H264 or MOV or both?
RudoFilm
16 Feb 2018 17:06
photojpeg? i prefer it for better quality and not a huge weight
and all stock platform acept it, guess
and all stock platform acept it, guess
Mizamook
16 Feb 2018 20:12
PJPEG is good, and yes, all accept it. The quality is not as good as ProResHQ, which is why I prefer that. It is as close to "archival" I'm ever likely to need, and I certainly cannot retain the 5,2K RAW clips from the Inspire 2!
The evidence is in banding/skies, sometimes. Also, I've done projects that had several round trips ... PJPEG does not stand up as well as ProResHQ (ProRes 422, the "lesser flavor" is about equal with PJPEG in inconclusive tests I've done, and ProRes LT is NOT GOOD DO NOT USE IT). Nowadays though I use Uncompressed, or some other lossless (Like Prores4444XQ) if I'm doing multiple round trips, but I still export to PRHQ for my finals, and to high quality h.264 for uploading.
Simple way to test any codec ... render to it, then import the result into a layer/track on the same project as your original with its color work. When you switch the top one on/off, you should see no difference. There is almost always a difference though .. for h.264, you only have to zoom in to 200% to see it, more zoom will show you the others ... even though no one actually sees it like that (usually) you have to know that these tiny pixel-level changes ARE quality loss. You want to minimise this. Find a balance you can live with, and if in doubt always make sure to retain a higher quality render for later just in case.
The evidence is in banding/skies, sometimes. Also, I've done projects that had several round trips ... PJPEG does not stand up as well as ProResHQ (ProRes 422, the "lesser flavor" is about equal with PJPEG in inconclusive tests I've done, and ProRes LT is NOT GOOD DO NOT USE IT). Nowadays though I use Uncompressed, or some other lossless (Like Prores4444XQ) if I'm doing multiple round trips, but I still export to PRHQ for my finals, and to high quality h.264 for uploading.
Simple way to test any codec ... render to it, then import the result into a layer/track on the same project as your original with its color work. When you switch the top one on/off, you should see no difference. There is almost always a difference though .. for h.264, you only have to zoom in to 200% to see it, more zoom will show you the others ... even though no one actually sees it like that (usually) you have to know that these tiny pixel-level changes ARE quality loss. You want to minimise this. Find a balance you can live with, and if in doubt always make sure to retain a higher quality render for later just in case.
SingaporeVideo
17 Feb 2018 14:59
Hi Mizamook, I am using Premier Pro. Thanks everyone for the inputs.