So when I upload footage from my Nikon D5100 to my macbook pro, it comes across as 720P MOV. file after looking it up online, it's because the footage is recorded in some h.264 codec that has to be converted to be able to keep the image quality. I'm fairly ignorant of this stuff at the moment.Anybody know much about this? and if so, how did you deal with it, what converter do you use?
I recommend Mpeg Streamclip for transcoding video. It's free, fast and effective. It's even used in commercial post production houses for converting video files. If you're editing the footage, it might be better to stick with 720 rather than upscaling? .mov is just a "wrapper" and a .mov file can actually have a h264, mp4, pro res file inside it!What are you using to edit? I know from the old days of my using Final Cut pro, Pro Res was the way to go, but now I'm using other packages (Avid, Premiere etc..) they all have their own particular workflows.The issue with camera files is more to do with the fact that they are so compressed that the editing software or playback software gets shut down by the process of uncompressing the files all the time. Uncompressing the files interrupts the smoothness of the editing processes, or the smoothness of the playback.
you should take your camera to a cemetery and leave it (after 9pm) with a bag of frozen coffee beans and the spare key to a Priusthe following morning (before 6.30am), do some pseudo yoga about 4 feet from the entrance to the cemetery (for just over 22 minutes) before picking up the camerathis trick will only work if you pay me $29 before midnight tonightapart from that, I have nothing useful to say