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exporting HDV at best quality
Hi – I’ve been editing on HDV 1080i50 in FCP – I want to export as a quicktime in the best setting possible but not sure what it is. When I go export quicktime hdv1080i it only lets me do medium quality – when I’ve exported in dv-pal I can change the setting to best quality…can anyone suggest what I should do.
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Barbara,
Go into your sequence settings and change the compressor to ProRes, then re-render the timeline and export. By far the best solution in your situation. Next time though, better to capture you HDV footage as ProRes from the start.
Have a wonderful day.
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thanks – could you explain why I should import in pro res and not HDV? What does th prores mean?
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Well best Qt is going to be HD uncompressed but that will be a huge file.
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Barbara,
There are a TON of posts here on this, but in a nutshell, HDV is an MPEG2 GOP format whereas ProRes is an I-frame, full raster codec which holds up very well to color correction and effects. HDV is a fine acquisition format but the worst for editing, it has to be conformed because editing changes the GOP structure, so at the very least you should change your compressor in your HDV sequences to ProRes and render. But I capture all my HDV footage to ProRes, here’s my tutorial on how to do it. Yes, it takes a lot more drive space, but much less than uncompressed and drives are so cheap so who cares?
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
Have a wonderful day.
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Hi Chris – thanks for your answer – however you havent said how to EXPORT…I’ve looked at various posts and all I can find is how to import. So far I have imported at HDV 1080 50i, changed it as you suggested to pro res (which didnt need that much rendering just over text infact) and now not sure if I export in pro res or hdv using export, quicktime movie…whats my best option for a) a master source and b) to put on a DVD?
thanks for your time
best
Barbara
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