• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Codec

  Posted by Robbie Allen on May 31, 2007 at 6:41 pm

  Hi,

  I shoot time-lapse using stills cameras with timers. I’m just about to recut my reel, and I have a new(er) system to play with:

  Dual 2ghz G5
  4 GB RAM
  FCS 2 – and what a marvellous thing that is.

  Now, out of Shake (resizing, rotoscoping), I store my timelapse footage as best-quality 1920×1080 JPEG image sequences – apart from chromakey stuff, which is RAW. This is so it can be converted to whatever video format and framerate a client might want.

  Previously, I’d make DV quicktimes to edit a reel with – partly because my old G4 used firewire through a camera to monitor, partly because that’s about all it could deal with. But now I’d like to recut the reel; time to recode all the sequences.

  Any suggestions for a good codec to use? Libraries that have my work usually swear by photo-jpeg. I’d like to use Color and have as much latitude as possible, but isn’t everything squashed by JPEG already?
  Any point in using Prores 422?

  thanks in advance, Robbie
  http://www.lobsterpictures.tv

  Robbie Allen replied 19 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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