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Best Staging Export Format?
If I render footage in a sequence to a video file and then subsequently apply that rendered clip to another sequence, what is the best clip export format to use without losing much video quality? FYI I would be doing this instead of nested sequences for a number of reasons, including improving editing performance and/or working around occasional sync glitches in PP.
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Well, for a PC it would be uncompressed AVI, but the file would be HUGE! You could create an uncompressed MOV, but same issue. However, you wouldn’t lose video quality.
Beyond that, you can choose a codec you feel comfortable with (MP4, MPEG2, etc.) and place the bitrate up to the highest possible and that would help prevent too much quality loss. But be careful to watch your clip afterwards as you sometimes will notice odd abnormalities depending on what you are doing. I just went through this type of situation recently and when my ending came up (which was done in AE), I would see my smoke have odd trails. I had to jump up the quality in order to make it look as it should – I was using MP4 so I could get something up on YouTube.
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