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Pc final render
I am switching from fcp 7 to pp 5.5.
Question. When i finish an edit, along with savingvthe project files and media I typically save a high res render to have.
Seeing as how I cant render pro rez on a pc, what would the equivalent be??
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3 Replies
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Hi Benjamin,
Great question – for clarification – are you looking to be able to play this ‘anywhere’, or are you looking for keeping an editable ‘flat’ version? Is Quicktime .mov a requirement, or would MXF, MPEG/H.264 be a viable option?
-EricS
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I guess what I am looking for is a high resolution video file that if I ever need to render out a web version from, or a blu ray disc from, or play back to people on my 27 inch imac it will look as great as it ever can. Generally at the end of an edit I do in FCP7, I render out either an animation movie or a proresHQ movie depending on how much graphical content the piece has.
Quicktime would be nice, but not essential.
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If you don’t mind dropping to 8 bit, just render to h.264 (just crank the bitrate). Since Adobe works natively with it, importing it back in, or dropping it in ME/Encore works like a charm.
If you want to stick to MOV, you can stay in h.264, or pick Animation, Photo-JPEG, or various other codecs. If you need 10-bit lossless, I’d suggest an AJA codec. DNxHD (Avid) works fine, too.
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