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Export video for Vegas color timing
I have someone lined up to do color timing on my feature film. The film was cut in Final Cut Pro. Originally, we discussed exporting each shot one at a time and he would reconstruct the film that way. However, that seems pretty daunting, and easy to mess up. Export one clip incorrectly and the video is now out of sync and done incorrectly. The color timing would be done in Vegas. It had been suggested I could export an XML or AAF from FCP and he could have the footage, uncompressed, and he’d be able to work with it there. Of course, considering the original uncompressed film was 18GB or so, I’d have to cut it up into 4 or 5 sets of scenes for him, since he’d be on FAT32 and unable to digest a file that large. Would this work? Any suggestions? Thanks.
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I can only tell you that when folks use Apple Color with projects edited in Avid, the general workflow is to send a self contained Quicktime Movie of the entire movie to the colorist. The colorist then slices up the entire film and sends that into Color for grading. The colorist then either sends back a new self contained quicktime movie or the entire film in its sliced up form back to the Avid editor.
I would suspect you would want to follow the same general idea for this. I honestly didn’t know Vegas had a good color correction tool, that’s good to know.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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It doesn’t, he has Magic Bullet for Vegas. If I give him a full uncompressed MOV file, it’ll be huge. PC can’t ingest that, right? So I’d have to cut it up into 15 minute segments or so?
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