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Not a video pro, but a counterpoint: "lossy encode, then process" is inferior to "process, then lossy encode". Reasoning: Some processing steps may amplify the
by smilekzs 4y ago
Not a video pro, but a counterpoint: "lossy encode, then process" is inferior to "process, then lossy encode". Reasoning: Some processing steps may amplify the noise introduced by lossy encoding. Other processing steps may be sensitive to SNR. Such steps chained together in a pipeline can make the otherwise small extra noise unacceptably big.
- sorenjan 4y agoNote that I suggested reencoding footage for archiving, not processing. Although again, the final result ends up on Youtube and gets reencoded by them and viewed on all kind of devices.