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Export for Encoding
I’m mostly a Final Cut AE, but working up my Avid chops and I’m nearing our first delivery of a rough cut. They want both DVDs and either an H.264 Quicktime or a WMV. The post house I’m working at doesn’t have Sorenson on this system, so I can send it out to Sorenson, so it was suggested that I either export straight out from the Media Composer to WMV (with a 5 hr estimate on a 1 hr program, no thanks!) so I’m planning on exporting a “same as source” quicktime, putting it on a thumb drive and using compressor to compress it to h.264.
We are working at 15:1 but some effects have been rendered out at DV. An hour long DV Quicktime will be too large to fit on my thumbdrive, but a 15:1 will be fine, so I’m planning on doing a video mix down. Just to plan out the necessary time involved, as it will take 54 minutes for the video mixdown, will it then take another 54 minutes to make a self contained quicktime file or will it go much faster given that it’s just one file?
Just trying to plan out the most efficient workflow for file based delivery. I’ll also be delivering DVDs, but I’ll just crash record those.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I should also mention. The project mixes frame rates a little bit, and while is primarily 15:1s, there is also some DNxHD footage. I’m thinking I’ll crash record the DVDs and rip that in order to compress the digital deliverable of the rough cut.
Is it standard workflow to always video mixdown before an export?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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[Richard Sanchez] “Is it standard workflow to always video mixdown before an export?”
Mixdowns aren’t necessary – unless you have mixed formats in your timeline – which in this case you do. Usually a QT Reference would be the best option, but you need to create your file on another computer, so that won’t work.
[Richard Sanchez] “it was suggested that I either export straight out from the Media Composer to WMV”
The problem with exporting straight out of MC is interlacing. There isn’t a way to remove interlacing when exporting so any fast horizontal movement shows fields. (Even in MC 5.0)
Crashing to an external DVD recorder may be a good choice. If you don’t have any H.264 hardware to speed up the process, that will always take a while no matter how you get there.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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