Canon XL1 3CCD Camcorder User Manual


 
‐MotionJPEGis4:2:2,andmostimplementationsallowyoutospecifyadatarateorqualitylevel.
‐Typically,dataratesof50Mbpsorgreaterareconsideredbroadcastquality.
3.Uncompressedcodecs
‐Moreandmorecardssupporttrue4:2:2uncompressedvideo.Thedataratesarelarge,andthe
qualityisnobetterthanalosslesscompression.
‐Onesignificantadvantageofsomeuncompressedcodecsissupportfor10bitperchannelcaptures,
whichcanperformbetterforanalogandespeciallySDIsources.‐Highendvideoediting
applications,suchasAfterEffectsProfessional,areabletoprocessvideoinmorethan8bitsper
channel,improvingthequality.
‐Becauseuncompressedcodecshavesuchhighdatarates,youshoulduseafastdrivesystem,suchas
aRAID(redundantarrayofindependentdisks)system.
Exportingvideo
‐Iffeaturesinotherencodingtoolsarerequired,forexample,volumeencodingtomultipleoutput
formats,itisusefultoexportanintermediatefilefromthetimelineandusetheexportedfilefor
furtherprocessing.
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Exportingtofile
Afileyouexportforlaterprocessingiscalledanintermediatefile.(Reasonforthis=toprovidehigh
qualityinthemostusefulformatwithoutintroducinganycompressionartifacts).
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Choosingwhethertopreprocessortoavoidrendering
Whentoapplypreprocessing?Duringtherenderingphaseorlater?
‐Preprocessingduringrenderinggenerallyresultsinasmallerfile,butaddsmorerenderingtime.
‐Basically,toavoidrendering,youusethesamecodecandfileformatasyoursourcevideo.
Ifyoudon’tpreprocess,youdon’tneedtouncompressandthenrecompressunmodifiedframes—
instead,youcopythemfromthesourceintotheoutput.‐InAdobePremierePro,you’dturnoff
theRecompressoptionintheVideo
paneoftheExportMovieSettingsdialogbox.Forthisprocesstowork,thevideomusttrulybe
unchangedwiththesameframerate,framesize,pixelaspectratio,andsoon.Thesimplestwayto