Help to sync audio with video

using 25fps because I am in europe.
Yea, gonna use clapper also, wanted to know if it is still recommended to convert from h.264 and if so, to what ,to retain maximum quality and also being easiest to work with?
 
I will say agai your asking sound guys about the best video format??? We will all have opinions but do you really think we are the most informed sources?
 
Noiz2 said:
I will say agai your asking sound guys about the best video format??? We will all have opinions but do you really think we are the most informed sources?
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Depends. When I was doing sound design, I was really particular about video formats, in terms of what was given to me and what I would work with. But that's just related to my end of things, not the final end product.
 
MarcusarilliuS_IRL said:
using 25fps because I am in europe.
Yea, gonna use clapper also, wanted to know if it is still recommended to convert from h.264 and if so, to what ,to retain maximum quality and also being easiest to work with?
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I'm still debating about using AVCHD direct out of my GH-1 for editing. While the drag-and-drop use is appealing, my current computer is barely able to play the media in CS5, a significantly better rendition than in previous versions of Premiere.

But the workflow that transcodes from the native AVCHD to some standard intermediary codec, such as Apple ProRes, or Avid's DNxHD may be better for moving between such applicaitons as Premiere and Affter Effects.

Look to the forum section on your editing tools to get a better idea about how to set up your work flow.

Using the H.264 directly would be 'ok' if all you were doing was simple editing, as current NLEs should only decompress/recompress for the final rendering pass. If you are going to be doing 'heavy' compositing, or moving between applications, going to a more 'playable' codec, and a codec that does not compress with significant loss, then transcoding from H.264 would be recommended.
 
Noiz2 said:
MOV is not a format. It's anything wrapped in a Quick Time wrapper. mpeg? Maybe you mean MJpeg? DV could be fine but it's only SD so not a great choice if your in HD also it has a less than great color space so not great if your doing green screen or color correction etc.

If your on a Mac then Prores is a good choice. It used to be a generally bad choice to edit in h.264 even if your box could handle it. I'm not sure if this is still a big issue. It might be and maybe asking somebody like Stu Maschwitz would get you a "real" answer. The problem is that questions like that are a moving target. A couple of years ago it would be an absolute no no to edit h.264. Now in CS5 I know you can but is it a good idea? If you post this in the video sections then I'm sure you would get a lot of replies and they would probably be strong in each direction so???? The best thing is to really know what your flow is and bias the answers by those with experience that are trying to do the same thing. You will always get some hobbyist who will be working in some weird way and swear by it. And it can be REALLY hard to tell who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't. So if your doing wedding videos pay more attention to the wedding video folks than to the hobbyists or the low budget feature folks because they both have different agendas. You also don't want to focus too much on what the full priced features are doing because that also is a different agenda.
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I was just saying... H264, MPEG, AVi, whatever....

And for sound.. quality is not as important as it is for color correction...
 
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