

I can't remember for sure but in Resolve, Cineform Filmscan is similar in bitrate to the HQ modes of those codecs. Cineform High is about like normal Prores and DNxHD/HR encodes in bitrate. Filmscan and High are the two settings someone stating their concerns about "quality" should look into. Filmscan2 is overkill in most anyone's view. Cineform goes Filmscan2, Filmscan, High, Medium, Low. Sadly Resolve does not use the standard Cineform names for bitrate/quality settings. One can always go overkill but that can cause performance problems. Unless your camera is capturing above 4:2:2 you may be just wasting bits and thus wasting performance. There is no chroma subsampling so this does increase the bitrate all else being equal. You never mentioned what your camera source is. Not the intermediate format in normal settings. Really your camera quality is the real limiting factor here. Going across a single line/channel Ethernet pipe is not terribly fast in the scheme of things.Ībout Quality. Remember, even a single track with a transition requires two simultaneous data streams be delivered fast enough for decode and then you need the compute power to decode those high bitrates.

Not so much in size of space but bitrate of delivery for decode. "File size isn't a huge issue since the storage is temporary and I'm in the process of setting up a NAS, so quality is my priority here."įile size can very much be an issue.
