Difference between these codecs: Apple VC H.263, DV/DVCPRO-NTSC and H.264

DV/DVCPRO is NTSC DV... it's shot by NTSC DV cameras... This is a very common editing format used for DV cameras.

The other two are delivery formats. H.264 can be used for the web movies and even for blu-ray disks... it's a scalable thing, and is a very advanced and very good codec to just use for watching the video but it's not editable easily at all.

The H.263 codec I'm not sure of what it would be used for, but figure it too comes from the MPEG family so wouldn't be editable, just viewable... what you'd use it for? I've no real idea, but would love for somebody to chime in with it's use.

Jerry

H.263 was originally developed for video-telephony, and is not applicable for professional video production. If I remember correctly, the old-old-old Flash video format was based on H.263, but it's long since obsolete.

Thanks Jeff! no wonder I've never heard of it's use...

Jerry

The important thing to know about H.263 is that it's less than H.264. 😉

Well, tell me more... who and what are you trying to deliver? a DVD ? or a web stream, or a high quality movie or? Something you can edit?

Jerry

Send him one made by File/Export/QT movie... use current settings, and make it self contained... that's the "regular" one.. he can compress to anything he'd like from it.

Use File/export/using compressor to make the H.264. Just use the preset for a 3 or 400kbs movie, and you should be good to go...

Jerry