AVC and AAC in an .mp4 wrapper is more transportable. All your grandchildren have mobile devices that “might” require a non-native app to play interlaced video and AC3 audio, but will play AVC/AAC in an .mp4 wrapper. That’s not the end of the world. AVC is a more space-efficient codec than MPEG-2. If I had lots of tapes to transfer today and I was committed to optical media (I don’t and I’m not), I’d put them on Blu-ray with AVC/AC3/WAV in their native pixel dimensions and interlaced using custom Sony AVC/AAC render templates. Then, there’s always the issue of streaming sites like Vimeo and YouTube, which will require yet another render format. For all my current work, shot in UHD, I render AVC/AAC as .mp4 to FHD for streaming from my DLNA server and sharing with others and UHD for playing from a local hard drive or USB flash drive attached to the TV.
Which advantages can be expected by rendering in MP4?
Dollar for dollar, the MP4 h264 file is 5 times smaller with no quality difference, that's why.
Your DVD movie that would take up 5 GB of your phone's memory, now takes up <=1GB.
There is only one player that would play mpeg-2 on Android.
At the moment I only work on 4k material.
As far as the old tapes are concerned, I will have to part with the old habits. Your explanations are clear and convincing, that's what I will do in the future.
Thank you. (My problem solved...)
frmax: I'm still trying to get this right. will certainly let you know when I do.
Can someone please tell me how to respond to someone using that "@blabla" thing that y'all do?
press @ and you may see this to choose your wanted username:
Does not always work if there are too many "Wide" (e.g.) usernames here. OTOH, writing e.g. @wid may bring up suggestions
Shift + Num 2 = @
alt gr + 2 = @ on my (non-US) KB.