• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  resolution matching

  Posted by Dawud Ali on December 29, 2010 at 10:27 pm

  thanks for your time i really appreciate it

  for the project im working on im using my recorded footage res which is
  720 x 576 DV PAL(sequence setting is same)

  at this point everything is fine

  PROBLEM: arise when i imported the only clip with the res
  1920 x 1080 H.264

  when i edit this footage on the time line even in the slightest it requires re-rendering (even thou it’s about 20seconds it freaking takes ages)

  SOLUTION: i don’t no how to but i supposes if i can match the lager file to the smaller file it might remove the continuous re-render issue, is that even possible?

  is there a way round this because it’s a green screen footage which i’m unable to re-shoot and im planning to use and hope it won’t throw up on me when it comes to a final render… meanwhile it will be render render render render render …..

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  Walter Biscardi

  December 29, 2010 at 10:45 pm

  [Dawud Ali] “PROBLEM: arise when i imported the only clip with the res
  1920 x 1080 H.264

  when i edit this footage on the time line even in the slightest it requires re-rendering (even thou it’s about 20seconds it freaking takes ages)”

  FCP does not edit H.264 natively. Your best bet to avoid re-rendering all the time is to simply convert the footage to DV PAL via Compressor BEFORE editing with it in FCP.

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  Dawud Ali

  December 29, 2010 at 11:39 pm

  thanks that worked but..

  i was wondering is there a way to convert it and keep the original res of 1920 x 1080?

  because when it converts to dv pal it changes res to 720 x something this cause the quality of the i age to drop dramatically and distorts the image since it’s now pushed together
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  Avital Pelakh

  December 29, 2010 at 11:50 pm

  I would imagine that the only way to keep the resolution would be to blow up the DV footage and change your sequence settings to the full resolution.

  Even if that one clip is in full resolution, once you export it with the sequence settings it’s going to compress it to DV settings anyway.
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  Dawud Ali

  December 30, 2010 at 12:20 am

  sorry i didn’t understand too well, do you mean i should make all the other clips big as the green screen clip? wouldn’t that just make the other DV footage suffer from distortion even more so when they are sort of low quality.

  im thinking the only other way would be to reshoot but i can’t do that so im going use the original file and hope it does render well at the end

  thanks for help

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