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Exporting uncompressed from HDV footage
Ok I’m a fairly new PP user. I’ve come from Vegas 7. Trying to learn PP CS3 as everything else I use is Adobe.
I’ve captured HDV 30p footage from my Canon XH A1.
Typically in Vegas I will capture the footage and create a 720 30p intermediate file which I will then take into After Effects CS3. Sometimes I will export as an uncompressed AVI.
Trying to do the same in PP but I can’t figure it out. Even when exporting to an Uncompressed 4:2:2 YUV file my video does not play properly in Windows Media Player or VLC. Either the video doesn’t show up or the audio doesn’t play ect.
What is the best way to export my footage?
I can’t seem to get any usable file at all.Thanks
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You would benefit from Uncompressed 4:2:2 if you would capture to this format/codec/whatever. Since your footage is already HDV (8-bit 4:2:0 or 4:1:1), the only reason you would convert it to uncompressed is not to lose quality during multiple renders.
You can achieve this by using Quicktime with Animation codec. It has alpha support and your files will be smaller than using Uncompressed. You can also try Quicktime PNG. It’s slightly lossy, but you shouldn’t notice anything evem with multiple render passes. Also has alpha support and is MUCH smaller.
These can have audio as well and will play in ANY video app, regardless of the platform.
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