Hi there,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this work flow as I'm new to post production work.
We stream and record public events 3-4 times a week using Wirecast as our capture, record and streaming software (basically you can record to disk the livestream with all the powerpoint shots, graphics etc so it saves you having to add them after), the livestream is fine, the problem is the recorded file. As wirecast has to do a live encode for the streaming and recording it has to do 2 x encodes at different settings.
I've recorded to QuickTime and Flash and both have given bad results considering the dimensions are 1280 x 720. The result is bad but after doing some simple edits in iMovie the exported file is even worst. What i would like to know is what is best quality codec to use to record to if the end format will be flash and would premiere pro be able to edit a H264 file and then export it without losing quality? I've seen in some forums that flash isn't very good for post production work and it can take forever to import into iMovie because of the transcodeing (not sure if that's the right terminology) and i know it's best practice to keep the native record and then edit from that but i don't have the luxury of being able to edit the recording from a camera.
AIC and ProRes have been mentioned but the file sizes are massive.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Wirecast 4.2.6
MBP Retina 10.7.4
2.5ghz Intel core i7
8gb RAM
Cannon HD40