Export Questions! Please help

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Export Questions! Please help

Posted by Mike Armstrong on July 18, 2007 at 1:45 am

Hi,

I’m trying to export my film so that my color correction person can correct it. He’s running After Effects on a PC. I’m running Final Cut Pro 6 on a Mac. The film is 74min PAL in SD.

I tried exporting the film in Apple Uncompressed 10-bit to give the best color & quality for correction, but all my guy could get was a blank white screen.

Any suggestions on how to export the film to retain quality so that he can open it with After Effects?

(when i tried the 10-bit it opned fine)

Thanks for any help.

Mike

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David Roth weiss replied 18 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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Walter Biscardi
July 18, 2007 at 1:55 am

[Mike Armstrong] “I tried exporting the film in Apple Uncompressed 10-bit to give the best color & quality for correction, but all my guy could get was a blank white screen.”

He doesn’t have the Apple Uncompressed 10bit Codec, I’m not sure that’s available for PC.

Your best bet is to export Lossless (Animation) codec.

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Michael Gissing
July 18, 2007 at 2:10 am

Here https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/
is the Blackmagic codecs for Mac & Win XP. My understanding is that the Blackmagic 10 bit 422 SD codec is the same as the Apple 10 bit 422 SD.

Worth a try as you already have the file rendered and an Win XP codec should be easy to download.
Tom Matthies
July 18, 2007 at 2:15 am

FWIW
This will be a HUGE file for export. Yikes!!
tom
Mike Armstrong
July 18, 2007 at 2:17 am

Thanks guys.!

& yes, it is a monster file. 200gigs. we’re breaking it into 2 sections to color correct & then going to recompress it after correction to make it managable again.

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David Roth weiss
July 18, 2007 at 4:57 am

[Mike Armstrong] “200gigs. we’re breaking it into 2 sections to color correct & then going to recompress it after correction to make it managable again.”

Mike,

The whole workflow sounds like a total nightmare. I sure hope that color guy is good, because you’re getting yourself into a s***load of stuff just to have him do the job. Good luck to ya…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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Rafael Amador
July 18, 2007 at 6:21 pm

I don’t see much sense in what you go to do. If you go to pass to RGB for CC and then recompressed again to do it more managable, you never know with what you go to end up.
I just would do it with FC.
rafael
David Roth weiss
July 18, 2007 at 6:33 pm

[rafalaos] “If you go to pass to RGB for CC and then recompressed again to do it more managable, you never know with what you go to end up.”

Thats precisely what I was thinking…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY

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