FCP 7: Export ProRes HQ in ITU-R BT.709?

[David Roth weiss]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709

The high definition standard. – 1920×1080.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

In theory, yes Don… However, I’m not 100% certain if FCP Legacy codecs are 100% compliant, simply cuz they’re old. I understand that Premiere has a Rec 709 filter if that’s any help. I’ll look into Premiere to see exactly what that filter does a bit later if you’d like?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Don Stroud]

David, if you get around to it, that’s great, but for me it’ll only be useful as information. I won’t have any way to get this project from FCP 7 to Premiere. I’m locked into my Apple sandbox, so I was hoping I could find the definitive answer, or a solution that I can implement.

Thanks again for your help.

Don
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FCP 7.0.3, Macbook Pro 17\” mid-2010, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeoForce GT 330M 512 MB

[David Roth weiss]

If it helps, I’ve had many a show broadcast on television that was mastered with ProRes 422 right out of FCP 7 with zero rejections.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Shane Ross]

I too have had that spec, and exported directly from FCP 7, and it passed. The codec hasn’t changed from when it was made for FCP 7. it’s compliant.

Shane
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[Don Stroud]

David and Shane, that’s good to hear. I’m going to do what I can, but I’m emboldened by your previous successes.

Thanks for your help. Enjoy your weekend!

Don
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FCP 7.0.3, Macbook Pro 17\” mid-2010, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeoForce GT 330M 512 MB

[David Roth weiss]

FYI, the Rec 709 element from Premiere I earlier mentioned is actually a LUT, and it’s designed to ensure that the color space of 4K footage is properly converted to Rec 709 when when down-rezed to HD. So, has little to nothing to do with your question Don.

So, forge ahead and know from this point forward that, if your video was acquired in-camera as HD, and edited in a ProRes 422 1920×1080 sequence, you should not really have to think too much about its being Rec 709 compliant.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.