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should i be using .mov lossless???
ok i have buddy that needs to give me some files for re-editing. i work on a pc using vegas and after effects (i go back and forth alot between the two programs).
now my friend works on a mac and he has footage from imoive and FCP.
now my question is should he give me the footage as .mov or .mov lossless?
when i was in school we worked on macs and i was always told to simply keep everything in quicktime formatt but then i come to learn about lossless and like i said before i go back and forth between my NLE and AE (i mean a lot). so should i always make sure im using a lossless or is simply having a .mov good enough??sorry if i sound stupid 🙂
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As always, lossles or uncompressed files can be better quality, but come at the cost of much bigger file sizes. For a large project, this means you may have a storage problem as well as playback problems.
Why don’t you try out a sample of each and see what you end up with?
Gary Kleiner
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if it helps, Quicktime ANIMATION & PNG are both lossless codecs
visually but not uncompressed. PNG files will be
much smaller than ANIMATION but will take longer
to render.lots of folks use PNG for this reason.
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so can i render out PNG in vegas and it does add compression right? because i dont want to lose anything as i go in and out of the programs alot.
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I just tried this with Vegas4 and it does indeed work.
the quality will be lossless meaning you won’t lose
any quality.just as good as uncompressed but smaller file sizes.
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