[Cian Daly]

Thanks for the quick responses guys, especially to an unclear email written at 4am.

So, DNxHD is the way I will go. Tested an export last night and was amazed by the encoding speed even with my meager system.

What is still puzzling me is the ‘match sequence settings’ option in the export window. Lets take a hypothetical scenario: I want to import a Canon 5DMKII video file, which conventional wisdom says is a H264 file, wrapped in a .mov wrapper.

I make no changes to this file, and want to export it to the same format and codec, aiming to have a file as close to the original as possible. So, I’m just passing this file through my system in effect.

Now, if I use the DSLR preset, and select ‘match sequence settings’, the wrapper appears as MPEG preview, not .mov. I have never heard of an MPEG preview wrapper. The codec appears as ‘MPEG I frame’.

Logically I would think you just use another .mov wrapper and select the H264 codec. Now, upon researching the official standards of H264 a little bit more, I have discovered that MPEG 4/H264/AVCHD appear to all be the same codec, or similar variants, according to Wikipedia.

Does this mean that I could also use an AVCHD timeline for dealing with H264 footage just as effectively as the DSLR preset?

Regards,

Cian

[Cian Daly]

What about if I am capturing to a different codec from a HDV camera or deck via firewire? Will this always be the way? Thanks