4:2:2 high-profile H.264 (at quite low bitrates) is pretty much indistinguishable from ProRes Source using difference testing in After Effects. [I used Episode Pro 6 to encode.]
Unfortunately, After Effects CS 5.5 is pretty much the only app that can open and play it (have not tested Premiere). VideoSpec will show info but the playback is broken up.
James
On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Steve Oakley wrote: Mpeg2 iframe only.
h264 isn't a bad choice as there are very high bit rate 10/12 bit iframe options if your encoder can do it.
animation / photojpeg is 8bit, which may not be bad, but probably not ideal if your source is all 10bit, or you did a lot of grading /comping where 10bit is your friend.
just waiting for apple to screw up ProRes
s
On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Satya G Meka wrote:
Thanks for the info. Although archiving on a blu-ray sounds good, I would rather have everything backed up on a server. I'll probably look into the JPEG 2000 in MXF.
Satya G Meka. On Friday, January 6, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:
I would second JPEG 2000 in MXF as it's the only thing remotely a standard. It's a bit of pain to work with so you might also store a more accessible format as well.
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