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D7000 footage in Final Cut Pro
Hi. Shooting Nikon D7000 full resolution (1920×108 with the h264 compression). Editing in Final Cut Pro 7. Editing on MBP 17″ laptop (with the 3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor).
As per everyone’s advice, I learned I should first convert my files to ProRes 422 (LT). (Which takes forever but never mind). But I am outputting for web video, which I usually do as h264. It takes an insane long amount of time.So:
Convert footage to ProRes 422 LT for editing.Got it.
But what is the most efficient codec to use for output that will be uploaded to web (ie, youtube or vimeo.) -
7 Replies
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Export it out of final cut as “Current Settings” so it creates a self contained ProRes LT File. Once its exported Drag it into a program called MPEG Streamclip (Google it) which is free and fast, from there you can encode it to H264. I find this method to be faster.
You can also export the file from FCP as a reference file. to save even more time and space.
Mike
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Yup- them’s the breaks. You want faster- ya need something like a Mac Pro. H.264 is just raw processing cycles. If you haven’t maxed your RAM- that would help.
Noah
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This product can do wonders if you are limited by processing speed on a MacBook Pro.
https://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html
Not sure how it stacks up against brand new top end quad core MBP’s, but on dual-core ’09 and earlier MBP’s it speeds up the h.264 encoding big time.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.“Live, love, laugh and be happy.”
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Yeah I was going to mention that too but wasn’t sure how versatile that piece of gear actually was. Elgato- send me one for review please. 🙂
Noah
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It’s great for MBP’s. An ENG sports shooter here has developed a great system for shooting hilites of live sporting events and uses the Turbo to encode clips to send back to the station for broadcast. He shoots the game with a camera that has a buffer. Sets the buffer to 20-30 seconds and just follows the game without recording. When a play, goal, hit, TD… happens he taps the record button and gets all the build up and rolls on the celebration. Then between periods/halfs/quarters… uses a MBP with the Turbo to encode the good plays and uploads them to the station’s FTP for broadcast.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.“Live, love, laugh and be happy.”
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Thanks, everyone, for the advice.
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I have a similar machine except I have 2.33 duo processor Macbook Pro and I have a Matrox MXO2 Mini with Max box connected to my laptop. After editing my work in FCP, I send it to Compressor and I use one of the Matrox settings for compression. The speed at which it compresses videos is very impressive! I am talking 3-5 minutes compression time for a video that is about 10-15 minutes in length. I love using the Matrox MXO2 box and my videos look really good on Youtube and Vimeo.
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