• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Converting DV/DVCPRO 50 clips to Apple Prores

  Posted by Doug Jones on October 8, 2018 at 10:53 pm

  Hi all:

  I’m hoping some Finals Cut Pro genius can help me.

  I have been uploading archival video clips to Shutterstock successfully for months. The codec of my clips is DV/DVCPRO 50. My Final Cut Pro is Studio 7

  Suddenly this month Shutterstock quit accepting this codec. I cannot figure out how to convert my 720×480 clips to a codec they will accept. They listed about a dozen acceptable codecs, but most were Apple Prores 422 HQ or LT or 4444

  When I try to export one of my 720×480 DV/DVCPRO 50 clips to any of the Apple Prores options, the export fails with an error message. Any suggestion how I might be able to convert/export these clips and continue my uploads with Shutterstock?

  Shutterstock’s “contributor care” department has been non-responsive. I am halfway through uploading 15,000 clips. 7,000 are uploaded and online and now I am stopped and cannot continue to upload the remaining 8,000 clips. Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Regards,

  Doug

  Doug Jones replied 7 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Nick Meyers

  October 9, 2018 at 4:15 am

  “the export fails with an error message”

  what are you using to export?
  i would suggest DaVinci Resolve.
  it’s free, and good at doing batch exports.
  Mpeg Streamclip is also free, and good at batches.

  nick
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  Mark Suszko

  October 9, 2018 at 3:35 pm

  To add to the good suggestions here, FFmpeg now has a GUI front end; for a few bucks, it will replace mpeg streamclip in cases where your OS upgrade kills that app. But I’d first go with batch converts in Compressor, if you already have that.
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  Doug Jones

  October 12, 2018 at 9:06 pm

  Hi Dave:
  Thanks for your suggestion on using compressor to get the convert DVPro50 to Apple ProresHQ. Unfortunately I have never used Compressor before and it is a pretty complex piece of software. I am at the stage where I have learned how to add the clips, I have created a Shutterstock ftp destination but when I try to submit it says One or more jobs do not have a source media file assigned – yet when I go to the top tabs, Job > source > file it shows the clips and I select them as the source, yet I still get the same error message. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
  Doug

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