Has anyone has an issue where they process CGO 3+ footage with a video editor and it appears as though there is some quality or resolution loss after processing?
This occurs even at 1080 p, processing footage in MP4 to MP4.
Should we be transcoding the raw footage first or what?
Video editing is a whole subject itself. As it was mentioned before not only are there several formats for different applications, but then codecs with different settings each and different color managment, and finally render settings.
I am not an expert but I've been working with video for quite some time now, and I've come to understand a few things; first of all .MP4 format is not a video format, it is rather a container, in which you can have different video and audio tracks. So don't be deceived: converting from .MP4 to MP4 doesn't mean you're using to the same format per se.
Anyway, if you're experiencing video quality loss I would advice (without getting too technical) to export using the same (or a close match) to the video bitrate of the source. Don't go above it, as you will just increase file size without gaining anything. (If you're using variable bit rate render 2 passes!)
Also, make sure you're using the .H264 codec, it is widely used as it gives very nice quality without a lot of compression with considerable file sizes.
And last, make sure your output frame-rate matches the source. Not long ago I was breaking my head trying to get a 4K video to play smoothly and nothing seemed to solve the issue, it turns out I was rendering at 30fps while the source from the CGO3+ is native NTSC 29.97fps and that was enough to throw off the final video.
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