Definitely agreed.ZetZu wrote:+1Niotex wrote:Quoted for truth.Castor Troy wrote:Most Hollywood editors don't even know what codecs are.
Lossless codecs for REAL editors
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Yeah I also totally agree.OtakuGray wrote:Definitely agreed.ZetZu wrote:+1Niotex wrote: Quoted for truth.
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Maybe I'm at a loss too as to what codecs are as well. Could someone give me a brief explanation??
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I agree as well.Otohiko wrote:Yeah I also totally agree.ZetZu wrote:Definitely agreed.Niotex wrote: Quoted for truth.
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Codec = COmpressor/DECompressorlloyd9988 wrote:Maybe I'm at a loss too as to what codecs are as well. Could someone give me a brief explanation??
Video can be represented as a sequence of red, green and blue values (there's other ways besides RGB, but this gets my point across just fine.) If you just leave the data like that (uncompressed), a single episode would take roughly 33.4GB of space (720x480*** pixels x 3 bytes per pixel x 24 frames per second x 60 seconds/minute x 24 minutes).
Codecs compress that information down to a more manageable size by using different techniques, and then decompress the data when you try to watch the video.
This is a gross simplification, but...
Lossy codecs throw away some parts of the video information to make files smaller.
Lossless codecs preserve 100% of the information, and have zero quality loss, but make larger files than their lossy counterparts.
***I don't care about the active region here, the point is uncompressed = big
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I'm glad everyone agrees 
Editors in the industry only cut the clips and nothing more. They don't have the time nor do they care about the technical stuff. Half of them don't even know how to turn on their Avid system.
I remember one video I edited for a client, I asked him what codec he wanted and he was like "uhhh... quicktime".
Editors in the industry only cut the clips and nothing more. They don't have the time nor do they care about the technical stuff. Half of them don't even know how to turn on their Avid system.
I remember one video I edited for a client, I asked him what codec he wanted and he was like "uhhh... quicktime".
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CODECS are what allow you to Write & Read video in certain file formats (ie. COding & DECoding).lloyd9988 wrote:Maybe I'm at a loss too as to what codecs are as well. Could someone give me a brief explanation??
Analogy:
- Codecs are to Video; as Dictionaries are to Books.
Just as an English Dictionary can be used to interpret/write Books in English,
the x264 Codec reads/writes Video in the x264 format.
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I remember having that level of technical knowledge when I was in high school.Castor Troy wrote:I remember one video I edited for a client, I asked him what codec he wanted and he was like "uhhh... quicktime".
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It was all about cinepak and mpeg1 back in those days!Pie Row Maniac wrote:I remember having that level of technical knowledge when I was in high school.Castor Troy wrote:I remember one video I edited for a client, I asked him what codec he wanted and he was like "uhhh... quicktime".
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you forgot Umatic and Reel-to-Reel direct editing.Castor Troy wrote:It was all about cinepak and mpeg1 back in those days!Pie Row Maniac wrote:I remember having that level of technical knowledge when I was in high school.Castor Troy wrote:I remember one video I edited for a client, I asked him what codec he wanted and he was like "uhhh... quicktime".
On this board you've got it lucky; even TV Stations only recognize Umatic Controllers
and Gen-Lock System Editing. Here, you can get exposed to Digital encoding:
.. this would have been impossible 20 years ago and non-productive even 15 years ago.
Mpeg-2 is fine for DVD's -- but I'm thinking; there HAS to be a better way!
