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Cool!
I'll also be shooting with a Sony A55 DSLR. It shoots H.264 AVC and I've tested it in PD9, works fine. Dolby digital 2 channel on the audio.
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Thanks for the link to the thread, Carl. Some good samples there.
Reading about the Canon Powershot 30SX I had thought it recorded quicktime format (.mov), but maybe not. I'll have to go to the store and record some stuff to see. It's all pretty confusing to me reading the specs and reviews.
Anyway, it seems that PD9 has no problems with H.264, whatever the container.
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Well I was curious about all this, so I downloaded some video trailers in h.264 1280x720 29.98FPS. I needed them in the Quicktime container as this is what some of the Canon cameras shoot.
PD9 did seem rather good at frame to frame on this. There was the odd skipped frame or maybe double frame here and there, but not enough to worry about. For all I know, those could have been in the original material.
As some of the cameras I'm looking at shoot 60P (I'd rather have 30P) this could be a problem. But some info out there says that the cheaper cameras actually generate 30P but include a meta-tag that tells the player to show each frame twice at double speed. Not sure how true that is, but it does show up here and there across the web.
Anyone else see that?
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Thanks guys, that's a great help. ![]() I'll get AVCHD then. Likely a Canon or Panasonic.
Yes, I've been bringing still in as PNG, usually with an alpha channel and it's working great. The animations I save as a QT .mov in the "animation" setting. This is also worked very well a looks very clean.
Thanks again for the help and your advice.
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Thanks Allan, I did read that it and was a bit of a help. But not exactly what I need.
In the world of Final Cut Pro and Avid they worry a lot about the consumer formats because they are not made for editing. They may have an iFrame very rarely - like every few seconds. In those editing softwares that can translate into not getting a cut of effect right were you need it. Some folks convert to ProRes format before editing for more precision.
I'm just a little worried about the format because I don't want to be stuck in edit. But maybe it's not a problem in PD9?
No one have issues with not getting a cut, fade or other effect right were you want it?
I may have to take an SD card to the store, shoot on several cameras and give each format a try. Maybe it's not even an issue.
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Hello all. My first post here. I've been using PD9 to assemble a little documentary and like the software very much.
Much of my animation is done in either Photoshop or Flash MX and it looks great once assembled and rendered in PD9.
But what format to use for shooting live footage? I'll be using either a camcorder or digital camera onto memory card. And I'll be staying with 1280x720 for everything. There are several formats used by camcorders and digicams, but is any one better than another for editing?
What has been your experience with the formats like H264, AVHC, AVHC Lite, M-JPEG, ect? Not as a final output format, but for editing raw footage and working on the timeline. Any preferences?
I've rendered out to DVD directly in 16:9 format and the animations look great on a DVD or BluRay player. No problem there.
But what about the input format?
Sorry if I missed this topic elsewhere. I did search but could not find the info. If there is a thread somewhere, can you point me to it? Thanks!
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