novicemonk
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I have a long-winded question, but hopefully it's simple to answer. Over the years I have shot a lot of "behind the scenes" footage from films I've worked on. The footage was shot on a variety of non professional cameras. Sometimes in the past snippets of my footage has been used in documentaries, DVD special features, as inserts in interviews etc. I'm sure you've seen crewmembers' camcorder footage cut into such docus....
I wish to keep a folder/hard drive of selected footage taken over the years, to provide to editors if needed. I don't want to share the original footage as a) file sizes can be large/long b) I might only wish to share/make public a few seconds of a given clip.
In the days of miniDV it was easy. I could capture the footage, trim if needed, then export an identical DVavi file, confident that an editor could use it.
Now I have footage from an HDV camera, and 720p and 1080p footage from Sanyo Xactis, a Kodak playsport and Canon DSLR. I use Adobe Premiere CS5 on a PC, so can't output a ProRes file. So my question is what codec/compression settings would you recommend I export to? I would hope that any pro editor would be able to see & use the footage in their HD project easily, whether in Final Cut, Adobe, Avid. I would hope that the quality would be a fair match for the original files (usually shot in less than ideal settings), but would want to avoid uncompressed or unnecessarily large sizes. Is some variety of MP4 the answer?
I can't see me resizing clips. I imagine I'd leave the 720p at 720, and if an editor needed it to be upscaled, they would do it. I live in PAL country, and am not averse to converting all to 25fps - is that unwise?
Please advise.
I wish to keep a folder/hard drive of selected footage taken over the years, to provide to editors if needed. I don't want to share the original footage as a) file sizes can be large/long b) I might only wish to share/make public a few seconds of a given clip.
In the days of miniDV it was easy. I could capture the footage, trim if needed, then export an identical DVavi file, confident that an editor could use it.
Now I have footage from an HDV camera, and 720p and 1080p footage from Sanyo Xactis, a Kodak playsport and Canon DSLR. I use Adobe Premiere CS5 on a PC, so can't output a ProRes file. So my question is what codec/compression settings would you recommend I export to? I would hope that any pro editor would be able to see & use the footage in their HD project easily, whether in Final Cut, Adobe, Avid. I would hope that the quality would be a fair match for the original files (usually shot in less than ideal settings), but would want to avoid uncompressed or unnecessarily large sizes. Is some variety of MP4 the answer?
I can't see me resizing clips. I imagine I'd leave the 720p at 720, and if an editor needed it to be upscaled, they would do it. I live in PAL country, and am not averse to converting all to 25fps - is that unwise?
Please advise.
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