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Does FCP support QuickTime movs with multiple video tracks?
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[Rafael Amador] “You are proposing QT as a media-storage-managing-format.”
Isn’t it already? Let’s just make it a more capable wrapper. I’d really like to throw metadata in there as well.
[Rafael Amador] “The idea is interesting for media sharing and storing, but doesn’t add much for the video editor.”
I don’t see it that way at all. It would allow me to DELIVER (one of the many jobs of an editor) one single file to a client instead of four or five different ones.
[Rafael Amador] “You are thinking of a super-QT-file that behaves almost like a project”
Mmmm, maybe but not really. I am talking about making an archive master with multiple versions in it in one file.
[Rafael Amador] “but to pair together and manage different elements (graphics, sound, many video tracks) we already have the “FC Project”.
“When I need to deliver a surround+stereo master, let’s say, I make a QT file with (5.1 + 2) 8 audio tracks. The audio user on the end sorts out which mix they need.
Why can’t I do the same with video? I’ll have the clean feed, the dirty feed, the nasty feed and the normal feed in one file, then another track for graphics with alpha in Spanish, English, Portuguese and perhaps Fritalian.
Or how about this? One ProRes 422 track, one h264 track and one DNxHD mov track (all same frame size/rate of course)?
[Rafael Amador] “I may be old-fashioned, but I will never feel safe with a 1 hour Prores-QT file with 7 video tracks and 14 audio tracks.”
Then you must not work in episodic television. 🙂
[Rafael Amador] “What about file corruption?”
If a current single track master goes corrupt today, it sucks. This is no different. If something is corrupt, it sucks.
[Rafael Amador] “That sounds a nightmare to me. “
One man’s nightmare is another man’s happy dream.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “When I need to deliver a surround+stereo master, let’s say, I make a QT file with (5.1 + 2) 8 audio tracks. The audio user on the end sorts out which mix they need.
Why can’t I do the same with video? I’ll have the clean feed, the dirty feed, the nasty feed and the normal feed in one file, then another track for graphics with alpha in Spanish, English, Portuguese and perhaps Fritalian.
Or how about this? One ProRes 422 track, one h264 track and one DNxHD mov track (all same frame size/rate of course)?”
All this can be achieved with a FC project and a media folder. That gives you more flexibility than any file to play, trim, adjust or sync the content.[Jeremy Garchow] “One man’s nightmare is another man’s happy dream.”
Yes, and what I see next are cows and fruit trees 🙂
But you will be here to work with those super-files.
rafael
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