which of these options will give the best video quality

[UNCMo96]

I coordinate a yearly presentation for my hospital where we interview families of patients and talk about their experiences. For families that cannot participate in person I usually obtain interviews that I record on my phone or video camera/DSLR and then edit in iMovie to make a presentation.

This year with COVID everyone is virtual so the meeting will be on Webex. With the issues of connectivity we'd like to prerecord the interviews before the presentation. Which of the following will have better video quality:

1. Have the families record video of themselves and upload the video to us.
2. Do a zoom/webex/whatsapp/facetime with the family and screen record from my end. (Any advantage in video quality between any of these modalities?)

Thanks!

 

[casperes1996]

From purely a technical perspective, option 1 would give superior image quality. Doing it over Zoom or other would go through that tool's video compression which would depend on internet speed, and then another pass of compression by the screen recording. But it may be more convenient so question is if the difference in video quality really matters, since I'm not assuming the people you're interviewing have great cameras anyway, so coming out of a laptop webcam or something I'm not sure the difference will really be that noticeable honestly