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H264 online – any experiences?
We’re shooting a large profile campaign on Canon 5D and we want to make sure the images look as good as they possibly can once they go to air. In my mind, creating editing proxies and then conforming back to the h264 files for Online would be the best possible route.
1. Anyone of the opinion that it would be better to go to a different codec first?
2. Anyone having any practical experiences grading h264 in Resolve? Quality / Speed / Performance?Regards,
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I tested H264 very early on. In my opinion – don’t. Just.. don’t..
I did a pretty massive job shot on 5D early in January. I had the photographer convert the H264 footage to ProRes 422 LT before editing, and then brought that 422 LT footage into Resolve as baked, 100% done clips and used Scene detection to cut it to pieces.
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Crunch all your 5D footage into ProRes using this:
https://rarevision.com/5dtorgb/
Like Ola said, working in H264 seems like a bad idea.
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My preference would be to crunch them into dpx frames..
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Even if you can edit H264, Like in Premiere Pro for example.
You will regret it sooner or later.
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Hi Helge!
I’ve found that H264 is actually quite stable in 7.1, but I would advise that you go ProRes from ingest to delivery.
Hope you’re well mate, let me know if you’ll be out at NAB
Jamie
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I am with Darin and the DPX files into folders.
You also want to assign time-code and reel IDs, maybe even before you do the ProRes files.
If you follow that route you will have perfect media to grade on and 100% working files for the editing which makes assemble afterward a breeze.A slice of color…
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What seems be the problem?
I have conformed many many projects straight from h264-movs and I haven’t had any issues.
Peter Eriksson
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