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OT: Is H.264 editable?
I was thinking about putting some old Video 8 stuff on disks for ease of access etc. I have been looking at various codecs etc to use, and of course the new “standard” is H.264.
It is quite unlikely that I will edit this stuff in the future, but you never know, one day a Wedding may happen and someone would want some old baby footage to emberass the bride for a presentation.
The footage in question is relatively poor quality Video 8 footage which actually makes it less important that perfect quality is maintained. The footage is already so crappy that a little more due to re-encoding will not make that much of a difference.
So, to the question. If I store this footage encoded at a reasonable quality with a H.264 encoder, will I be able to edit it in the future (tomorrow in Vegas would be ideal)? Editing would only involve cutting, not advanced stuff. I know MPEG-2 is not perfect for this, but it can be made better with more key-frames. I assume, with the higher compression, the same goes for H.264. Is H.264 a reasonable archive format given the above or is it just a distribution format?
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Terje A. Bergesen -
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I, personally, treat all variants of MPEG as destination formats. To keep something I may use in the future, I render to DV-AVI and, for storage, print to tape.
Edward Troxel
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