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Using Apple ProRes 422 but in bin window I’m seeing DVC Pro as compressor
I’m admittedly an HD newby. The material was shot 1280×720 30p and I am using that as the basis for an Apple ProRes 422 import setting. But when I import the bin field “compressor” lists DVCPro HD 720p60 as the compressor and the frame size is 960×720. I have been back and forth through the settings and think I have everything lined up as it should be, and the default sequence in the project shows the correct settings, so, well, I’m confused.
Peter Shwartz
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What camera did you shoot this with? how did you import/capture the footage?
Shane
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Shane:
I’m not the shooter, but the camera is a Panasonic HPX 500. I used the FCP Log and Transfer window to import the media into Final Cut.
Peter Shwartz
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That camera shoots DVCPRO HD to P2. That format cannot be converted to ProRes when you import. Only AVCIntra on P2 can be converted to ProRes upon import. If you want it to be ProRes, you have to encode after. But I would suggest not. Work with the footage as DVCPRO HD.
Shane
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Shane:
Thanks. Last question: My other principal shooter has a Sony XDCAM and so I’m trying to find a format that will enable me to easily use material from each camera in the same sequences without significant rendering. The end result of this project (we hope) will be broadcast. Any suggestions?
Peter Shwartz
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Import the XDcak as ProRes. Then you have two I-Frame formats. But then where you go from there depends on your finishing workflow. How you will be color correcting and outputting.
Shane
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Many thanks for your time here and I confess that I’m not sure this kind of back and forth is suitable for these forums, but, rather than ask for blank advice, am I correct in guessing that I will be able to use the material from each cam in an “offline” sequence, and be able to show it to the client, but that at the stage when color correcting and output need to be considered I will have to make some choices that will require either the XDcam material or the P2 material go through some kind of rendering process? Or am I running myself into bigger issues than that with trying to combine these two?
If you want to direct me to some other source of answers that would be fine, but in the reading I’ve done so far I haven’t been able to come across something that addresses this particular issue.
Peter Shwartz
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XDcak … LOL. An unintentional Freudian slip Shane? I know you’re not a fan 🙂
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Posting from iPhone. Errors happen.
Shane
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[Peter Shwartz] “am I running myself into bigger issues than that with trying to combine these two? “
Duh! Why are you starting out with two distinctly different formats? It is incredibly naive to think that
the post process is going to go smoothly. Do yourself a favor. Insist that this project start off on the right foot… that is, by NOT mixing and matching every codec ever invented.This is common sense. You’re essentially asking: “I have a brand new car. Can I swap out two of my four tires for a different brand and size? Sure you CAN… but you’re not going to get the same performance the designers intended.
Mark
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Oh boo … I was hoping it was a new format 🙂
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