The best video file format is the original source video unless you have a good reason to change it.

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I have got reason to change it as it is CCTV footage that has to be transcoded to be able to be imported into PD Hello

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I have got reason to change it as it is CCTV footage that has to be transcoded to be able to be imported into PD

What format was it transcoded to?

I would think that the native format (what is it?) from a CCTV camera would import into Powerdirector without converting to anything else.

Most of the Closed Circuit TV cameras I know of output mpeg2/mpg at 640/720 x 480. There are some HD cameras that output 1280x720 MP4, PD would have no problem with that format.

Have you tried importing the footage directly? Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

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Thanks for the answer.



Please believe me whan I say it has to be transcoded. It is an exe proprietary format file which can only be played in the manufacturers player.



All I want to know is what is the best format to convert files to for PowerDirector and if there is any advantage of one format over the other



Thanks Hello

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Thanks for the answer.



Please believe me whan I say it has to be transcoded. It is an exe proprietary format file which can only be played in the manufacturers player.



All I want to know is what is the best format to convert files to for PowerDirector and if there is any advantage of one format over the other



Thanks

That would depend on what formats are available to output from the manufacturer's software.

Powerdirector does fine with nearly all of the standard Video formats.

Powerdirector supports the following video formats:

Importing Media Files
Video: 3GPP2, AVI, DAT, DivX**, DV-AVI, DVR-MS*, FLV (H.264), HD MPEG-2, M2T*, MKV (H.264, H.265), MOD*, MOV, MOV (H.264), MP4, MPEG-1*, MPEG-2*, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)*, MPEG-4 HEVC (H.265)*, MTS*, TOD*, VOB*, VRO*, WMV, WMV-HD, WTV, XAVC S

Practically MPEG-2 or MP4 are the most used formats. WMV is very popular for Windows.

. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Presumably this executable is running under Windows. The video itself (analog or digital) must be 'grabbed' by the application initially from your camera and must be stored in some format, be it a proprietary one or not. What options does the application offer when it comes to saving the video? If there is an option to save to a 'lossless' file format then that is the one I would choose and at the highest possible quality. The things to avoid if possible are conversion and re-conversion between analog and digital and also compression, decompression and then recompression i.e. between different codecs. Apart from that it's best to try to match thing such as bitrate as closely as possible.

That's my 2p's worth .

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