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converting seq tga to Quicktime
We are designing 3d animations in maya as seq tga images and want to drop them into FCP using a blackmagic Multibridge. This is being combined with live footage ingested from HD-CAM.
However it seems I need to render the TGA files when importing. What is the suggestion?Render out from maya using the blackmagic quicktime 10 bit codec and import into the FCP HD sequence? Or is there a way of converting TGA files to QT.
Im so used to TGA files that its hard to change!Thanks for any help
Paul
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8 Replies
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QT 7 will let you import a file sequence and then you can export to whatever QT format you want. But going straight from Maya to 10 bit HD would save a step.
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You don’t want to go straight from Maya to a quicktime.
IF something happens and the render doesn’t finish your whole
sequence is toast. Rendering frames, you only have to pick
up from where the rendering stopped. If a problem arises.
They tend to at the worst possible times. -
I forgot to add that though you can use motion I would avoid it.
I do .tga animation sequences to black magic 10-bit about every other week.
There is some odd thing with .tga .tif files that the picture might end upside down if you render it from motion.
Quicktime or After Effects does not have this strange problem.
fyi
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[Borjis] “There is some odd thing with .tga .tif files that the picture might end upside down if you render it from motion.”
Never had that, very odd. Have you reported the bug to Apple?
Peter
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It’s happened with other software, so no I have not said anything to apple.
It has something to do with .tga and .tif, because it doesn’t seem to happen with any other formats.
now that I think about it, I think it actually only happens with .tif sequences.
ITs a .tif thing.
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So I’m still confused!
Do I stick with .TGA files and then just render them in FCP?
Or do I change to Blackmagic 10 bit and then import in RT into the FCP sequence?Thanks
Lee
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open them in quicktime and export a 10-bit quicktime.
import that into final cut.
It’s best to import it as a quicktime, not frames in fcp.
This is something apple needs to fix. Every other editing system on the planet can import a sequence as video.
Get with it Apple!
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