• Storage & Archiving

  H264 vs Other for archiving

  Posted by Robert Withers on December 14, 2018 at 5:47 pm

  Hi all,
  I’m on a list for media archives and libraries and many librarian archivists don’t seem to know much about digital codecs(!).
  I don’t know more than a little (;-)) I archive my projects in ProRes.
  One question that comes up when people are trying to make files that are small but have good, recoverable quality . . . are there h265 or h265 codecs that will preserve quality as well as large files like ProRes or DNxHD or other ? Or other good codecs that are small files with recoverable quality?
  I know files like ProRes and DNxHD are big to enable frame-accurate editing, but they are often converted from smaller camera files that must be of the highest quality, no? Is there a way to reverse this process?
  There are long and thorough answers to this I’m sure but would be grateful for any rules of thumb or top of mind.
  I bothers me that I don’t know.
  Thanks,
  Robert

  Robert Withers

  Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

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