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A good format for video
I work as a videographer and recently I shot a wedding now I can’t edit it at work and have to take it homw whats the best format to store it so it will fit one 2 or three dvd’s to take it home
it’s shot in pal widescreen and I’ve encoded it into mpeg2 and I’m not really hapy with the quality is there a better format that I can encode to ?I don’t have fire wire at home so I’m unable to capture it there.
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If it’s HD footage then Mpeg 2 would probably be your only choice, especially to get it on dvd’s, (I capture all my HD as mpeg 2) but if its Standard Definition then I would use Avi. or .Mov. What is the running time of the footage and do you use Mac or PC?
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standard def, I use a PC and the running time is two tapes of about an hour each I’m exporting to mov as we speak hope it works. I’s taking much longer than mpeg2
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If you’re using PC I would use .Avi. I don’t have a lot of success with .Mov on PC. I suggested both because I wasn’t sure what you were using. But try .Avi 1st. Hope you get this before you do all .Mov…
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Will do thanks for all your help Danny
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Well, you’ve got 2 hours of footage… that’s about 25gb of standard definition DV video if my math’s right.
I would maybe borrow/buy a cheap external USB hard drive and put everything on that… that way you avoid using a pile of 5 or 6 DVDs plus all the encoding time/quality loss.
If you’re dealing with Premiere use DV AVIs.
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That would be the thing to do in a perfect world but as it stands I think I’ll use the mpeg’s and then relink the files to dv’s at work and export the final. Would that work ??
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