45min sequence to Compressor from FCP7….do’s and donts ?

[Martin Clark]

Thanks Guys,

Really good feedback…will let you know how things progress!

All the best

Martin

[Martin Clark]

Just to clarify Rafael,

I´m exporting to a quicktime file and throwing that into compressor, so not using fcp at all….is this right ?

Thanks

Martin

[David Dubé]

Very interesting post Rafael, I guess I didn’t look at it this way. So if I edited with no effects, text or whatsoever, on output FCP would just “restitch” the video without recompressing. Then no generation lost. But as soon as I add text or effects, in rendering it recompress it, so better go for a loss less format. So basically, if I edit let’s say, in ProRes 422, add some texts and effects and then output in ProRes 422, my footage will be degraded one generation ?