Footage vs Sequence Presents vs Exports

[Vince Becquiot]

[Lori Savitch] “1. Should we always choose sequence settings that match our footage – and just export according to specs?? If the frame size of our footage is 1280 x 1080, and we export as 1920 x 1080 – is this problematic?? (It looks ok…)
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You advantage in choosing a 1080 sequence with 720 footage would be for graphics/titles which would be native. Incidentally, this is usually where most people first notice any up-conversion. Otherwise, there is obviously no need to up-convert unless the client requests it, and it may in fact affect quality slightly, especially with the added compression overhead.

[Lori Savitch] “2. Should we make sure to shoot everything according to our clients specs — so that the footage matches the sequence setting — which matches the specs? The thing is – we have other needs for this video – we could never satisfy everyone!! “

By all means, yes. At least the highest resolution. For frame rate, I would go with 29.97. Easier to remove frames that to add some.

[Lori Savitch] “Is it even POSSIBLE to shoot 1920 x 1080 with a P2 Camera? I can’t see why not …. (I’m not doing the shooting.) But then, there’s no DVCProHD sequence setting with 1920 v. Should I use the AVCHD sequence setting?????
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1280 x 1080 with DVC Pro HD is simply anamorphic, it’s still is 1920 x 1080 square pixels. But you certainly could pick an AVCHD sequence if you had mixed footage. It just means that your DVCPro footage would not be native and that could create preview issues.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Lori Savitch]

Thank you kindly Vince. Happy new year to you and all the Creative Cow geniuses!

-Lori

[Aggelos Poulis]

vince hello.. i wanted to ask please:
i am shooting videos with my 60d eos canon,and my go pro hero2,
i always shoot clips that contain fast motion,action sports etc, so as i noticed after some tests, i can see that shooting in 60 fps 720 is smoother than 30 fps 720…you can see also here:

my question is:
in premiere pro cs5.5 is better to open a sequence of 720p 60 fps or a sequence of 720p 30 fps ( i dont care for slow motion) i just want to have smooth motion in my whole action video..
and also should i export my video to 60 fps if i use the 60 fps sequence setting?or 60fps sequence setting exported to 30fps cause i mainly want my videos for youtube that it is also compressed them to 30..

i want a good compination of smooth motion,good quality,and best youtube performance and smooth motion.

to tell you the truth i did some tests using all possible combinations but i didnt see any difference,maybe is my self or my imagination? what do you think?
should i always check render ad maximum quality?

thanks and sorry for the big comment..

[Vince Becquiot]

[Aggelos Poulis] “in premiere pro cs5.5 is better to open a sequence of 720p 60 fps or a sequence of 720p 30 fps ( i dont care for slow motion) i just want to have smooth motion in my whole action video..”

Yes, as long as you can also post it in a place that supports 60P.

720 60P is often used by sports broadcasters like ESPN for that exact reason. Sadly, as far as I can tell, it won’t be any use for Youtube. It may be worth posting on their forum to see if they are planning to support it in the near future. The obvious drawback however is compression requirements. Twice as many frames.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Aggelos Poulis]

“The obvious drawback however is compression requirements. Twice as many frames.”

so to make it clear. for YOUTUBE PURPOSE only , to have the better quality and smooth motion is better to :
if my footage is recorded to 60p then:

a) my sequence to be 60p and export it to 60p
b) my sequence to be 60p and export it to 30p
c)my sequence to be 30p and export it to 30p

(for all the 3 above we take as concern that youtube will compress it to 30p again if is 60p or keep it to 30p if my video is also 30p)

i am asking generally if the better 60p export will be worse at last cause youtube will conver it to 30,or will be the same at last if my 30p export will remain 30p from youtube…those 2 30p (the one from 60p export,and the original export 30p will be the same quality?)

just tell me a) b) or c) from my above examples.
thanks again.

[Vince Becquiot]

At this point, if you have 60P sequences, I would export as 60P. I’m sure Youtube will eventually support 60P (I think it did for a while), and hopefully your 60P videos will be automatically replaced at that point (wishful thinking).

As far as compression goes, I would export to H.264 at above 15 Mb/s.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Aggelos Poulis]

thank you!