Down converting a Pro Res Sequence

[Shane Ross]

Render everything. DO NOT ADD TIMECODE AT THIS TIME

Export a reference QT movie.

Bring that into Compressor. Set up how you want it to be encoded…add the timecode reader there.

Tutorial on that here: https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/visible-timecode/1

Shane
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[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi Shane
Thanks for the reply, I’m giving that a go right now…but still this 12 minute sequence wants ‘about an hour’ just to render!! Could this be an issue with my Mac?
M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Chris Tompkins]

Welcome to HD, you need more power.

Chris

[Shane Ross]

It all depends why you are rendering. What effects are on the clips and so on. Blurring ones, or de-noising ones, sharpening ones take longer.

Shane
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[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks again for responses. Re my clip, there’s a brightness/contrast and auto level filter, a one second fade in fade out at the start and end. Is there no way to have a second lower res sequence within the same project?

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Shane Ross]

Sure…you can have sequences with different compressors. The lowest end good quality one is ProRes LT. Not sure you’ll see that much difference in render speed between that and regular ProRes 422.

Shane
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[Rafael Amador]

What kind of “low resolution version’ are you trying?
If you are trying an H264, don’t make a multipass.
rafael

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[Spencer Averick]

You said you’ve created a full res clip already? Just use that to create an h.264 out of compressor w/tc burn. Don’t try to compress an h264 from an unrendered fcp sequence if you don’t have to.
Also make sure your clips and sequence setting match. If not the render will take longer.

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks so much for all the responses, really helpful stuff!!

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Sascha Engel]

I have to do that all the time. Here is my quickest good Q way, if you need the time code printed on:
I first export the hi res version of my time line, so I have a version without TC if needed, open that in new Seq, ad TC, export again in HD with TC, then open this file in Compressor and adjust the settings for an H.264 output, as Raphael said, make sure you set it to fast and not multi-pass, it will boost the time incredible and the quality difference is minimal.

Greetz.