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Converting from MP4 without loosing quality
Hey guys, so one of my clients gave me a high quality MP4 movie file to edit into 30 second promos.
Since Final Cut Pro 6 does not support MP4 files, I converted in into .AVI and the program compressed it along the way (I used MPEG Stream clip). I started editing until I test exported and the quality looked like sh*t.
Is their a way I could convert an MP4 file into something FCP will recognize without compressing it and without loosing any quality?
-Thanks
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4 Replies
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Hi Boris,
AVI is even worst for FC than MP4.
if you want to extract the most quality out of the MPG4 the best option would be Apple 8b Uncompress,
although you would get very big files.
Try Proress (no HQ).
rafael -
AVI seems like a strange choice… Pro Res all the way.
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Thanks for the response Rafael.
I am converting it into Proress 422 right now. It looks pretty good.
But I never heard of Apple 8g Uncompressed. What is the best converted to convert into Apple 8g?
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MPGStreamplic is the application to do the conversion.
The MP4 your are managing are 8b YUV, so to extract the full quality without further re-compression 8b Uncompress would be the best codec.
But huge files.
Proress is 10b and makes smaller files will keeping the quality.
rafael
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