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HD Codecs
I’m having a dubbing house take a Panasonic D5 tape and hardware encode to a QT file that I’m going to use to create a MPEG4 (H.264) for Encore. I’m going to encode in premiere and use the main concept encoder plug in.
My question is what codec to tell the dubbing house to use when creating the QT file. Does it need to be one of the codecs that say they’re HD or is any codec essentially capable of making an HD file? Can they just capture using the H.264 QT codec and then there should be less change between the QT and the final MPEG4 (H.264)?
Thanks,
Alex
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1 Reply
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Don’t get a compressed format and then compress it again. That will degrade the quality of the image when you make the encoreDVD product.
If they insist on it being QT ask for uncompressed. If they can do AVI – uncompressed again. The lease amount of compression for the original clip is always best.
H.264 is heavily compressed and looks better than MPEG2 in most cases, but compression is not good if it has to recompress.
– JOn
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