[Hidden-tech] Which format to use in final cut for Feature Length documentary?

Tom Novelli tnovelli at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 08:42:07 EDT 2011


Tony,

You probably want to use AVI with *lossless* audio+video codecs (not
necessarily the default options).  The files will be huge.  (For
uploading to Youtube etc, I like to convert my AVI files to H264 or
WebM with pretty high quality settings so it won't degrade noticeably
when the site re-encodes them, yet the files are 2-5x smaller than
uncompressed video, saving time on uploads.)

We should talk sometime... I'm a software developer (and musician)
working on stuff for musicians' websites.  I see a lot of untapped
potential for collaboration among developers, designers, videographers
and editors, recording engineers, writers, publicists, etc...

-- Tom Novelli   tnovelli.net


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Tony Jillson <stmix at birdwaves.com> wrote:
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> We are starting a new video project. It's a documentary that may eventually be solicited for Theatrical release. At the very least it will be broadcast. We have a boatload of material in different formats. All the video is standard def, some in standard 4:3, some in 16:9. We'll be using lots of stills, and some licensed footage from stock libraries.
> Does anyone have a recommendation on what format we should use?
> We are using Final Cut Studio (not X).
> Thanks,
> Tony Jillson
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