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Initial sequence settings and how to work with found footage
I’m just putting together a music video as a home project. I have several clips from different online sources, and I would like to assemble them. I dont need the sequence to be in high definition, but would like to view it on a standard television without serious pixelation. I understand that some of my ‘found footage’ may not be of the same quality as my final output, and that’s fine. A lot of them are avis. What’s the best setting to use when initially creating my sequence? And what method should I use to create usable clips?
So far I have tried a 640 x 480 DV/DVCPRO sequence, then exported the clips via Quicktime (with Current Settings) to try to make them usable/previewable in the Canvas, but they are becoming far too large and even after I’ve exported them, then reimported them, I still get the “Needs Render” message in the Canvas Window and the clips keep freezing and then the app quits… ideas?
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7 Replies
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Try using the Easy Setup. Set it to DV/DVCPRO and then create a new sequence. Put your AVI files in the timeline and export them out. Then bring them back in to start editing.
-Russ
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DV NTSC is the easy set-up you should use.
DV footage requires approximately 228 Mbytes per minute or 14 Gbytes per hour.
This footage should reside on a drive other than your boot drive to increase system stability.
Best of luck.
Tom
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When you say “export them out”, whaddya mean? I have FCP 6 and I have a TON of options. I am using Apple Intermediate Codec.
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sorry, I meant i am using NTSC/DC
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So select easy set up DV NTSC. Create a new sequence. Drag the clips onto the new sequence and when it asks you if you want to change the sequence settings to match the clip, say no.
Then select file-export-QuickTime Movie and use current settings.
There are several different ways to do it, but this might me one of the easiest to explain.
-Russ
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OK, i did a test and that works fine, thanks. I have 5 hour long clips in the project, and instead of exporting them all, I’d like to go through them and make subclips out of the parts I am going to use. When I export them all in the timeline as one chunk, I lose the names I’ve given the subclips. Is there any way to export them as a batch, and keep the names? Will Compressor do this for me?
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Compressor might be the best option. You could also try FCP media manager or batch export.
Do a couple of tests to see what will work for you.
-Russ
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