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PAL Codec Suggestions
Hello Forum,
I’m going to start delivering promos (HD and SD) to China soon and was wondering if anyone had any codec suggestions. I’ve never worked in PAL before so any HD and SD suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I’m going to install a SAN so we’ll have a speedy array. Also, I believe we’ll be delivering file based promo’s.
Thanks,
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ProRes.
Shane
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Thanks Shane. I assumed I would end up using ProRes as well. I suppose when I install my AJA card it will give me all the additional PAL ProRes codecs I need.
Thanks,
Mike -
Without the AJA card you should have ProRes 422 Easy setups for PAL. Just change the Easy Setup options to All frame rates or just 25 to show ProRes @ 25fps
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Last time I checked, ProRes in PAL was unreliable. So, if you work in 720×576 @ 25 fps (4×3 or 16×9 FHA) I’d do some testing before going down that road. You might have gamma issues still.
ProRes works great in HD or 2K @ 25 fps however. What we tend to do is work in ProRes at 1080p or 2K and have out PAL-masters in 10-bit uncompressed.
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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Looking into it now it seems I can work fine with ProRes 422HQ in FCP / AE with round-tripping just as well as with 10-but uncompressed. Maybe the issue has been resolved or it is / was a local issue in Color.
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Erik Lindahl
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Won’t they need a Mac w/ FCP to read pro-res?
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
You can get the ProRes codec for Windows as well but I presume the question was regarding internal work-flow. File-based delivery can be a number of formats (QuickTime, MPEG2, MPEG4 etc) but that doesn’t change that you can work internally with ProRes.
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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Quicktime 7.6 has a ProRes decoder built in. Any computer with QT 7.6 can view ProRes files.
Shane
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Thanks for the advice and suggestions everyone. I was speaking about internal workflow but delivery is in question as well. I’ll have to wait and see what the delivery specifications are before I can make a final determination on that. Thanks everyone.
Thanks,
Mike
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