http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: format - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:14:47 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/xf100-vs-imovie-11#post-73769 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:35:08 +0000 MediaFish 73769@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The only editor that I have found that works 100% without converting is Premiere Pro CS5.5.  I went the route of trying to convert etc and yes some work but nothing is like working with the MXF file natively (no plug-ins and snap-ins or converting) - load the file drop it on the sequence timeline and off you go.  iMovie is geared towards the consumer world. The xf100 is considered a pro camera with a highend file format.  With all that said there is a product I have seen <a href="http://www.aunsoft.com/import-mxf-p2-mxf-to-imovie-edit-mxf-in-imovie/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aunsoft.com/import-mxf-p2-mxf-to-imovie-edit-mxf-in-imovie/</a> that will work for what you are trying to do.  They have a trial version you can test with.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/xf100-vs-imovie-11#post-73767 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:49:47 +0000 Kenkyusha 73767@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Have you looked at free things like iMedia Converter or Handbrake?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/xf100-vs-imovie-11#post-73756 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:57:09 +0000 valleyboy 73756@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>OK, I lied. The real question is, is there some way to use the Canon MXF format (from a Canon XF100) to work with iMovie 11. I don't think I need FCP, as I am doing a simple documentary, with single camera, mostly interviews, nothing fancy at all.</p> <p>The Canon website lists FCP compatibility, but that adds another 10%+ at least to the price of the camera, plus a whole new learning curve (i.e. massive time sink) I'd rather not go through.</p> <p>I have found some 3rd party converters that claim to do the job, and they aren't expensive ($35), but on closer inspection, the software is actually coded in Russia, and I have a bad feeling about getting infected with a virus on my Mac.</p> <p>Any experience and/or advice with this ? Please spare me the "man up and use a real pro editor" advice. I'm not a pro, I already have a complicated day job, I have limited time to spare learning another tool I mostly don't need just to get file compatibility.</p> <p>Help !!!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/audio-format-preferences#post-72563 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:26:34 +0000 robGRAUERT 72563@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>16-bit 48khz is pretty standard when it comes to audio for video.</p> <p>Your wrapper is dependent on your software. For example, FCP prefers .aiff</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/audio-format-preferences#post-72556 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:16:07 +0000 EarlC 72556@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>AIFF for music</p> <p>MP3 narrative, sound FX, other that doesn't require exacting clarity of musical tracks.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/audio-format-preferences#post-72553 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:01:17 +0000 Simon 72553@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Quick survey.... When you import audio into a video project, what format(s) do you prefer?</p> <p>Typical project: eg. wedding video, corporate presentation, etc.<br />Audio content: eg. music, voice, sound FX, etc.<br />File type: eg. WAV / AIF / MP3, etc.<br />Sample rate: eg. 44.1khz, 48khz, etc.<br />Channels: eg. Mono / Stereo / Surround, etc.<br />Resolution: eg. 8-bit, 16-bit, etc.</p> <p>Obviously, this varies hugely from project to project. So, consider the question for the most regular type of video work you do - a 'typical' project.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70920 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:51:36 +0000 composite1 70920@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm surprised that station only dealt with those two formats. Most outfits even after converting over to HD still take at least Mini-dv tape shot in HD format. I've also delivered a digital master on a harddrive and flash media (CF and SD cards.) </p> <p>'Bumping' as Earl described is a viable choice since it's impractical to go out and purchase a Beta-SP/SX or HDcam recorder if you're not shooting in those formats. Tough part is finding an outfit that keeps those formats on hand and won't charge your first-born to get conversions done.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70918 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:19:15 +0000 EarlC 70918@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What they mean is that whatever graphics, titles, etc. are included in a program submitted on any of their accepted formats should only be in the area of the screen that would be visible "safely" on a 4:3 (or SD, non-widescreen) area of the screen. Imagine a green or red box or outline about 20 percent smaller (from the edges of your standard television screen) where you'd put titles/graphics so that they would FIT all televisions and not be clipped off because somebody isn't viewing with a wide-screen unit.</p> <p>It is somewhat antiquated for any broadcast or narrowcast station to limit acceptance of outside production to ONLY HDV or HDcam, and especially the Beta SP tape, but over time I've had to go to a local shop that would "bump over" my master to Beta because that's the way it is. Been a long time though, and most recently I've bicycled production to local cable channels using MiniDV, and even occasionally DVD, but admittedly not HD.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70915 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:49:18 +0000 spnplg1 70915@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>This is the reply I received from the cable station: “We accept HD format on HDcam or HDV.  Also programs in 16:9 with all graphics 4:3 title safe on beta sp or beta sx format.”</p> <p> </p> <p>A couple of questions:</p> <p> </p> <p>I’m shopping for a video camera. Am I correct to assume what ever format camera I get, I would then copy it to a HDV tape?</p> <p> </p> <p>What is meant by: “Also programs in 16:9 with all graphics 4:3 title safe on beta sp or beta sx format.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks for the help. I know I have a lot to learn in the next 6 months! Glad I found this site!