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Best HD codec to transfer video files over the internet
I will be working with a client who lives in another country. He wants to send me their videos to be edited and color corrected and I was wondering which would be the best codec that would give me the best quality with a small file size. He will put the files inside my FTP. This is for broadcast and are 10 TV programs that run for 2 minutes each.
What would be your codec choice for this kind of work?Daniel Griffin
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6 Replies
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I’d say H264, but wait for opinions of people with more expertise than me
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H.264 is going to retain the best quality to filesize ratio but make sure they encode the files with the highest quality they can. Then transcode to ProRes before y
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I would say h.264 at a bit rate of 6mb unless you or they have a huge Dropbox.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Sorry, iPhone and hit wrong button. Continued…you edit. You’ll loose some of the quality from the original files! If they’re shooting on digital media, just have then send you the raw files, and transcode when you get them!
I would definitely suggest you have them buy some 32gb thumb drives and mail them though! Much more reliable and no moving parts like hard drives. Maybe have them FTP the first episodes footage, then mail the rest on USB jump drives.
That my two cents!
Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions -
Another format to suggest for transfer? -FedEx…
E=MC2+/-2db
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Yup….and using USB Thumb Drives will help negate possible data corruption since they have no moving parts.
Posted from iPad, please excuse typos!
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