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quick workflow for raw time lapse stills (Nikon D3S) into final cut
We are working on primarily RED 4K (so the aspect ratio is 1.77) footage, transcoded to 1920×1080 ProRes 422 (Proxy) in our project at 23.98fps.
A good amount of B-Roll time lapse footage was shot on the new Nikon D3S in NEF raw format, dimensions are 4256×2832 (works out to an aspect ratio of ~1.5).
The only way I have found to convert these stills to video for Final Cut is:
-Convert all NEFs to JPG in photoshop with the RAW Converter
-“Open Image Sequence” in QuickTime Pro
-Export Movie to QuickTime Movie –>
ProRes 422 (Proxy)
23.98fps
1920×1080
Scale: Letterbox (although really it pillar boxes)It then takes a good while to export… but then I can import it into the project with no rendering necessary, and the footage is scaled properly.
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There -has- to be a better way to do this.
I’d love to use MPEG StreamClip to batch process, but I can’t find a way to make the video come out at the proper aspect ratio without it stretching the image. If there was just a way to letterbox/pillarbox I’d be perfectly happy.
This is an insane workflow currently (the QuickTime one), that I can’t batch, so I literally have to sit at the machine for every time lapse (there are tons).
Can anyone offer advice on how to batch this? Or where the setting is to just letterbox to scale the footage properly in MPEG StreamClip?
Sorry this seems like so much information for such a simple issue.
Thank you for your help!!
-Sam
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