Best compression from FCP for Premier Pro

[Francis Hughes]

I’m not sure if this is off any use but incase it is I thought I should post. I’ve just been speaking to someone that uses PP and during our chat he happened to mention that PP captures as .avi. Perhaps exporting out as the least compressed avi you can might be best. You may be in luck and PP might be happy with the footage captured via final cut. Hope that has given you an avenue of research.

[David Roth weiss]

[Neil Weaver] “Which codec will work best for the students?”

The very best codec to transcode from HDV is ProRes, but it’s decode only on the Windows side, meaning you can play it back and edit, but you have to render and export to another codec. ProRes is a both efficient and high-quality, making it a great choice.

The only other real choice is the animation codec, which is very high-quality, but not particularly efficient, with rather large file sizes.

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[Dennis Radeke]

If they’re using Mac for Premiere Pro, you can probably just move the original ProRes clips over. If you have captured as Apple’s HDV, you will need to change it to something else unless they have FCP on the system as well.

If they’re on Windows, then you can still export ProRes or some flavor of Quicktime or AVI.

Hope this helps,
Dennis

[Michael Gissing]

All this fuss about file conversion. Just recapture the tapes in Premiere. Sometimes the simple old fashion ways are fast and best.

Next we will have multiple posts about moving a mac disk to a windows PP system or not having that codec installed warnings etc etc.

[Dennis Radeke]

Ha! 😉