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  Exporting PAL in a world of Macs

  Posted by Ole Schell on March 26, 2013 at 4:10 pm

  Hey Folks,
  A client in Europe has asked me to deliver a music video in PAL and in two different Codecs.

  1) (FULL HD FORMAT) PAL – Mpg fullHD – Apple ProRes 4.2.2 QuickTime – 1920 x 1080 x 25 fps at 50mb/s with uncompressed audio 48Khx / 16bit at –10 dB.

  2) PAL 16:9 Anamorphic – 720 x 576 -x 25fps – Compression: MPEG IMX 625/50 a 30 megabit ps with uncompressed audio 48Khx / 16bit at –12 dB.

  Anything similar to prores I could do? And for the second one I could use some guidance too. Can we match this one?
  Many thanks guys!

  Ole Schell replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  March 27, 2013 at 12:39 pm

  [ole schell] “1) (FULL HD FORMAT) PAL – Mpg fullHD – Apple ProRes 4.2.2 QuickTime – 1920 x 1080 x 25 fps at 50mb/s with uncompressed audio 48Khx / 16bit at –10 dB.”

  You really need a Mac to deliver ProRes. Search this forum for the last time I said this and several people pointed to “products” that can create ProRes on a PC. None of them worked for me and none of them are sanctioned by Apple and all I believe are illegal and in violation of the Apple EULA by reverse engineering the ProRes codec without Apple’s consent. In short, if you need to work with Mac editors, just buy a Mac.

  Having said that, the first part of that format says “PAL – Mpg fullHD” MPG is not ProRes so it sounds like you can deliver full MPEG2 or ProRes in which case render using MainConcept MPEG2 starting with the HDV 1080-50i template and changing the Width to 1920, the Level to High, and select Constant Bit-rate and set it to CBR 50,000,000. That should produce an acceptable MPEG2 FULL HD file.

  [ole schell] “2) PAL 16:9 Anamorphic – 720 x 576 -x 25fps – Compression: MPEG IMX 625/50 a 30 megabit ps with uncompressed audio 48Khx / 16bit at –12 dB.”

  You can deliver this as Sony MXF with the PAL MPEG IMX 50 Widescreen template changing the bit-rate to 30(CBR).

  ~jr

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  Ole Schell

  March 27, 2013 at 4:42 pm

  Hey John,
  Do you remember me? Four years ago I was about to jump off a bridge trying to deliver a documentary film to distributors. I had all kinds of problems and you called me and spend a couple of hours talking me through it. I will never forget that.
  So nice of you!
  I will give this a shot and report back!
  All the best,
  Ole

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