Basic Question… Convert to ProRes422?

[Rafael Amador]

[Bryan Mailer] “I am editing a great deal of DV NTSC footage that sampled as .AVI files.”
Don’t go the Prores way.
There is an easier and faster way to make your AVI/DV working well on FC and without any quality lost.
You just need to rewrap them as QT/DV.
You can do it just by using the “Save as..” in QT player or in MPGStreamclip.
That just rewrap the A/V information inside the AVI, without any rendering.
You get plain DV/QT.
Of course, when you “Save as..” do it as a “Self-contained movie”, no “Reference Movie”.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Bryan Mailer]

Would just opening the source file in QT and simply Ctrl-S (Save) do the trick? Is it necessary to Save As a new file? I have a number of clips, all 60 minutes long and if “Save” will work, it will be nice not to have to re-link all the editing files in FCP.

Thanks for the tip.

[Rafael Amador]

[Bryan Mailer] “Would just opening the source file in QT and simply Ctrl-S (Save) do the trick?”
“Ctrl-S” is not any function (may be on PC).
“Cmd-S” is “Save”, but you need “Save as..”. That’s: “Cmd-Shift-S”.

[Bryan Mailer] ” Is it necessary to Save As a new file?”
Sure.
You can’t change all the “envelope” without writing a new file.
Is not just changing the file extension.

[Bryan Mailer] “I have a number of clips, all 60 minutes long and if “Save” will work, it will be nice not to have to re-link all the editing files in FCP.”
The new file will have the same name, length etc, but different extension and probably some other metadata (reel number?). Not sure if FC will re-link it.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Bryan Mailer]

Thanks for the advice. Will probably save me about five years of converting, compressing and rendering.

[Bryan Mailer]

If I have Quicktime .MOV files and I am still running into these ridiculous re-renders, is there something else that can be done? Is .MOV the ideal format for heavy editing?

[Rafael Amador]

[Bryan Mailer] “If I have Quicktime .MOV files and I am still running into these ridiculous re-renders, is there something else that can be done? Is .MOV the ideal format for heavy editing?”
If you have to render QT files, is because the footage and the sequence setting don’t fully match.

[Bryan Mailer] “Is .MOV the ideal format for heavy editing?”
Qt files (.mov) are the only directly supported by FC.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Shane Ross]

[Rafael Amador] “If you have to render QT files, is because the footage and the sequence setting don’t fully match.”

Meaning…you MUST make the sequence match the clip format. To do that make a new sequence, drop a clip into it, when FCP asks “do you want to make the sequence match the clip settings?”…click YES or OK.

If you put a clip into a timeline and you immediately have to render, that’s your first clue that something isn’t right…and you need to fix it before you proceed.

Shane
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[Bryan Mailer]

Thanks for the tips.

It now seems that if I want to experiment with upscaling the footage to something playable as “HD or the best facsimile” that conversion to ProRes422 becomes necessary.

If I understand correctly.

[Rafael Amador]

[Bryan Mailer] “It now seems that if I want to experiment with upscaling the footage to something playable as “HD or the best facsimile” that conversion to ProRes422 becomes necessary.”
If you are upscaling, the best option is to go to Prores to avoid further compression.
When you use Compressor with the “Frame Control ON”, the process is done in Floating Point, so makes sense to put out a 10b codec.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com