Animation Codec w/ Blackmagic Card

[Lisa Rolley]

Hey Guys thanks for the schooling, so i deliver usually to Digi beta but I do also do daily web & DVD delivery to clients and agencys so what would you guys recommend for these workflows?

I am just beginning to get my footing in this and things are busy where i work so a workflow recipe is what i am looking for.

look forward to hearing from you and have a great weekend

best
Lisa

[Jeremy Garchow]

I encourage you to maintain a 10bit pipeline. With ProResHQ, you will be fine with your single SATA drive (and could probably get away with 10bit UNcompressed, but I’d suggest 2 SATAs raided together to maintain throughput and file size accumulation should you decide Uncompressed). ProResHQ will allow a compressed 10bit workflow and fantastic quality. But that’s just my opinion and you can and will hear many others. ProRes functionality requires Final Cut Studio 2.

Good luck and I respect your commitment to maintain quality where you have control of it.

Jeremy

[Lisa Rolley]

Thanks again everyone,

So for SD workflow uncompressed 10 bit is ideal and if there is alpha info then i just drop the animation QT into the 10 it timeline and render – i will not loose the alpha info?

What about for HD workflows – were you saying that this is where ProRes422HQ comes in?

The reason for the questions is that my office just got the blackmagic HD extreme card and we are running A single 8core MacPro with 2 “personalities” sharing the same 4TB dedicated of edit storage for FCP & Avid Mojo.

any advice would be great

thanks
Lisa

[Jeremy Garchow]

The Apple uncompressed codecs (i.e. 10bit) does not carry an alpha.

You can use ProResHQ for SD or HD. It too, does not have an alpha.