&lt;span id="_marker"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70865 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:08:58 +0000 Charles Schultz 70865@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I went to a conference at the beginning of the year to discuss just this topic and only a few stations shoot with SD anymore, they are all migrating to HD. </p> <p>I would recommend using an HD camera but keep all the action in the safe zone for SD, that way no matter what format the station uses it can still be used.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70864 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:59:36 +0000 robGRAUERT 70864@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>"That probably has some to do with what video format do most of the networks/cable stations prefer?"</p> <p>No. Networks compress the hell out of video. You want to be working with the least compressed video you can afford so it holds up in post production, then deliver what the network wants. You have to contact them for that info. </p> <p>So, what you are shooting determines what you're going to shoot with. Not necessarily the delivery specs</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tv-video-format#post-70863 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:41:57 +0000 spnplg1 70863@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;I'm planning on producing a fishing show to air in the spring of 2013. I'm planning on filming the spring and summer of 2012. I'll be doing all my research and homework to make this happen between now and next spring. The first thing I'm doing is looking into what video camera to get. That probably has some to do with what video format do most of the networks/cable stations prefer? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67448 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:31:49 +0000 birdcat 67448@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Play nice kids.</p> <p>When I need to create sub-project files that have good quality that I can edit (read little or no compression) I usually choose AVI for SD and MOV for HD.  </p> <p>For final disc output, for SD (DVD) it's MPG and for HD (BD) it's M2V, with AC3 for audio for both.</p> <p>for the web, I don't render out using H.264 directly but use QuickTime pro to create my videos (MP4 with H.264 for YouTube &amp; Vimeo).</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67444 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:12:23 +0000 Kyalami 67444@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>yeah right? In what container? MPEG2?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67440 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:30:11 +0000 XTR-91 67440@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>h.264</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67437 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:38:27 +0000 rs170a 67437@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>i can't buy another drive in the time frame for this project...</em></p> <p>Why not?  Do you live in the boonies?</p> <p>Any big box store like Best Buy, Future Shop or Costco has 1 TB. drives for well under $100.</p> <p>The only time I render using a different codec is when I'm getting a project ready for delivery, be it a DVD, the web or something else.</p> <p>Otherwise all files stay in their original format.</p> <p>I know that's not the answer you want to hear but that's always been my philosophy and I see no reason to change it.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67436 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:12:31 +0000 Kyalami 67436@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>which format would be closest to dv avi in terms of quality but as small as possible? i can't buy another drive in the time frame for this project so finding a smaller codec is the answer. </p> <p>i used to shoot on a handheld 3ccd jvc everio which had a hard disk and recorded in MPEG2 dvd; quality wasn't bad. would it be a good format?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67433 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:42:51 +0000 rs170a 67433@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I personally wouldn't resize the footage from your Panasonic as you lose the ability to zoom in on it if you want to.</p> <p>I deliver in SD (DVD) but do all my shooting &amp; editing in HD as I love the ability to zoom and pan if I want to without losing quality.</p> <p>Having said all that, if your 720x480 footage is DV-AVI from a miniDV camcorder, that's the format I'd recommend.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67426 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:27:50 +0000 Kyalami 67426@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Agreed, but since I have to downconvert to 720x480 DV Wide anyway, I was looking for the best size/quality codec possible. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67421 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:27:12 +0000 rs170a 67421@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Any time you render, you lose quality. For that reason alone, it's always best to stay with the original format. Hard drives are very cheap these days (2 TB. models are under $100) so buy one or more and keep your video quality at it's best.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-format-for-hours-of-interviews#post-67420 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:46:54 +0000 Kyalami 67420@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Im editing a video for a local school's band, and am now in the process of doing interviews with some of its members. I am shooting using a Panasonic AGHMC170 in 1440x1080 HD, then downconverting to 720x480 NTSC DV Widescreen as the rest of the footage is this way. However, NTSC DV Wide takes up too much space, and the interviews are about 20 mins. </p> <p>What high-quality format can I use that's smaller but will still prove easy to edit?I was  thinking maybe MPEG2 DVD, or some sort of MP4? Thanks!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-65025 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:09:02 +0000 PJ McConnell 65025@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Oh wow, that's a lot of useful information! Thank you on the comment on my videos, and I whole heartedly agree with you about lenses/higher fps and white balance. But I only own a Flip UltraHD camera which has no support for any manual settings and probably no lenses worth buying. Money, unfortunately, is tight in these times! For future/ more serious videos I will most likely be borrowing the local TV stations camera which shoots in 1080p AVCHD.</p> <p>I will be trying the AVC encoding method you first mentioned very soon!