Sustaining Video Quality

Caspaaa

Caspaaa

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Whats up guys.

Recently I've been taking videos on my gopro. These videos then get dragged and dropped from my SD card to my computer desktop, imported to iMovie, edited, exported as a .mov file to my desktop, and then uploaded to Vimeo.

My question is, are there any things I should do throughout all of these steps that will help maintain the highest video quality possible for the end result on vimeo?

The only point I've ever had to make a decision was when I exported to my desktop as a .mov file. When I do so, I chose the HD option (i think it said like 1260 x 980)

thanks guys, any tips are appreciated
 
The main thing you want to do, is maintain constant settings. If you film in 720 at 30fps then edit at 720 at 30fps. If you film in 60fps you can still edit in 30fps and it will let you slow the footage down by Half.

At exporting you would often want to render a lossless file such a s a Quicktime file with animation settings. You could then compress this file for use on vimeo. If you compress it correctly you may keep more quality then trying to compress at rendering time.

However I don't use Imovie so I don't know what settings are available to you, but I would presume you have most of the basic settings.

As for colour correction and grading I doubt iMovie is good at this but this may not be something your too bothered about.
 
I'm not certain of this, as when you apply effects it may do something to the bit rate, but if you find the original bit rate by checking the properties of your gopro file, and then when you're rendering you set the bit rate to a bit higher than the original should work, I usually just set it to ~20MBPS
 
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