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HDV captured in FCP, want to demux in PPRO
So I’m editing a full length documentary for my friend that directed it, he has about 70 tapes so far of footage and unfortunately he captured about 15 or 20 of them in FCP’s HDV codec. I converted a handful of them to Pro Res HQ but i would rather have the files in 25 Mbps MPEG’s captured through PPRO than 180-220 Mbps Pro Res files, is there any way to demux the files without errors or losing any quality and if i do, will it it stay at approximately the same size as it would be if i captured it through premiere? i would prefer a program with a gui that i could batch encode, i have already tried Avanti, Avidemux, MPEG Streamclip, FFMpeg, the SUPER interface and more. I don’t have Cineform, but I would get that if the files remain close to 25 Mbps or so. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m not used to having to deal with all this transcoding and demuxing before I edit, I’m used to editing everything natively right when I get the footage.
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The original MPEG compression of the HDV has been lost when you convert to ProRes. Besides, I wouldn’t advise re-compressing footage – you’re bound to loose quality. I would reccomend taking the captured HDV footage that FCP captured and using Adobe Media Encoder (on a mac with ProRes installed) transcoding it to ProRes LT. There’s no reason you need to be using ProRes HQ with an HDV source. LT will work just fine! That’ll get you the closer to the data rate you want, and perserve the original footage the best.
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oh thank you, I’ll convert to pro res lt from now on, I didn’t even think of that before bc I was worried it was lossy, thanks!
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Yes, convert to ProRes LT – ProRes and ProRes HQ is designed for multi-generational workflows where loss can occur. If you’re just editing and then doing a color pass, LT will work perfectly. LT was actually designed for projects with tons of footage, like reality shows or documentaries.
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