[Frameworks] codecs

[Buck Bito - Movette]

Hi Gene,
For sure the Prores422 as long as your on a system that works fine with
it: iMovie, FCP, Premiere, Resolve, Vegas, among many others.

Prore422 is a proper intermediate codec and you can know what it is.
Whereas H.264 *can* be very high quality, knowing that it is H.264 does
not tell you very much about it, because it could be encoded in a near
infinite combination of bit rates, I frame frequencies, color encodings,
etc...

Because you have the same program in both codecs, you can tell that it was
not a super high quality H.264 encoding simply because it is less than
1/25 the size of the Prores.

-Sincerely,
--Buck Bito - Movette Film Transfer

On Wed, May 4, 2016 5:56 pm, Gene Youngblood wrote:
> Friends,
> I have on a hard drive two different encodings of a program I downloaded
> from Link TV. One codec is Apple ProRes 422 (100 GB), the other is H.264
> (3.52 GB). I don't remember why we did that, but my question is: which
> version is best as b-roll for a doc I'm making?
>
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