[Holger Kamke]

Thx, that was very helpful! Tried a few encodings and it is really indistinguishable. For my purpose it’s totally perfect.

[Holger Kamke]

Hi all,

I’m kind of reviving this discussion because I wanted o specifically know if there is really any other downside other than h.264 not being optimal for editing..

My use case is this: A project is finished, exported and delivered to the costumer years ago. Its not very likely that I will ever be using the footage again for something else. Is there a better format/codec than h.264 to keep the original media recoded to a smaller file size just as an absolute emergency backup (wich again: I’m probably never gonna use)…

How do you proceed with ages old original footage that will probably never be touched again?

Thanks for your replies