From the course: Video Gear: Technical Tips
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Capturing uncompressed video on set
From the course: Video Gear: Technical Tips
Capturing uncompressed video on set
- So obviously, Rich, on a lot of cameras there's a lot of high compression going on. Everything from H.264 to MPEG files to even proprietary formats. There has been a trend, I would say, over the past five to seven years, that started in the high end and has made its way down into more affordable cameras, and that is the use of what I would refer to as less compressed or editing friendly or lower compression type codecs. And what I mean by that, Rich, is formats like Apple ProRes or Avid's DNxHD. These are still technically pretty compressed signals, but in nature of how they work, with I-frames only, that is, every frame is a frame and high color sampling and high bit depth. Even though they're compressed, they are much better quality and more apropos for something like green screen shooting than you would get with something like H.264, for example. - One of the reason why these high-quality codecs are not often enabled in-camera is because it creates a lot of performance issues…
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