[0:00] I dropped h.264 Like a Rock now I edit
[0:03] with fire codex sexy kodaks and okay
[0:08] maybe that maybe I got carried away
[0:09] since forever creators have been wanting
[0:12] to take an SD card out of their camera
[0:13] put it in their computer and immediately
[0:16] start editing while it is the dream
[0:18] h.264 is heavily compressed it's meant
[0:21] to be a viewing codec not an editing
[0:24] codec so it might start out fine but
[0:25] once you have a hundred Cuts color
[0:27] grades Graphics animations things start
[0:31] to get choppy and hard to edit so let's
[0:33] see alternative first let me explain
[0:35] what a codec actually is the word Kodak
[0:37] is an amalgamation of encode and decode
[0:40] it's simply a compression algorithm
[0:43] applied to a file then whatever you're
[0:45] viewing the video on or editing knows
[0:47] what the compression algorithm is and
[0:49] uncompresses it in order to present it
[0:51] to the viewer without compression files
[0:53] would be unwieldy they'd be too large to
[0:55] be distributed on the internet on media
[0:57] like this here's some quick math as to
[0:59] why each pixel stores color in three
[1:02] bytes a 1920x1080 screen is 2 million
[1:06] seventy three thousand six hundred
[1:08] pixels with three bytes per pixel that's
[1:11] six million two hundred and twenty
[1:13] thousand eight hundred bytes that's
[1:15] 0.006 gigabytes for a single frame that
[1:18] doesn't sound too bad now multiply that
[1:20] by 60 frames per second now multiply
[1:23] that by 60 seconds in a minute and
[1:25] you're sitting at 21.6 gigabytes per
[1:29] minute not so great anymore a lot of
[1:31] cameras including the one I'm using
[1:32] right now will record by default into
[1:34] h.264 some may come with other options
[1:37] but mine doesn't even recording software
[1:40] like OBS will by default record to h.264
[1:43] h264 is great for viewing media it's a
[1:46] strong compression that also gives you a
[1:47] pretty decent looking image but that
[1:49] strong compression is exactly what makes
[1:51] it hard to edit for every frame that's
[1:53] pulled up the computer has to decode
[1:55] that compression to show you the frame
[1:56] but because of the way h.264 works it
[1:59] also needs pre previous frames in order
[2:01] to build the current frame because every
[2:03] frame doesn't store every single Pixel
[2:06] especially if there's no changes that's
[2:08] why if you're ever watching a football
[2:09] game and you see confetti rapidly fall
[2:11] everywhere the image stability just
[2:13] falls apart so why the hate for h.264 if
[2:16] you have a relatively decent computer
[2:18] h.264 probably won't give you any
[2:21] trouble but given enough effects and
[2:24] cuts h.264 will start to become a little
[2:27] bit on the sluggish side now I have
[2:29] watched someone take h.265 footage from
[2:31] a Sony a7s3 which is very hard footage
[2:34] to edit and throw it into an M1 Max
[2:36] MacBook Pro that was also a five
[2:38] thousand dollar computer and most of you
[2:41] are Gamers so you're probably not
[2:42] editing on Macs anyway today we're going
[2:44] to talk about PCS Nvidia gpus do come
[2:47] with a built-in h264 encoder decoder
[2:50] called in bank this is what is known as
[2:52] Hardware acceleration the GPU basically
[2:55] has a bunch of parts inside that make it
[2:57] easy to work with this kind of footage
[2:58] when you get a big enough project still
[3:00] find hardware acceleration still kind of
[3:02] struggles a bit if you're using the free
[3:04] version of DaVinci Resolve you do not
[3:06] get access to Hardware acceleration now
[3:09] I do think the studio version is money
[3:11] well spent but I also understand that
[3:14] that is 300 and it is a lot of money if
[3:17] you're using Premiere Pro you do have
[3:18] access to Hardware acceleration but
[3:20] Premiere Pro is not free so for the most
[3:23] part unless you're willing to pay some
[3:25] money you're not getting access to
[3:26] Hardware acceleration anyway we also all
