Thursday, March 16, 2017

Re: [Avid-L2] Sony A7 camera recording formats?

 

You touch on what confuses me a bit.  Both the MP4 and AVCHD in the Record formats are listed as H.264.  My head always poo poos H.264 for things but clearly it's not truely the case given the AVCHD is also H.264. 



---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <mig.lupe@...> wrote :

Avc-Intra 50 & 100 is an intraframe codec good for acquisition & delivery.

Mpeg-4 (h.264) Long GOP used in QuickTime as a delivery format. High quality but not optimized editing.

On Mar 16, 2017 6:14 PM, "John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I'm told our series will be shooting standups with a Sony A7.  From checking the specs I see the recording formats are:
  • AVCHD: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
  • MP4: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
  • XAVC S: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
The camera person suggested mpeg 4 when we told him XAVC S doesn't play nice with Avid.  He then mentioned AVC I.  I take that to mean AVC- Intra.  I assume that would be the AVCHD: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264.  My gut tells me the AVCHD format would be the best choice but my gut isn't a savvy cameraperson.  Anybody got a suggestion for recording format.  These are standups so it's not going to be a lot of material so file size doesn't matter.

Seems to me the choice is between MP4 or AVCHD.  Both seem to be MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 so what is the difference?  Is AVCHD an Intra frame Codec and the other long GOP?
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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