-
Best choice for offlining on FCP5
Just purchased a decklink extreme card and will offline a doc shot on BetaSP. Using FCP5 HD and dual G5, I’m now planning for storage requirements. The idea is to be able to go back to the Beta SPs later for conform, so now making choice of best offline format – JPEG or DV or what else? If I could use existing internal ATA drive(s) or external FW, that would be great for now. Pros and cons of any choice very much appreciated. If this has been answered many times before, please excuse and steer me there – I did a preliminary search.
Thanks in advance
-
8 Replies
-
I use Photo-JPEG at full rez and 35% quality. For me this is a great size/quality trade-off (about 20:1 compression from 8-bit uncompressed 422, roughly 1 MB/sec)
-
I read somewhere here that RT effects in FCP are not yet supported with JPEG?? Just beginning with FCP, spent the last many years on Avid and just now re-surfacing into a much changed NLE world so all input is very much appreciated.
Anyway, thanks very much for the tip and taking the time to reply –peter
-
[peterson] “I read somewhere here that RT effects in FCP are not yet supported with JPEG??”
You read correctly… Apparently Apple just hasn’t got around to RT support for JPEG yet.
-
Right, no RT on JPEG, but this is for offline, so we’re basically talking cuts and dissolves. I’m not so busy that I can’t afford to render out dissolves.
-
offline RT will give you realtime effects, plus any graphics you put on there are automatically resized to full when you recapture.
David 😀
-
Offline RT if you don’t have a lot of storage…. but if you can wrangle some extra Firewire drives, I’d go DV. We’ve been using it exclusively for offline on some 50+ projects. It looks great for offline and you’ve got plenty of RT.
-
Check for yourself, but watching offline RT gives me a headache
-
Offline RT is good if you have HUGE amouts of material and are low on disk-space. I really dislike the format since it isn’t even full resolution. Offline RT actually is a JPEG-breed codec, however, no other JPEG codecs will give you and RT which even for offlining is very annyoing for me. Sad, since JPEG gives you alot better Quality at lower bitrate than DV.
By suggestion is to stick with DV25. Full resoltuion and framerate, very compatible codec, gives you heaps of realtime effects and it’s quite size-friendly on your drives.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up