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About extreme compression - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning DSLR Filmmaking
About extreme compression
Chad Perkins: Another big problem with these DSLRs is how they compress the video files that they create. Initially, they were meant to be deliverable files. You would just record the videos and then post them online or turn them in to your boss or whatever. But with the proliferation of DSLRs, we often want to use them in post. But because they're already so heavily compressed, there is really not much room to play around with them when you're in post-production. For example, this heavy compression makes it really challenging if you're trying to remove green screen. While more pure footage removes green screen more cleanly and evenly, even the best green screen footage shot on a DSLR is still really compressed and creates artifacts that are just a beast to remove. And then when you want to composite that footage with other material, it's so compressed that you really can't adjust the colors very much without destroying the footage. That being said, it can be done. When the Canon 7D…
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