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  What is Consolidate Transcode do?

  Posted by Milton Hockman on August 16, 2006 at 6:21 pm

  can someone tell me the purpose of Consolidate/Transcode and the difference between the two? Thanks

  Milton Hockman replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Hancock

  August 16, 2006 at 7:22 pm

  Consolidate: Take all the media used in a sequence + handles and make new clips of only that length. For example, you use 8 seconds of a 3 minute shot. You consolidate with 60 frame handles–now you have a 12 second clip and can delete the 3 minutes, freeing disk space while keeping your sequence online.

  Transcode: Change the resolution of Media. For example, you do your project in 2:1 and want to offline to edit off a firewire drive at home. Transcode to 15:1s. Now you have highly compressed footage that takes up much less space.

  Mike.
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  Milton Hockman

  August 16, 2006 at 8:14 pm

  thanks a lot!

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