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Onlining a project with DPX??
Hello,
We’re branching into the whole 2k world with FCP.
We use Final Touch to grade, which works perfectly… however the real difficulty comes beforehand whenever we need to conform a project using DPX files (pregrade).
I know AJA have a DPX to quicktime converter, which is a bit rubbish as it throws out the header info.
I’ve also tried out Sebsky tools….
Have any of you kind contributors worked out a way of conforming your 2k projects efficiently without having to go down these roads?
Some people are telling me theres a way of embedding the header info into the converted quicktime (from DPX) through Shake.
Any thought would be most welcome….Joe
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I’ve done a DPX to Quicktime conversion using the AJA DPX to Quicktime utility (latest version) and it did retain the timecode in the Quicktime clip.
You may want to try the latest version which you can download at the AJA support website.
-chrispy
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thanks for the quick reply crispy….
I’m a bit confused by AJA’s support team on this one…
So you could conform you’re offline with the new DPX’s?
what did you do when AJA’s DPX2QT prompted you for a source ID?
And did it have keycode info in there as well?
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Actually what I did was I had a bunch of DPX files that was captured from a HD D5 tape and those DPX files had timecode embedded in them. I used the AJA DPX to Quicktime converter to convert them into a Quicktime movie clip and when I check the timing info of the clip in FCP, or if you enable the timecode overlay, you can see the timecode on the clip, which correspond to the timecode on the DPX files.
However if you wanna take this approach for offline editing, DPX -> Quicktime –> FCP offline, then you will probably want to convert the Quicktime clips to an offline format, ie. DVCProHD, as the converted Quicktime clips will be in the AJA 10bit RGB codec format which takes up disk space and you need a fast disk array to play them back but if it’s for online purpose then just make sure your disk array has enough juice for the playback.
-chrispy
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Hey Chrispy,
Soo.. What happens to the dpx file when it’s converted to quicktime? Is there loss? What about when you need to export?
Thanks! Chris
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