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Re-Render Projects???
I’ve got a question and I’m hoping someone will be kind enough to answer it for me. I use GoPro camera’s for the majority of my camera work. I put the files in PP, and cut it down to the final version of the video and render it out to a H.264 format for uploading to social sites. My question is, if I wanted to add another piece of stock footage to the already compressed H.264 video, can I put the stock video with the H.264 video in one comp, and render them out with the same settings and not lose a noticeable difference in quality?
Thanks to anyone willing to help!
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As long as the sequence settings and source footage match there will be no noticeable deteriotation in quality.
Depending on how precious your cuts are I would get into the habit of exporting mastered (uncompressed) versions to combat this issue down the line.
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[Gary Verby] “Depending on how precious your cuts are I would get into the habit of exporting mastered (uncompressed) versions to combat this issue down the line.”
If storage space is not available for uncompressed files, consider using a lightly compressed production codec like ProRes, AVC-Intra, or DNxHD/MXF.
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If you edit an H264 and export it as H264 again there will be a drop in quality.
H264 is a highly compressed format, and though it is possible to concatenate multiple video streams together into one file, I don’t think Premiere is capable of it.
Studio – eMac G4, 256mb ram, Final Cut DV
Mobile – IBM R50, 1024mb ram, 80gb Hitachi Travelstar ATA133 7200rpm hard drive
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