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Exporting DVCPRO file crash
Hi all,
I am working in a DVCPRO timeline mixing 5 different cameras, one of which is shot on SD. I had to apply tons of filters such as instant HD and magic bullet’s deartifactor to make it look remotely acceptable with the other HD footage I have. So what I did instead of rendering the clips in the timeline was add the filters in a new DVCPRO HD timeline and export the file to it’s native sequence (matching the TC of the clip with the timeline so I could resync with my clip files in the 5 camera sequence).
Long story short, after a 48hour render, when I had 40 min of footage to export, and I had 60 gigs of space on my drive, it got almost all the way, and when I returned home, the FCP said “not enough drive space”! how could this be so!!! So now I think I should just render in the timeline (another 2 days) and then export, so at least I’ll have my render files, but this time I’ll need twice the drive space.
Any ideas? The reason for not rendering in the DVCPRO HD timeline with the camera footage from other cameras is that everytime I make a change I have to rerender.
What is the best approach to compose a timeline (I chose DVCPRO HD cause I love that codec, and I have 3 HDV cameras (some 3 chip, some 1chip_) and 2 SD cameras.. and want to match all 5 of the cameras in post.
A challenging project I suppose, but FCP should be up for the job, and we white balanced the cameras before we shot..
thanks
lili -
3 Replies
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Ya got me confused about your workflow, could you explain further? Native sequence exporting? what?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Hi jerry,
thanks for getting back to me. Essentially I have 5 cameras – 3 shot at HDV (two with a 1 chip, one with 2 chips) and 2 cameras shot at SD. I’m consolidating them into a DVCPRO HD timeline, I think that is the best codec to conform the formats to.
I’m rendering all of them directly in the timeline, but each time I need to do an edit, I have to wait hours for it to render. An impossible workflow.
so question:
a) am I correct in wanting to conform all the video formats to DVCPRO HD?
b) is the easiest way to work with this by exporting all different formats to DVCPRO HD and then working with them ‘natively’ in DVCPRO HD?
thanks
lili -
Better workflow is to get to an Io HD, or AJA LHe card and capture it all as ProRes… But if that’s not going to happen, you could do the same by transcoding it all to DVCPROHD or (better yet) ProRes with Compressor. Then edit that material into a matching sequence. no renders that way. Plus if you choose ProRes, there’s no visual loss of quality, and it’s 10 bit. not 8 like DVCPROHD… So all media not from tape (graphics, titles etc.) will look better.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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