Video Camera Recommendation
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@BRRABill said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@travisdh1 said
I bet you didn't know you were opening a whole other can of worms with that question! The codec used is generally more important than the file type. Basically, check to make sure you can edit a short clip, anything more will require more information (what codec and bit rate do they use?)
What do you mean, edit?
This is just to send to a client, so there should be no editing required, but I'm always curious to learn new stuff.
Ah, I was assuming you'd at least trim the start/end before sending it out. In this case, as long as the file plays back, done. (I know what you get when you assume, guess it really is time to head home.)
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@travisdh1 said
Ah, I was assuming you'd at least trim the start/end before sending it out. In this case, as long as the file plays back, done. (I know what you get when you assume, guess it really is time to head home.)
Well, that is a good point, I might have to do that, because we'll probably start it a few minutes before, and then edit it out.
One of the programs I was looking at was this:
http://www.movavi.com/videoeditor/Moderately cheap and looks to record and edit.
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@travisdh1 said in Video Camera Recommendation:
Even old fashioned hard drives perform well enough today to ingest video feeds.
Depends on what Video feeds we are talking. there are many they will only work on SSDs because of the needed speeds.
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@BRRABill said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@travisdh1 said
So long as you can edit the video, have enough drive space, and drives fast enough to keep up with the video feed, should be A-OK.
Even old fashioned hard drives perform well enough today to ingest video feeds. Back in 2006 it was a big deal for the drives to never drop under 75Mb/sec for a live video switcher I dealt with. I think even a 2.5" 5400 rpm laptop drive can handle that today!
Are either of those formats more accepted? Or are they basically interchangeable?
.MKV a container. as is .mp4
.MKV isn't much of a used container, it's used to be used a lot in the days of people using itunes and ipods for all music/movies. It's crap though.
.mp4 is more flexible. and usually when someone is talking of .mp4 they are talking about h.264/h.265 (or another AVC GOP Codec).
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@Jason said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@BRRABill said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@travisdh1 said
So long as you can edit the video, have enough drive space, and drives fast enough to keep up with the video feed, should be A-OK.
Even old fashioned hard drives perform well enough today to ingest video feeds. Back in 2006 it was a big deal for the drives to never drop under 75Mb/sec for a live video switcher I dealt with. I think even a 2.5" 5400 rpm laptop drive can handle that today!
Are either of those formats more accepted? Or are they basically interchangeable?
.MKV a container. as is .mp4
.MKV isn't much of a used container, it's used to be used a lot in the days of people using itunes and ipods for all music/movies. It's crap though.
.mp4 is more flexible. and usually when someone is talking of .mp4 they are talking about h.264/h.265 (or another AVC GOP Codec).
.MKV was always and still is huge in the subtitle community as well as the dubious torrent world.
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@JaredBusch mkv is a more flexible container than mp4
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So the net net is ... either would be fine?
I had planned to use the one built into Windows, until I realized yesterday that if you minimize it, it stops the video, so it has me a little nervous I might do that by accident.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@JaredBusch mkv is a more flexible container than mp4
True, but Jared hates it, so it must be shit. You aren't supposed to defer to your own judgement on these decisions....
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@RojoLoco said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@brianlittlejohn said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@JaredBusch mkv is a more flexible container than mp4
True, but Jared hates it, so it must be shit. You aren't supposed to defer to your own judgement on these decisions....
um what? I never said i hated anything. I personally am familiar with both formats.
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Use MP4
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@Breffni-Potter said in Video Camera Recommendation:
Use MP4
I ended up using MK4 due to the "minimizing" problem.
If we are going to keep doing these videos I will have to get some more education.
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So after the fact, I went to upload the MKV files to SharePoint, and realized this format is not supported.
I downloaded handbrake, and converted to MP4, but the file size is about 1/3.
The videos look and sound the same. Is this just container size? Or did I possibly do something wrong?
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You probably compressed with different settings.
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Are you uploading to Sharepoint, or to Office 365 Videos?
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@scottalanmiller said in Video Camera Recommendation:
Are you uploading to Sharepoint, or to Office 365 Videos?
SharePoint.
Apparently does not support streaming MKV.
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@BRRABill said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Camera Recommendation:
Are you uploading to Sharepoint, or to Office 365 Videos?
SharePoint.
Apparently does not support streaming MKV.
Very few "products" seem to support MKV. It is all over the open source world, but not the commercial world.
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@scottalanmiller said in Video Camera Recommendation:
You probably compressed with different settings.
I just loaded the file in Handbrake and converted it, without changing any settings.
I'm really a video rookie, so if this was wrong, let me know!
Or if there is a better program.
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@BRRABill said in Video Camera Recommendation:
@scottalanmiller said in Video Camera Recommendation:
You probably compressed with different settings.
I just loaded the file in Handbrake and converted it, without changing any settings.
I'm really a video rookie, so if this was wrong, let me know!
Or if there is a better program.
All of the settings that you did not look at are telling you how it will compress it. But honestly, that is not a problem. Well, unless you chose something like the iPod preset
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I ended up looking around on Google, and it seems the ffmpeg was the way to go.
I used
ffmpeg -i "C:\scratch\focus group files\Focus Group 1.mkv" -c copy "C:\scratch\focus group files\Focus Group 1.mp4"I have a lot of learning to do on containers.
