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working with Motion JPEG Formats. Suggestions?
I’ve been doing military video/photography for a few years and have been working with PP CS3. I normally would prefer to shoot video with a actual camcorder, but 90% of the time I find that carrying anything but a still camera is just not possible, due to the fact that I still have a job to do and try to snap vids as a secondary priority. I do have to take stills for reports etc..
With that said, I have had good success using still cameras that capture motion jpeg in QT 30fps format. The Sony that I used last year had horrible motion capture format that was near impossible to work with and I will never do that again.
So I find my options are to research the best motion capture format available to still cameras. i.e. QT, H.264, etc…
Or find a small camcorder that can take high-quality stills. A tough trade-off indeed.
Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
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Motion JPEG can be a great acquisition format, even at 60 / 70% quality, that’s what many stock footage vendor use to post footage online these days.
As long as it works in Premiere for you, I don’t see why you shouldn’t use it.
I believe It will take more space than say a comparable H.264 file for similar quality (I haven’t done side by side comparison myself), but I would personally stay away from H.264 for editing in Premiere. I’ve seen issues with jitter in some exports and other weird artifacts.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Vince,
Thanks for the reply. I have not worked with H.264, so that is good to know. At least that narrows down my search a little bit. I know alot of the newer small flash based camcorders and still cameras capture in H.264.
-Jeremy
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