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Need Help Exporting 1080 Footage
Hello all, I need some help with a project I’m working on. I’m working on 6 :30 commercials that were shot with the RED One camera. I brought the footage in as 1080 Pro Res 422. The project is finished, and now it is time to send to stations for broadcast. I figured the best way to make sure everyone is happy is to give each 96 stations a data DVD with two files for each spot. One file will be a full quality Pro Res 422 1080 file, and the other will be a regular DV/NTSC 720×480 quicktime file. I don’t have a Beta deck, so I feel this is the best way to do this.
My problem is trying to figure out how to export the timeline to a DV/NTSC 720×480 quicktime movie without it being squashed, preferably just fitting into a 720×480 movie with letter bars. I realize I could just export the full res files, bring them back into FCP, slap them on a DV/NTSC timeline, and then export them again. The problem is that I’m dealing with 6 commercials for each 96 locations across the country. I’ll save you the math, that’s 576 spots!!! I really don’t feel like doing that for all files. I need a way that I can batch export all my sequences out of compressor at be able to make each sequence export both of these formats, without squashing the DV/NTSC file. Let me know what you guys can come up with. Much appreciated!!! Thanks…
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6 Replies
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First, I don’t think you are safe in your assumption. You should be asking what formats stations can and will accept. DV is a less than desirable format if you spot has graphics in it.
But I have found the only do way to do from HD (1080i to SD) is exporting through compressor because there is a field order shift when going from HD to SD.
This is going to be time consuming any way you go.
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So you’re saying that I should go through and check with all 96 stations to see how they would like the spots? That seems like a pointless process that will cause way too many headaches.
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Well 1st thing a ProRes file can only be used on a FCP 6 workstation, nothing else. Not even FCP 5, so unless they are FCP and up-to-date that file is useless. Then DV is not really a broadcast standard, some stations will accept it but it is on the lowend of the SD scale. If I shot something with a RED camera and I found out it was delivered as a DV file for broadcast I would be PISSED! But hey that’s just me.
If you were sending out DBetas or even BetaSP tapes I wouldn’t recommend calling but anything like files I would, but then again that is me. I would rather waste a couple minutes on the phone than risk sending files that are not usable or incur some kind of extra processing charge for me or my client.
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If you were to send a SD file, what would it be?
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Uncompressed 10 Bit and for the HD you would have to go to Uncompressed 8 bit to fit on a DVD-R. I love the DVCProHD codec but once again not every editing system can use it (but a lot more than ProRes)
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If all you’re missing is a beta deck, and you don’t feel like calling 96 stations, why not rent a beta deck and knock them out.
This would probably take just as much time (if not more) as calling the stations and burning 96 individual DVD’s.
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