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Single File to go “online” – a lil piece of eureka…
several more tests, and amazingly i’ve found that if i render out in ProRes HQ 1440, i get a “native” (no rendering required) file in my timeline, that is IF my timeline sequence is set to XDCam 1080i60. and this done via “easy setups”. go figure. i also made a DVCPro HD timeline sequence as well as even a ProRes HQ 1440 sequence, but the only one that required no additional rendering was the XDCam sequence.
so, i’m concluding that i will take my DVCPro HD timeline, which has HDCam (captured to DVCPro HD) and HDV (captured natively) footage, render it to a single QT file using ProRes HQ 1440, then put these single QT files on a new XDCam timeline. then take this project file and these QT files to the post house (assuming they have FCP 6, which i’m 99% sure they do) and dump them directly out to an HDCam master tape.
voila! no rendering at the post house. life will be good. i shall be paid. and by golly, people like me.
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hopefully this workflow will help someone else in their battles of confusion in this area….
thanks again!
mh
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Oh my. Sounds like you are introducing 3 different compression algorithms to your footage.
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I totally agree. Mortimer, there’s something wrong with your settings somewhere that aren’t carrying through.
Jeremy
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still messing with this…missed my online appointment today, but life should be better and more organized tomorrow…
in the meantime, the post house has told me they would prefer either the single files to be rendered out in DVCPro HD or HDTV 1080i 10 bit (this one i’ll let render overnight…), but i tried a few options today and i think i’m hitting on somethign.
before, i had been rendering my DVCPro HD project to a single QT file in the DVCPro HD codec…which would SEEM to be able to play back in that same timeline without additional rendering. not so. so today i rendered the project in smaller segments (like 5 different segments to output a 5 minute timeline). what i’m finding is that MOST of these 5 clips will play fine when put back on the timeline. the ones that require rendering have a 1920 x 1080 clip in those sections. that’s the only thing i can figure out as to why some of these would require rendering and some wouldn’t.
i’m going to go back and take those 1920 clips and convert them to 1440 clips and see if the single-clip-render problem goes away in those areas. i’ll keep you posted as to my progress…
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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nope, that doesn’t seem to be it…
“something” is causing an inconsistency in the render of QT files in the FCP DVCPro HD codec. sometimes they render out at 1280 x1080 files, other times 1920 x 1080. of course, the 1920’s need to be rendered when put back on a DVCPro HD timeline sequence.
hmmmmm…
maybe it’s just a “bug” with 6.0.1????
thanks again!
mh
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