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Speeding up dumping to QT Uncompressed?
Hello all,
Ive done a bunch of FCP toy projects, but Im somewhat new to doing big projects in FCP. Ive run into a problem thats driving me nuts.Basically, I have a bunch of clips that I captured straight from a DVCam. All 500-odd are on the timeline in order (no filters or anything). Im trying to dump the whole sequence so that I can work with it on a PC (Combustion).
Having played around with the various exports, it seems that doing QuickTime Uncompressed NTSC 8-bit is my best bet for moving the video without loosing quality, but for a 90 minute sequence, the export time is over 6 hours.
What can I do to speed this up? My dual g5 is pretty much maxed out spec-wise, so Im wondering if theres a DSP add-on card or some other widget I can buy to accelerate the process? Is there a different method of exporting I can use?
Any help would be appreciated.
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5 Replies
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SInce all your footage was captured at DV/NTSC quality, exporting as 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed is actually compressing the footage. Even if you go for the nearly lossless Animation codec you will be losing SLIGHT image quality.
If you export all the clips as DV/NTSC again, then you will not be losing ANY quality…just a digital transfer. Much like capturing it from the tape was a digital transfer.
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Ive dumped it out as a DV stream from Final Cut, but when playing it on a PC, it looks awful. Pixelated and artifacts everywhere.. I have the latest quicktime pro on the PC… Am I missing something?
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Not DV Stream. That is how iMovie captures. I said as DV/NTSC.
Also bear in mind that DV/NTSC is FULL RES QUALITY, and if the PC isn’t fast with a lot of RAM (or a fast Mac with a lot of RAM for that matter), then it will skip and pixelate.
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Yes, you are missing something. On the PC Ctrl-J (movie properties). Go to the video track and select high quality – tick “high quality enabled”. See the difference?
For some STUPID reason, Apple has set the PC QT played to default to low quality on all DV quicktime files.
QT 7 has a new setting that forces high quality on all files.
Regards
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THAT would explain a few things… Is that related to the screwy issue I found today with Uncompressed 8-bit showing up as half-screen on the PC? Looks fine in QT, but loading the .mov in another app, the 720×640 is split in half horizontally, top half is a stretched version of my video, bottom half is a green bar.
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