What video settings for my little "Sports Cam", please?

JohnAsh wrote on 2/3/2020, 7:38 AM

For our next vacation trip, we will again be using my Sony Camcorder which is set as 50i AVCHD (PAL).

I plan to use the little sports cam (Go-Pro lookalike) for car interior shots, mainly. This cam claims to take 4K video and certainly, on my PC, Vegas struggles a bit with that. My thinking is that I should set the sports cam to match the video from my Sony, as there is nothing to be gained by using a higher quality, given that the final render would be HD. Or am I missing something, please? (My Sony cam also has XSVC S HD available which I have not been using).

Thanks, as ever.

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Musicvid wrote on 2/3/2020, 7:48 AM

My thinking is that I should set the sports cam to match the video from my Sony,

That is the correct approach for editing this time.

john_dennis wrote on 2/3/2020, 8:45 AM

There is one potential gain from shooting UHD when you are delivering FHD. That is the possibility of cropping a FHD portion of a shot that wasn't framed perfectly and still having at least 1920x1080 in the final output.

Only you can make a decision about whether it's worth the extra storage and processing demand.

JohnAsh wrote on 2/3/2020, 12:48 PM

Thanks for the advice. I doubt I will be doing any cropping so the advantages of setting as per my camcorder outweigh that possible advantage.

Thank you.