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64750 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:26:38 +0000 kuemmet 64750@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Oh, I wanted to say it looks as if you are off to a good start as far as an eye for editing.  You are way ahead of me when I was young.  Good job so far and keep working at it.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64749 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:08:36 +0000 kuemmet 64749@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I noticed a few things on your video channel.  I believe I found it here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePJMcConnell" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePJMcConnell</a>.</p> <p>Lighting, Angle, and Composition all still apply to video. Don't use the cameras auto settings. Learn how lenses (especially the one on your camera) react to different light.  Learn the manual white balance.  </p> <p>Lots of rapid motion will require a higher data rate, and shoot it a 30 or even 60 fps.</p> <p>Be patient.  Rendering HD for true quality takes time ... lots of time.  </p> <p>I would try to re-render <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnmPe2OcXI">Autumn Adventure</a>to AVCHD at full bandwidth (probably around 17 mbs). Keep it under 18 MBS for saving to DVD to play on a Blu Ray.</p> <p>Here is a Tutorial on doing so in Vegas<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=10&amp;ved=0CHMQtwIwCQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F15648561&amp;rct=j&amp;q=vegas%20render%20avchd&amp;ei=KWctTe7xLoG78gajt5HgCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9WqFXVkEHQAexFhmnxRgiNFsiiA&amp;sig2=l9U00rMtq-mkwQiOudWD6Q&amp;cad=rja"><em> Rendering</em> 1080p60 <em>AVCHD</em> from Sony <em>Vegas</em> for <strong>...</strong></a>.</p> <p>Good luck ... and good shooting.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64741 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:33:33 +0000 kuemmet 64741@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I voted other above.  I like and my personal preference is rendering a copy back to AVCHD.  I can burn the file to DVD to play on a Blu Ray hassle free, and use the file to upload to Youtube.  This is if I have time.  This process is time consuming, ads and extra rendering, and takes Youtube a while to re-encode.  But is seems to look the best to me.  Here is a sample below.  It is in 360p here, but still looks good.  I noticed that some of the H.264 encoded files don't seem to re-encode as well.  They look good in 720, but at the lower resolutions, not so much.  As up here in Wisconsin the fastest connection one can get is still pretty crappy, I know most of my videos are not being viewed in HD and I want them to look as good as possible in the lower resolution settings. One will notice that the resolution settings on the video will go all the way to 1080p.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXDxNlh4Eac">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXDxNlh4Eac</a></p> <p>If I am in a hurry, I have a few different things I will do dependingt on the story and how fast I want to get it out.  </p> <p>For absolute breaking footage, I will upload the raw AVCHD (M2TS) file with no editing or re-encoding.  This is just to get the footage up fast.</p> <p>Example here ..</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDo4BUujyjI&amp;hd=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDo4BUujyjI&amp;hd=1</a></p> <p>If I have some time but I want to get the story out (editing, rendered, uploaded, and then trans-coded) fast, I will render out to a 720p h.264 setting ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprD-ih_FSg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprD-ih_FSg</a></p> <p>... or if for say CNN Ireport, a custom setting I have that I call HD Light.  Basically, it's an H.264 that is set just higher than standard 480p.  I like 800X450, at about 2.5 Mbps data-rate. It is just big enough to appear to look like the video came from a full HD file, but since the providor or server will not play or display HD (Like CNN Ireport, you local news local boy video page, ETC) it doesn't pay to take the time or bandwidth to send them an HD video file just to have downgrade it to 480.</p> <p>Here is an example on Vimeo, and one on CNN.</p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/15980636">http://vimeo.com/15980636</a></p> <p><a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-528057">http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-528057</a></p> <p>Well good luck and good rendering ... Ah ... that didn't sound right.  Well, just  .. good luck and good shooting.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64673 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:36:14 +0000 XTR-91 64673@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No. Youtube recognizes and translates the format, outside of your browser, and it recognizes just about everything.</p> <p>I've never had luck streaming h.264</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64662 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:25:39 +0000 PJ McConnell 64662@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I think I will continue to use MP4 in the future unless these polls change dramatically in some way then. </p> <p>Is h.264 mp4s what most html5 players use natively today?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64622 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:19:10 +0000 XTR-91 64622@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>h.264</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64601 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:30:58 +0000 Camtomlee 64601@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Personally, I export from editors as an image sequence (usually .png or .tiff) and let Quicktime Pro (about $30) do all the encoding to MP4. I use H.264 (the same codec YouTube uses). If it's 720p (1280x720) I set the data rate to 4096 kbits/sec, which is slightly over the bitrate youtube uses anyway. If you find a video you like the look of on YouTube, right click it and press "Show video info". There's usually some good info on there, like framerate and bitrate.</p> <p> </p> <p>An example of video exported this way- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SIkOxkxXBU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SIkOxkxXBU</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Good luck!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-youtube-format#post-64600 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:55:05 +0000 robGRAUERT 64600@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Youtube supports 4K? Who even has a 4K monitor?</p>