FCP /iMac for Broadcast?

[David Dubois]

Hmmm…. due to recent events, I have a confession (blush)…..I may have been thinking of After Effects.(I’ve not been working at my mac recently, so Windows has obviously rotted my brain)

Sorry of for any confusion caused!!!

Anyway….if your using AE an image sequence can work much better than a big mov!

(Getting his coat…)

Dave

[The Bill]

Hey Guys /Gals
Wow, Thanx for all the great replies. Its been a great discussion. Obviously an entire broadcast post facility would be great but it ain’t cheap. So, until I get lengthier and more lucrative video heavy projects the work around suggestions for my trusty little iMac will have to do :O)

David Chai,
… that suggestion worked great! I was always under the impression that an uncompressed quicktime was the minimal quality to work with for broadcast. However the footage I revceived was shot on 35 then given to me as a photo jpeg movie. I was blown away to see the image quality wasn’t degraded. (at least from what I could see) after I clamped it down and color corrected it I played the timeline to my NTSC video monitor, the image looked fine. Even on the regular TV’s in the office. I haven;t made the leap to get the AJA but will definetly consider it.So I’m off to the post house for a TC burned VHS (this needs to be CC) then a final output to beta.

I had no idea photo jpeg was even a useful compression codec….one question, why at 75% and not 100% ? is there that much difference in the data rate?

cheers
-B

[Graeme Nattress]

At 75% PhotoJPEG is full quality 4:2:2 Y’CbCr
at 100% it is full quality 4:4:4 RGB.

Thats why!

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Blub06]

I think you can create video sequences from a stream of still images in of all programs iPhoto. just import, order them and export as QT.

Chris