FCP settings for TV Broadcasting

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FCP settings for TV Broadcasting

Posted by Maurice Salazar on February 23, 2010 at 4:50 pm

I am filmming a series for TV. I am shooting in HD since I have 2 EX-3 camaras. The station wants me to provide for them the SD file since the TV station is not in HD. What can I do so I son’t loose so much picture quality. Right now I am giving them the HD file (1920×1080 24fps AppleProREs)and they are rendering in their timeline and doing print to video to a DVC/PRO deck. I loose alot of quality. Is there a better way to do it.
Thanks
Maurice

Maurice Salazar
Valdense Films
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(240)893-5510
http://www.valdensefilms.com

Maurice Salazar replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Michael Sacci
February 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Do the downconvert through a video card from AJA or similar out to a Digibeta deck.
Bryan Banks
February 23, 2010 at 6:56 pm

doing the conversion in Compressor would yield better results as well… pretty much anything is better than just rendering in an SD timeline…

-Bryan
Maurice Salazar
February 23, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Thanks for your response
I need to ask them that question.
I will keep you posted
Maurice

Maurice Salazar
Valdense Films
valdensefilms@gmail.com
(240)893-5510
http://www.valdensefilms.com
Maurice Salazar
February 23, 2010 at 7:52 pm

Thanks for your response.
I tried to use compressor, however since I don’t hace a DVCPRO deck to print to video, they have to use Final Cut Pro timeline to import
whatever file I give them to print to video to a deck in the TV station.
I gave them both files a SD and a HD file. Each time they imported each file they had to render it.
So I guess the question remains, what file would mantain better resolucion upon rendering in a SD timeline? a SD file or a HD file

Thanks

Maurice Salazar
Valdense Films
valdensefilms@gmail.com
(240)893-5510
http://www.valdensefilms.com
Bryan Banks
February 23, 2010 at 8:35 pm

You will need to set compressor’s settings to exactly match the sequence setting the station is using… no rendering should be required on their end if you do it correctly.

Find out if they want uncompressed, DVCPro50, DV, etc and if they want 720×480 vs 720×486… these are answers that only the station can give you.

-Bryan
Maurice Salazar
February 23, 2010 at 10:10 pm

Thanks Dave for your input.
I will do that.
Maurice

Maurice Salazar
Valdense Films
valdensefilms@gmail.com
(240)893-5510
http://www.valdensefilms.com

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