I have always used AVCHD straight out of the camera (both DSLRs and dedicated video cams) since PPCC can edit AVCHD natively, but even with my gaming PC, it still can be taxing after a while. I have stayed up night after night researching which codec to transcode my footage to using Prelude to help me not only get better performance, but also to help me be able to push my grading capabilities a little further, since I tend to grade a lot. Needless to say the amount of good and bad info out there to sort through is becoming overwhelming! I have narrowed it down to DNxHD since ProRes is primarily designed for use on Mac and seems to have a lot of extra workaround to be had before you can use it on Windows (unless of course I am wrong about that). I found on the Avid website that DNxHD 175x is equivalent for the most part to ProRes HQ. I also read where x means 10-bit, which is what I wanted.

So, for my first question, is 175x the best option out of the massive list of options you get with DNxHD? To clarify, a lot of my work is used for online promos for companies, but I will also be producing two nationally televised shows for the Pursuit Channel starting in August, so if there is a 'best' option for each situation, I would love to hear it. Also, in Prelude, to transcode to DNxHD, the option for Format is DNxHD MXF OP1a. Is there a difference between that and just DNxHD? I really would like to find the best option for both the website material and for the televised material. Also would RGB 444 be a better option since I grade a lot?

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I think you can only use RGB with either DNX 350X or DNX 440X. Second, in order to help my PC while editing in PP, I read where you should set what you are rendering to in order to help with the reading of the files, or something like that (like I said, my head is hurting now haha).

So what I was going to do was start a new sequence and under Sequence Presets, select the same preset that I was transcoding my files to. Is this correct? Anything else I should do to help with the render and preview files with this codec?

My next question is back to the DNxHD codec options. Most of what I shot for the project I am currently working on (online commercial) is in 24fps, or 23.976 as far as editing goes, but some of the shots I did in 60fps, 59.94, in order to use slow motion. Prelude doesn't give you the option for 59.94 or 60fps with the 175x codec. Letlive Speak Like You Talk Rar.

Do I still select 175x 23.976 for the transcode for those files and just bring it into PP just like I do the other files and then actually change the frame rate inside PP using 'Interpret Footage - Assume this frame rate' in order to make it work correctly? Otherwise I am not sure how to bring a 60fps video into my 23.976 timeline without screwing it up. For the record, I have always used interpret footage in the past and changed it from 59.94 to 23.976 in order to achieve slow motion and keep all frame rates in line. I just am afraid to put something in a 23.976 timeline that wasn't actually recorded at 24fps. I have done this in the past, but I didn't know if this was wrong to do and if it was messing things up.

My second to last question (I promise!) is about the nationally televised shows. I will find out when I get there next month what the frame rates for the shows are, but I am assuming that they will likely be 30fps, or 29.97. Just like with 60fps, DNxHD 175x does not have a codec for 29.97. If that's the case, then should I not use 175x and instead use something else, like 220x? Also, is there any real difference between 23.976 and 24, 29.97 and 30 and 59.94 and 60fps? I don't quite understand the difference between whole frame rates like 24 and partial frame rates like 23.976. My cameras say they are shooting at 24p, but I've always gone with 23.976 when editing because I read to do so.