XDCam Ingest SOS

[Greg Ondera]

I think you would be surprised how many Windows users have QuickTime. It’s everywhere really. But I do agree it would be good to find out first.

The reason I advocate progressive is that whenever anything interlaced goes to the web or gets encoded in any way, which it sounds like it will, it will look fuzzy and soft, even when deinterlacing. Progressive keeps a bold color and crisper look to it, and it is such a difference and very noticeable. I am moving away from interlace entirely myself, but would like to hear reasoning why I should still use it. I even deinterlace my old interlaced programs as masters now.

Also if there is any way you can steer your client to H.264, I would. The quality over WMV is hands over fist much better. And in mp4 form it will play on practically anything. I would pitch for using Telestream’s Episode Pro for codecing H.264, although there are several good encoders out there.

So I have a little menu for that, if you want, and some of my formula has impact on WMV files as well, but doesn’t entirely translate. If you go to https://www.surgeontoday.org/faq/ and a little over half way down the page under “What are the best practices for preparing a video for upload?” that will tell you what I recommend. Playing with bitrates is the key to testing, but other considerations there should be followed as constants.

Greg Ondera
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