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AVCHD to ProRes
Hi,
My first post here although I’ve already learned a lot by reading some of the existing threads.
Hopefully someone here can help me with this question. If I ingest AVCHD footage into one of the ProRes formats does the conversion process do colour smoothing/interpolation? To put the question in context, I am looking at doing some Chroma keying and am wondering whether I should be preceding the keyer with 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 colour smoothing.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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As your footage was originated 4:2:0, it will always carry this limitation in chroma info, so the smoothing will probably help.
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Yeah, I was just wondering whether the ingest to ProRes process actually did the smoothing to 4:2:2.
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I suspect the answer is that it does do the smoothing. I just found this in the Apple ProRes White Paper
“All Apple ProRes 422 formats can support 4:2:0 or 4:1:1 sources by upsampling the chroma to 4:2:2 prior to encoding.”
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You can try to convert MTS to Prores 422 codec
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