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best quality for broadcast w/ limited filesize
Hi all, I had an interesting problem yesterday, and I’ll probably have to do this again soon. I had 3 hours to compress & upload 6 minutes of footage (DV-NTSC) & had to keep it in the best quality possible for broadcast. I ended up using Compressor photojpeg-75, and knocked down the quality to medium-low, as my upload speeds are limited to 60K/sec. ( about 300Meg total filesize possible)
What’s the highest quality codec you’d use in this situation- I only had about 10mins to come up with a good codec, and I’m sure there’s a better choice than the one I made. – also I thought it was important to retain interlacing & source dimensions.
Calvin.
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3 Replies
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If you wanted to best retain interlacing, then MJPEGa or b would have been a better choice than Photo-JPEG. For 300MB and 6 minutes, your bitrate could be around 6500kbps, more than adequate to maintain high quality and efficiency at SD for almost any codec that supports proper interlacing. An all i-frame MPEG-2 encode, or MPEG-4 or even Apple’s Intermediate Codec (although AIC for movement between systems can be unadvised) are possible solutions. I probably wouldn’t encode content for to an interlaced output using Windows Media.
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Thanks, I’ll try some testing with those codecs
Calvin.
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In fact, I’d probably go with straight up MPEG-2 as the most efficient interlaced codec easily supported in QuickTime, assuming you can ingest it on the other end. It can look broadcast quality at 6.5 Mbps for a wide variety of sources.
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