Standards for Capture
Best practices are always to capture at the highest qualities possible. You can always compress and reduce file size/quality, but you can't go back and increase quality without re-shooting the entire event.
Archival:
Video: The best quality possible. At this time, the standard that AMPS is using is a Motion JPEG 2000 capture. The next level is an HQ XDCAM EX format (Full 1080p30).
Audio: Uncompressed (raw audio file)
pros:
- the quality is very high
cons:
- the file sizes are very large. Motion JPEG 2000 is roughly 23 Gb/hour. XDCAM EX is roughly 16Gb/Hour
For the web (MIT TechTV): capture footage at original quality and then compress/output to below settings
Standard:
- video:
- H.264
- .mov/.mp4/.m4v
- 480x270 / 480x360
- 500kbps
- 30fps short videos, 15fps long videos (30 min or more)
- audio:
- AAC
- 32Khz
- 64kbps
- mono
HD/HQ:
- video:
- H.264
- .mov/.mp4/.m4v
- 480x270 / 480x360 or HD resolution (1920x1080, 1440 x 720 - recommended for shorter videos only since file size will be much larger)
- 1000kbps or more
- 30fps short videos, 15fps long videos (30 min or more)
- audio:
- AAC
- 44.1Khz
- 128kbps
- stereo