Hi Guys,
I have searched and read so much information regarding this topic in various plaecs across the web recently but am a bit confused by it all.
I want to make sure i maintain as good quality settings and footage as possible throughout my project.
It is a home edit of footage shot on my gopro HD Hero2.
All footage is shot at 720 @59.94 FPS.
Importing i use the footage to create its own composition so the comp should have perfect settings for my footage and no loss of quality yes?
At some stages i might need to precompose and move up a layer. This can mean that some of my footage is buried 3 compositions down, do i lose video quality by doing this, it doesnt appear so but maybe i do?
Also, i bet you have heard this a million times before, which settings are best for my output. I have been typically using H.264 encoding with best settings. This gives a pretty good output that i am usually fairly happy with. I looked about at settings yetserday and you can change framerates and clours and bitrates :/
Do i need to mes with those settings. I want the footage to come out at the best settings at 25 fps for PAL TV's.
Should i encode at H.264, change the fps to 25?
Should i set maximum and target bitrates?
Sorry for all the questions i just cant get my head around some of the information. So many settings, should i perhaps use MPEG?
thanks,
Chris