Project Workflow

One of the aspects I learned while researching filming for this project, is the importance of workflow. Now that refers to the process of how video files are converted, edited and finally rendered.  Converting (encoding) and rendering can both take time, so its important to have the correct set up before starting to gain the right 'workflow'.


My camera's movie files are AVCHD native, this codec is specially designed to give large hi-def size movies in a relatively low file size, around 2gig for 12minutes.  However because of this, they are notoriously bad to edit and modify in editing software.  I wanted to make sure that I converted the files once Id copied them from the camera, into something much more manageable for editing.
The list of possible codecs to choose from is pretty daunting, what's more, the movies had to be shrinked in resolution as the final project was planned for a website upload.


I eventually decided to convert into raw AVI (as we'd practised and used in college) once the settings were finalized and I had the result I wanted, I could quickly batch process the rest of the files using this conversion workflow.