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Footage Question?
Greetings All I have a client that has ripped multiple scenes for DVD’s ranging from 60sec to 3 min he has 80 of these clips and there all in AVI format. Whats the best way to tackle this? AVI is slow in FCP and I keep getting crashes when I try to render I converted them to .dv but the file size is huge!!! any ideas?
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I don’t consider DV to be huge so there is no point in suggesting any other editing codec because they are all bigger than DV.
If you don’t convert to an editing codec you will have constant render issues. AVI is just a wrapper like Quicktime. What codec are the AVI files? Have you tried converting AVI to Quicktime with the same codec to see if it helps the crash render problem? It will still need rendering if it isn’t an editing codec that FCP understands.
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Well I’ve got it working now I’m using h.264 customs setting FCP seems to like it and now instead of a 3min clips being 400mb its only 8-10mb. I just wanted to avoid exports 80 clips out and tying up my computer for 15hours lol.
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H264 means you are transcoding the AVI (which was most likely mpeg2) to mpeg4. This is a poor workflow as it isn’t an editing codec either so it needs rendering.
Better would have been to re wrap the AVI mpeg2 to quicktime mpeg2 if you don’t mind the render. That way you aren’t wasting time and loosing quality transcoding it to H264.
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Greg,
The best you could do is to rip again the DVDs and convert the MPGs to QT.
Never to “.DV”. Those are files for iMovie.
As Michael points, don’t go to h264 because you may have the same problems on editing that with AVI.
If you want .
You are complaining that you are getting too big files (3 minutes = 400 MB).
This is quite low data rate when talking about a production codec.
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