Prevoius post http://blog.davidesp.com/archives/214 said (quoted):
- High quality is for finished material (e.g. to be output to DVD/BluRay) …
- …but if further grading is a possibility then use Filmscan 1. Filmscan 2 is overkill.
- For extensive post, filmscan and 4:4:4 is probably a benefit. But note that 4:4:4:4 requires lots of power and raid arrays.
New, from http://techblog.cineform.com/?cat=100&paged=2
- For most workhorse acquisition, post, and rendering uses we recommend either High or Film Scan.
- By the way, the background on the naming of Film Scan is that this mode was designed to accurately reproduce the characteristic of film grain during film scanning.
- Certain applications dont exploit the temporal nature of the CineForm algorithm, and resulting YUV file sizes are approximately 25% larger than (otherwise). This doesnt impact visual quality, only compressed file size. These applications include Sony Vegas and Apple Final Cut Pro.
- Also for consideration: When selecting a higher quality setting (FS1 versus High for instance) the recorded files are larger (and) more CPU (is used) for real-time playback.