• Adobe After Effects

  4k and Final Cut, Blu-Ray question

  Posted by Jerry Sneede on February 5, 2009 at 4:54 pm

  I was just informed we’re going to need to get footage off of Blu-Ray, and edit in 4K. I know nothing about this. Does FCP do this 4K? Does the Mac take a Blu-Ray player internally? Please, someone help me get started here.

  Thanks!

  Jan Sherlink replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jan Sherlink

  February 6, 2009 at 9:36 am

  First question would be….
  … why 4K ?
  BluRay is a compressed HD (1080) format,
  so upscaling to 4K will loose a lot of quality.

  FCP probably can handle it but how about your Video-card ?
  Aja and Blackmagic have 2K-cards,
  how about monitoring in 4K ?
  You should edit offline in 1080 or 2K and make the online in some expensive 4K company.
  browse the RED forums, it’s all 4K over there 😉

  With 4K 4.4.4 you’l need a lot of ultra-fast storage !
  Xsan’s and fibre would do.

  cya,

  Jan

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