• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  redcamera to MiniDV

  Posted by Ben Oliver on February 2, 2009 at 8:41 pm

  I need to make a dvcam tape of a 30 second commercial that we shot on the red camera.

  The master file is

  apple proress 422 2048×1024
  16b 48k audio

  All of my renders look really bad. Like, worse than if we had shot it on minidv. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?> Ive tried compressor, fcp settings, etc.

  -Ben

  Rafael Amador replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rob Grauert

  February 3, 2009 at 1:05 am

  hmm…what your export settings? Does RED record square pixels. You may need to make sure the export has non-square pixels. I’d look at that first.

  And, are you checking the tape on a broadcast monitor as opposed to a computer monitor? I’ve down-converted DVCProHD to DVCPro 50, and it does look bad on the computer, but it looks fine on a broadcast monitor when I’m working in FCP.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Rafael Amador

  February 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  Hi Ben,
  You have to crunch a lot of information, so try to set FC to do the task in the best possible conditions.
  I guess you just had dropped the RED footage in an NTSC DV sequence. Isn’t?
  Set your DV sequence with Field order: NONE.
  Set “render all YUV material in High Precision” and “Motion Effects Rendering: BEST”.
  This should help with crunching 422/10b-2K to DV.
  This process will take time.
  However If you could capture the RED footage to DV through an AJA or BM you would get a better downconversion and in RT.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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