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Canon c300 Post Workflow for Broadcast
Just shot a spot with the Canon c300, everything is looking good with the plugin and utility, and it’s importing into FCP fine.
Question…if I’m looking to create a broadcast quality master, do I want to log and transfer with prores 422 or go native for the edit? There’s no sfx/greenscreen or anything like that, and I’ll be editing in FCP 6.0.6 on a MacBook Pro. Presumably, will look to go out to Color for grading. If I can cut it reasonably without proxies, I’d prefer to go that route.
My test for a 10 second clip yieled a 65MB prores 422 file, and a 150MB native (MPEG-2) file.
Thanks!
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I would go ProRes, 422 is fine as the C300 is 8 bit. As long as you have a decent amount of fast external storage you shouldn’t need to go the proxy route. If its a commercial spot then I assume you wont have a huge amount of rushes and the transcode is pretty fast so you should be fine.
best wishes
Neil
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Awesome, thank you Neil. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t downgrading the image twice by going to prores, then color, then master. And if I am, it sounds to be a negligible amount.
I had spot checked a test clip transfered as both native and prores 422 clips, and they looked very similar at 100%. At 400% I could see a tiny bit more artifacting in the prores, but nothing that looked like a deal breaker.
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Thanks for your posts on this subject — would there be any gain at all by transcoding raw C300 footage at 1080p/50Mbps to ProRes422HQ as a archival/master?
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