• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  The best way to export HD video to uncompressed?

  Posted by Henrik Andersson on February 15, 2010 at 9:17 pm

  Hi,

  I work with FCP 6.01
  and DVC pro hd 720p 25PN material.

  II guess that the best way to export the material for grading and aftereffects work is to make a quicktime movie and uncheck recompress and make it selfcontained.

  But since the PC world does not accept the quicktimemovie (with the FCP symbol) I´m told that the best thing is to export the film as uncompressed 8-bit.

  I have done this using quicktime conversion but I wonder if that was the best way to go.
  Is there a loss in quality compared to if I could export a Quicktime movie (=make a copy of the source material in exactly the same quality )

  I´ve noticed a quality indication set to medium in the exporting dialog using quicktimeconversion > ucompressed but there is no where I can set the quality setting in the uncompressed dialog.

  I hope this isn´t too confusing.

  The thing I want to know is:

  What is the best way to export my HD material if i can´t do a quicktimemovie ?
  ( since it does not play in the PC world )

  Thanks a lot. / Henrik

  Henrik Andersson replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  February 15, 2010 at 10:25 pm

  You don’t actually come out and say it but – You want to export a clip for use on a WIN machine?
  Windows won’t play DVCPRO HD codec as you have figured out.
  Yes, export 8 bit uncompressed would be the best route.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta
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  Henrik Andersson

  February 23, 2010 at 6:52 pm

  Thank you !

  The thing i was thinking of was the medium quality indication in the uncompressed dialog but I guess It is maximum quality anyway.

  / Henrik

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