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Shane Ross article on uprezzing using Compressor
I had a link at one time to an article written by Shane Ross on using Compressor to uprezz SD files to HD. For the life of me I can’t find it. Would anyone have a link to this? I remember he was using footage of a ship as a demo.
Scott Davis
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Click on Shane’s head above (lightly please, so as not to induce a headache) and you can easily find his tutorial/article on that subject.
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That tutorial was my first, and it isn’t on the Cow. It can be found here:
https://pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov
That shows how to go to DVCPRO HD, but you can make the final ProRes or whatever you need. Just not HDV..
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Thanks Shane, I am about to dive head first into doing a whole lot of this. I have a lot of archival material that are Qts that I need to get to 1080i. I am debating whether to use Compressor or lay out all my SD QTs in a sequence and put to Beta tape; then recapture using the Kona 3 to do the uprezz. If you had roughly 150 QT files to upconvert what would you do?
Scott Davis
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Are the QTs in some regular format? Like Uncompressed 8 bit, or DV, or DV50? God, I think I would send them all to Compressor and spend a week crunching while I worked on other things.
Shane
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I only wish!!! Literally without exagerating the Qts are every format I can think of. MJPEG, DV, ProRess, a Blackmagic codec, etc. etc.
Tell me if this is idiotic or genius. I have cut in all the “Master” QTs into the offline cut. The cut is now locked and I am moving onto the online. I was thinking of taking the offline cut, duplicating the sequence, deleting everything except the QT archival material, laying that out to Beta, and then re-capturing from that Beta the clips and use the Kona to do the uprezz.
Scott Davis
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THAT is pretty genius. That is what I did before the Kona upconverted. Strung out all my SD footage, output to digibeta, upconverted via Terranex, recaptured.
Good call.
Shane
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You could also remove all but the clips that needed uprezzing and then media manage the sequence using the batch recompress option setting a HD preset? That way you would also have handles, and preserve time code for future processing.
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Hi Shane,
I’ve been digging around looking for your tutorial on uprezzing using Compressor — the link I’ve found (https://pistolerapost2.com/shaneross/DVto_DVCPROHD.mov) seems to be dead. Any chance that is still out there somewhere? Or you have another post/tutorial that breaks this process down into steps?
I’ve got a basic iMac/Macbook Pro FCP 6 set-up, so hardware conversion isn’t an option, and I want to make sure I’ve got Compressor configured properly before I get it cranking. I’m finishing up a low budget 60 min doc, with 90+% of the footage shot in HDV and some archival footage that is SD NTSC and PAL.
Thanks for your help,
Bill
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