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FCP Output for Broadcast
Ok, I’m back.
I used Apple ProRes 422 as my codec. Quality was great, but experienced heavy interlacing. Next, I re-exported with ProRes again this time with “deinterlace source video” option, it was much better, but still interlaced in spots. Should I try using FCP deinterlace filter, then export using ProRes with deinter source video option. Another codec maybe? I’m using FCP Studio 2.
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What is your original source material? If it’s interlaced, there’s no reason why you should be de-interlacing it for broadcast. You’re cutting the quality in half.
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Lol. Yeah, it’s Standard NTSC DV 29.97…
The interlaced broadcast thing didn’t even occur to me.
Thanks!
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Ok, one more thing. ProRes will be perfect for the show. However, the hosts are wanting to hand out DVDs to bigwigs. Without size as a factor (we are only burning one segment= ProRes 1.6 GB) would it be better to just burn that file to DVD or export uncompressed out of FCP and use Compressor? If using Compressor, which codecs would be prime DVD quality there. (I do realize you can use ProRes there too, however I was just curious)
Thanks Again, you guys rule!
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Why dont you just stick with NTSC DV? You wont improve the quality, it is only ever as good as your source material.
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bigwigs wont know what to do with a quicktime file on a DVD.
just make a playable DVD.
that they can handle.nick
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