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Compression for “original” video files for editing?
I need advice on what to tell my clients to send me in terms of files types & compression settings when it comes to sending me video files. I’m generally editing in Final Cut Pro on a Mac at 320×240 square pixel, since I only do web delivery in Flash. My problem is that I need to tell my clients what format & compression scheme to send files to me. Ideally, of course, I’d like my working files to be Quicktime uncompressed, but that makes for huge files, and I have clients from all over the world, and even a 10 minute file at 320×240 is many gigabytes uncompressed, which is cumbersome to send even with ftp. Does anybody have advice on what format/compression would make a reasonable sized ftp-able file that wouldn’t degrade badly after being re-edited in FCP and recompressed into Flash flv? My clients are mostly on PCs, but also on Macs, so I suppose I’d ask for Quicktime and/or Windows, but does anybody have advice on compression scheme/settings?
Thanks–Tim
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Hi Tim,
Thinking that if my clients they would be shooting in 8 or 10b Unc but they couldn’t send me those files because they are too big. What format I would ask them?
Smallers files but not much degradation. And with out complicating the life or my customers as well.
Well I would ask them DVCPro50. Files are just doble weight than DV, and you keep in 422. Also PCs can export AVID DVCPro50.
The are other options like PhotoJPEG at 75% that keeps an incredible good quality (and 422) but I think they are not so easy for editing because you’ve got less RT options (Although I’ve never tried to edit PhotoJPEG). With FC6 may work better.
Any way as I tell you, unless somebody from this forum would give me a different advice, I would go for DVCPro50.
Cheers,
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Thanks, Rafael. I’ll give that a try. Is there a recommended audio compression setting you would recommend?
–Tim
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