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Export 1024×768
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[Phil Huizen] “But I have another question, since I’m always after perfect quality. In Apple Color in settings the export codec is, by default, set to ProRes (HQ) so when I send my FCP H264 sequence to Color and send it back, I see that my sequence codec has been changed. When sending this ‘Sequence 1 (from Color)’ to Compressor, will this change of Codec affect the quality? Or will the changes made in Color directly be applied to the ORIGINAL-file”
No one of those processes are “destructive”, meaning that you end up with the exported files while keeping the original stuff untouched. That is for FC, Color and Compressor.
In Color you have only few exporting options and all of them of high quality.
In Compressor you have all the option on exporting.
BTW, had you already tried to import H264 stuff to Color and render it?
rafael[Phil Huizen] “And from your answer before: So you can change the render framerate to render faster while editing but you have to put it back to 100% just before sending to Compressor?”
I’m not sure about this but in logic, when you “send to Compressor”, Compressor takes care of all the rendering and should override the FC setting. Should render all with top settings.
rafael -
Importing H264 and rendering goes just fine. I have edit pretty much with H264 in Final Cut and never had a problem. Are you sure H264 is still not supported in Final Cut latest version?
Phil -
In the end the capability of processing H264 depends very much on the hardware, but FC can not support a codec that will make crash 90% of computers.
Next generation FC should do it.
Here you have a very interesting article on the difficulties of QT/FC to manage the codec:
https://www.divergentmedia.com/blog/fullpost/h264_decoding_on_the_mac
rafael -
Ah thanks, but does this mean that I got lucky and are within those 10% with the good hardware so I can edit H264 with no problem? I have edit several (small) projects for myself and never had any problem.
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