• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Uncompressed 10-bit 1920×1080 from a P2 card?

  Posted by Joel K. on January 20, 2009 at 9:45 pm

  Is this possible? I’m using FCP 6.0.5 on an intel Mac with a blackmagic decklink card. As of now I’m just doing an easy setup for Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 59.94 – 10Bit. When I go to the preferences menu in Log and Transfer the only choices I get are ProRes 422 and ProRes HQ 422. Thanks for the help.

  Shane Ross replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shane Ross

  January 20, 2009 at 11:20 pm

  Depends…what format did you shoot? P2 shoots a variety of formats, including DVCPRO HD (which is an 8-bit codec) and AVCIntra (which is a 10-bit codec). DVCPRO HD cannot be encoded as any other format…which is good. It imports lossless…there is native support in FCP for DVCPRO HD. AVCIntra is not natively supported by FCP, and needs to be transcoded to ProRes or ProRes HQ…both AVCIntra and ProRes are 10-bit codecs. And AVCIntra is a full raster 1920×1080 codec, where DVCPRO HD is 1280×1080 anamorphic.

  ProRes has all the quality of Uncompressed 10-bit HD, but the data rate of uncompressed SD, so it takes up far less space. Plus there are issues with the 10-bit UC codec on FCP (I don’t know specifics) but ProRes is a great option (just like DNxHD for Avid).

  Shane

  

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