hi greg - i dealt with something similar once and went with DV. you're leaning against HD, DV is a stable format that will allow u to 'go native' (or i guess stay native:)) with one or two of your sources (and should be higher quality - at least in terms of compression than the others). i think f4v is a type of flash video. that's my 2 cents.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM, greg <e...@eklektro.net> wrote: > > > Hello, i could use some help regarding video shot from a variety of > sources, > which i'd like to bring all together and edit on Final Cut Pro 6, > ultimately output and compressed to a few different formats: > quicktime H264 for my own website (and for iPod), flash for YouTube, > and then of course the ability to burn to DVD in high quality. The > output/compression shouldn't be a problem for me. Its the choice of > codec for importing and working with multiple sources that seems > confounding (!)... wanting to maintain decent quality without too many > rendering stages, and not bogging down the computer... > > my multiple sources include: > - Canon HV30 mini-DV camcorder, shooting in either HD or DV mode > - Sony TRV950 mini-DV camcorder in DV mode > - shooting blog-type video in Quicktime from my Apple MacBook's > internal camera, which uses h264 640x480 millions 16.7 FPS / AAC > stereo 44.1 > - capturing to disk from Wirecast video streaming software, which uses > a strange codec suffix i've never seen before "f4v", but it think its > also h264.. and the highest-quality option i could choose came out as > 720x540 millions 22.1 FPS / AAC stereo 44.1 (wondering where these > arbitrary frame per second rates come from?) > - a friend's portable video camera which puts out "Apple MPEG-2 SD > Camcorder Video 720x576 (1024x576) 16-bit Little Endian 48k"... > (pretty low quality) > > I'd imagine that i have to pick one codec to edit with and then batch- > process all my clips ahead of time, and then import them into FCP. I > have a recent MacBook Pro 2.93ghz and firewire 800 hard drives, so > processing power is probably not too much of an issue; however, HD > footage probably only makes up 25% of my clips, so i don't think its > necessary to choose HD as my codec of choice (as it tends to take > quite a while to render!)... Any suggestions? > > Part 2: Sometimes i'd like to simply edit the Quicktime/Macbook or > Wirecast H264 video all by itself, within its native codec, so there's > less chance of loss (and less time converting files). Using Final Cut > 6, when you drag a captured clip into a sequence, it 'sometimes' > prompts you to see if you want to change the sequence settings to that > of the clip... cool... > but: for some reason it still often requires a rending stage, and its > usually the audio.... weird... why? is AAC a problem? > also, sometimes the imported movie has serious audio drift, which gets > worse the later you go in the file...and so it doesn't appear like an > easy shift would fix it. Any idea what's going on here? > > Thanks in advance for any help, suggestions or links > > Greg > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
