Choosing codec final cut pro

No one codec provides the best of all four of these criteria. Each codec concentrates on maximizing one or two of the four. Both rapidly evolved into something much more, but neither forgot their roots. Final Cut supports all the codecs that QuickTime ever supported. And QuickTime supports all or virtually all its old codecs so that you can always play a QuickTime movie, no matter how old it is. Now, before everyone starts shooting off emails, let me stress that for some applications in certain situations even these codecs can be indispensable.

However, for general everyday video use, you may feel comfortable ignoring them. Just for the record, not all codecs that Final Cut supports are for full-screen video. There are also a lot of codecs specifically for the web.

Web codecs are designed to reduce file size and decompress quickly, however, they take longer than real-time to compress:. As you are starting to see, the list of codecs we can use for video fast compression and fast decompression is starting to dwindle. These rules are made to be broken. However, before you start breaking rules willy-nilly, you should probably get a better understanding of what the impact is of selecting a specific codec. In general, image quality increases with file size.

The rules are the same for HD, but the files are bigger. Codec Quality Approx. Then there are specialized codecs that significantly compress video for off-line, low-resolution work that would not be used in the final version of the program:. To enter an arbitrary frame size, click the Format pop-up menu and choose Custom.

The color space you choose should be the color space in which you intend to export for final delivery. When the color-processing setting in the Library Properties inspector is set to Wide Gamut HDR, wide-gamut settings appear in this menu. We're not burning CDs here consumer-level audio, not audiophile-level audio , we're editing video.

So stick with 48kHz and you won't go wrong. If you do multi-cam shoots and your cameras are all on different sample rates, you'll get some of them drifting out of sync over time. Yes, turn off stabilization inside the app when on a Tripod. That goes for any camera! The camera will be making an effort to stabilize when it's already stable and could cause some image glitches.

Lav mics are perfectly safe with the pandemic, we use them daily, and we stay masked-up at all times with latex gloves. Wipe off surfaces with an alcohol-wipe when done, super easy to do. So micing up a man-on-the-street as I do weekly, is super fast and easy using the built-in mic. I prefer the wired lav mic it comes with, better quality, but the built-in mic is good, too, and easier during the pandemic and in run-and-gun situations.

Clip it on their collar, done! Simply plugs directly into your iPhone to make it even easier to use. And the sound quality is really amazing. Because celluloid film is shot at 24fps some videographers think shooting at 24fps will make their video look like film.

It doesn't, not at all, period. To look like film you need to first light like film, block like film, use lenses like film. Frame rate alone simply doesn't cut it to make your video look like film. There are dozens of articles by professionals over the years explaining this. And consider that film is not shot digitally no factories make the large celluloid film cameras any longer 30fps gives you smooth motion, and easily converts to 24fps or Speaking of delivery, shoot what you're final delivery needs are.

If you're going to the web, 30fps gives you nice video. If you're going to TV broadcast, shoot at File size doesn't really matter much as H. Then I edit on or frame size Projects, depending on the delivery needs. I set it to None to get those close-ups that give the work some polish, without losing image quality.

Since I'm usually using only one camera, it gives me more options for cutting the final product. ACC audio is native to the H. PCM is uncompressed audio and you're not going to hear the difference when editing, trust me.

But I came to video from spending my youth in audio recording studios around New Orleans. I still have some unfounded prejudice towards uncompressed audio, even though I know it won't make a difference.

HVAC is high dynamic range stuff, which I'm not fooling with yet. If you have a camera that will shoot it, and you have a need for it, cool beans, use it.

But FCPX does a pretty good job with it, considering. The support from FilMIC was excellent and they managed to recover it. However they do mention in the recommendations they sent me that saving to the Photos album is NOT recommended as they have had reports of corruption. Something to do with Apple permissions in IOS Since I posted like 3 days ago, and it never showed up, I nearly gave up on the site.

Have also sorta forgot my original questions Then don't save it to the Photos library. I've done it for years without issue. But if they say there are issues, then don't do it. All of the advice FCPX. I agree that's what you should shoot but it's because Saying that 24fps There is a visible difference between the two with pros and cons of each.

If you shoot You can add forced motion blur in AE for example but it doesn't look as natural in all cases. It really just depends on the look you are going for. Best of luck! JarrodMFay wrote:. You can choose to share the Final Cut Pro videos with your iPhone with the preset parameters.

They are both video codecs contained in the format. But the H. Thus if you choose the H. Cannot play iPhone videos on computer or post them to social network? Here we share three ways to fix this problem by converting iPhone videos to MP4.