[3:29] know about the memes regarding Premiere
[3:30] Pro and how it crashes all the time but
[3:32] I will say once you start using an
[3:34] actual editing codec I find that it
[3:36] doesn't really crash at all what are
[3:38] editing codecs proxies work by
[3:39] re-rendering the footage that you have
[3:41] at a smaller resolution and a lower bit
[3:43] rate
[3:44] typically becomes significantly easier
[3:46] to edit with then you just have to
[3:48] remember to turn on the proxies while
[3:49] you're editing and to turn them off
[3:51] while you're exporting otherwise your
[3:53] export looks like garbage I personally
[3:55] do not like proxies I find they're kind
[3:57] of a two-step forward one step back kind
[4:00] of deal there's still h.264 it's still
[4:02] not an editing codec so let's talk about
[4:04] dnxhd dnxhd was developed by Avid it's
[4:09] meant to be an editing and a
[4:10] presentation codec while I'll be calling
[4:12] this dnxhd keep in mind that that covers
[4:14] resolutions up to 1080 and then after
[4:16] that the codec uses dnxhr dnxhd is easy
[4:20] for a computer to edit because each
[4:23] individual frame is stored with all of
[4:25] its data intact with no need to
[4:27] reference previous frames this means the
[4:29] computer just grabs reads the frame and
[4:31] displays it and you're done there is a
[4:33] storage and a Time cost to using the NX
[4:36] HD and those costs are broken down like
[4:38] this the time cost is this there's no
[4:40] Hardware acceleration for dnxhd if you
[4:43] watch my video on how record videos like
[4:45] Markiplier you're going to have a double
[4:47] wide video that you're going to split
[4:48] into two parts if you're going to be
[4:50] rendering anyway you may as well try
[4:51] rendering out to dnxhd unless you're
[4:54] trying to turn around some super fast
[4:55] project on a tight deadline you probably
[4:57] have time to spare I highly recommend
[5:00] setting a project up to do some prep
[5:02] work let it render go get a snack take a
[5:05] nap get some water come here
[5:08] self-care take care of yourself because
[5:10] each individual frame is stored there is
[5:13] a storage cost to this as well you're
[5:15] looking at around three gigabytes per
[5:16] minute and so for an hour of footage
[5:18] you're looking at around 180 gigabytes
[5:21] if you're a gamer doing the double wide
[5:24] method that I just mentioned if you've
[5:25] got two files so we're doubling up so
[5:27] you're at about 360 gigs for an hour
[5:29] this is where I suggest if you're an
[5:31] Editor to invests in an editing Drive I
[5:33] personally have an additional M2 one
[5:35] terabyte SSD in my PC that I use just
[5:39] for storing projects that I'm currently
[5:40] working on that's a little Overkill
[5:42] because that reads and rides at about
[5:44] 3000 megabytes per second according to
[5:46] an article by Larry Jordan you only need
[5:48] about 400 megabytes of read and write
[5:50] speed in order to successfully edit a
[5:52] 1080p project and I have a link to that
[5:54] article down below if you want to read
[5:56] more secondly I'm a big fan of Samsung
[5:58] t7 ssds but they're also a little bit on
[6:00] the pricier and Overkill side based on
[6:03] the comments I have read on my other
[6:04] videos a lot of people here use the free
[6:07] version of DaVinci so Hardware
[6:09] acceleration is for the most part out if
[6:12] you can spare the storage space and the
[6:14] time I highly recommend giving dnxhd a
[6:17] try on a big project at least once you
[6:20] will be surprised at just how much
[6:22] better your project is maintained and
[6:25] performs when using a proper editing
[6:27] codec if you can't swing those then h264
[6:30] proxies are probably your next bet I
[6:32] just don't I just personally don't like
[6:34] them now that you're smart on codex
[6:35] you're going to go over here and watch
[6:36] this video on how to make cool vertical
[6:38] videos so you can get lots of views on
[6:40] Tech talk and have a good one foreign