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FCP ProRes Workflow
Hello, any suggestions would be awesome on this:
I am having ProRes 442 (SQ) footage delivered to me that is from a 35mm film shoot. This will be broadcast usinf DGFastchannel. I told the transfer house to give me ProRes Files instead of Uncompressed SD (which is what I normally work in). Instead of using the uncompressed resource hog I decided to go with the ProRes codec. Is this going to be ok as a broadcast deliverable? Also, I know that I need have my FCP sequence compressor set to ProRes 422, but do I export the final mov as “None” or “ProRes 422” when I am getting ready to FTP for broadcast? Does exporting an already ProRes sequence as ProRes again add a generation?
Thanks,
Ben
“A Cult Of One”
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16 Replies
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Are you having DG make the tape?
I would call them up and see if they can handle ProRes, the office by me in Chicago is PC/Avid based.
If you are planning on ftping a finished spot (with no DG Fastchannel conversions) then you need to go through a certification process and use Episode to encode the mpg in DGs specs.
Call DG and they will walk you through the options. If you plan to do this a lot, I’d just get a dropbox going and buy Episode, if it’s a one off, I’d have DG handle any conversion and you can just send them a tape or Quicktime Movie (tape is the most fool proof).
ProRes is definitely a great broadcast codec, for sure.
Jeremy
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yeah Im DG certified and have the dropbox and use sorenson to convert my masters to MPG for broadcast. I just wanted to know if proRes was a good enough start (over uncompressed) to have a satisfiable deliverable once broadcasted. Also, when i export do i use “none” or “ProRes” as the compression type before I send it to Squeeze for the DG template? Thanks for yor quick response man. Much appreciated
“A Cult Of One”
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Why reexport the spot? Just send a reference movie to Squeeze or whatever you use.
No need to recompress and yes, ProRes is excellent.
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Ok cool, thanks again. ProRes is tha shizzy
“A Cult Of One”
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[Benjamin McKay] “ProRes is tha shizzy”
No dizzle.
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I send to DG all the time and I have a spec sheet from them that walks you through all the settings to export straight out of FCP using quicktime H264. Ask them for the specs and it walks you through it step by step with pretty pictures and all, including how much black/slate/black/spot/black they want on each side of the content.
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[Bill Scheerer] “I send to DG all the time and I have a spec sheet from them that walks you through all the settings to export straight out of FCP using quicktime H264.”
Bill,
Can you post the specs? I only have the MPEG2 spec and those are pretty strict – I’ve never heard of DG accepting H.264 for delivery. If so, do you know when they started?
Thanks,
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In my experience h264 delivery is for HD only. If delivering SD, it’s the MPG files, especially if you’re dropbox certified.
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As far as I knew, DG was not yet accepting file-based delivery for HD. Maybe that’s changed?
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[Mark Spano] “Maybe that’s changed?”
I think it depends on your market, but in Chicago, they most definitely are. The price is BIG though compared to the SD offerings. Literally 10-15 times the price. There’s also been huge updates to Spot Central for HD and the upload bandwidth has been massively increased for HD.
Jeremy
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