• Avid Media Composer

  AVID QT export to be opened in FCP

  Posted by Brad Stanger on October 5, 2010 at 5:40 am

  I have to export a QT of a show, 720 DVCPRO HD 23.976, to be opened in FCP for closed captioning. Tried uncompressed, the blacks look great, but the files too large. I was asked to export using 720 DVCPRO HD compression, but I am only given standard def DVCPRO options in the compression pull down menu. What would be the best compression to use for best quality and a seamless import into FCP, not needing a render for playback?

  Thank you for the time,
  Brad

  John Pale replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ashton Evetts

  October 5, 2010 at 6:46 pm

  Have you tried an Avid same as source. If the avid codes are installed on your mac, this may be a solution. Another option is FCP won’t take in the file, throw it in compressor and make it an apple pro res 422.
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  John Pale

  October 7, 2010 at 4:10 am

  [Brad Stanger] “What would be the best compression to use for best quality and a seamless import into FCP, not needing a render for playback?”

  There isn’t one, coming from DVCPRO-HD.

  If the person receiving the file has the Avid Codec installed, you can export DNxHD, or Avid DV100 (Avid’s version of DVCPRO-HD).
  Both will require transcoding in Apple Compressor or rendering to an FCP friendly codec in the FCP timeline.

  Unfortunately, Apple does not let you encode to ProRes without having FCP installed on your system.

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