No, the source material is stored losslessly. Many different effects will be applied to the source material to make the moving images look the way the director wants them to look.
The creation of the original video is separate from the distribution of the video. In distribution the video will be encoded to many formats and many bitrates to support playback on as many devices at as many network speeds as possible.
The distributed video will never exactly match the original. There simply isn't the bandwidth. The goal of video encoding is always just to make it look good enough.
The creation of the original video is separate from the distribution of the video. In distribution the video will be encoded to many formats and many bitrates to support playback on as many devices at as many network speeds as possible.
The distributed video will never exactly match the original. There simply isn't the bandwidth. The goal of video encoding is always just to make it look good enough.