[Daniel Low]

[elijah stanfield] “When I overlay the different compressed videos in premiere over top of the original and switch between them, the H.264 seems to be compressing more than the .m2V.”

Are you using exactly the same datarates for both the M2V and the H.264?

[elijah stanfield] “I would be interested in trying the JPEG, but all I can find is the Blackmagic motion JPEG and it comes out as an .avi. What’s the best way to export as a JPEG?”

You need to choose a Quicktime exporter and from there choose the PhotoJPEG codec – Sorry I don’t use Premiere so I cant give you the exact workflow.

I would advise against using either H.264 or M2V for content that is going to used for futher editing. Both are designed as delivery only codecs, unless you go for either very high bitrate (above 15Mb/s) or i-frame only output.

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[Daniel Low]

[elijah stanfield] “-H.264 is nice, but too lossy
-MPEG2(.m2v) looks even better, but what’s the likelihood of compatibility issues?
-Blackmagic .avi is really good too, but will there be compatibility issues? “

H.264 is much less lossy than MPEG-2 at the same datarates.

MPEG-2 will be compatible with ‘everything’ for years to come but you’ll need twice the amount of spece for the same quality over H.264.

Forget about Blackmagic.

Have you thought of using PhotoJPEG? It’s better than anything you have mentioned (at over 75% quality) and can be converted to what ever then ‘next guy’ needs with ease.

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[Daniel Low]

What is the client going to use the content for? (Broadcast/draft edits/DVD etc…)

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[Daniel Low]

[Kathleen Wielatz] “But, the old editor here says his old version of Media Cleaner software WILL let him specify dimensions other than 320×240 for mpeg1. hmmm”

He’s right but there’s no point in spending money on upgrading cleaner.

Episode is what you need and it’s miles ahead of cleaner.

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[Daniel Low]

A bit more information would help, e.g. what settings you are using for the audio?

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[Daniel Low]

I’d personally plump for using the Quicktime PhotoJPEG codec with the quality slider set to 100% – this gives you 4:4:4 colour.

1 second with the Animation codec is 20.3MB
1 second with the ‘None’ codec is 30MB
1 second with the PhotoJPEG codec is 7.7MB

You could also experiment with PNG.

More here:

https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/

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[Daniel Low]

You could be working with unnecessarily high (advanced) settings, try knocking them down a bit.

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[Daniel Low]

I was referring to the advanced settings like:

Motion estimation method and range
Sub pixel Motion estimation size
Number of ref frames and b frames
CABAC or CAVLC

etc

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[Daniel Low]

[Tim McLaughlin] “Stay away from Compressor for deinterlacing. It’s not a very good job and takes FOREVER”

[Tim McLaughlin] “Take your 29.97 interlaced footage, dump it into JES, and blend the fields. Goes in as 30i, comes out as 30p”

Your milage may vary but I’ve never had a situation where blending looks better than an adaptive, motion compensated deinterlace

https://www.100fps.com/

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[Daniel Low]

What settings did you use? Some of the advanced settings can increase times massively for not much increase in picture quality.

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