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File Conversions
Hello again,
Sorry it this is too much detail, but I am asking for some direction. Using FCP 7 for this project, though my question would be the same if I was on FCP X. . .which I have, but to which I don’t always have access.
I am shooting (3-camera) and editing a series of musical performances. So the idea is, I bring ONE song into the timeline. . .edit it nicely. . .I finish it and it is EXACTLY as I need, no more editing involved. I want to take THAT file and export it out and throw it into a File Drawer for later use.
I do this for, oh, fifteen songs. Finally, I am done. All fifteen songs as their own individual files, sitting in a folder that is titled “Completed Edits”.
Now the idea is to mount five EACH into a series of three half-hour videos for FB or our company website.
I am going back into that file drawer and bringing five individual video files into the timeline. . .not necessarily in the order that they were edited. . .with a little introductory title before each song adding some transitions. Very quickly, I will have a half hour finished program.
Then, each completed HALF HOUR program is exported out to a format that is compressed correctly for the web.
So, TWO QUESTIONS:
1) when I complete each individual “One Song” video. . .but knowing it has to come back into FCP 7 for a later assembly (no further editing needed). . .how should I export it out? Quicktime file Apple ProRes 422 HQ? (this is what was used in the timeline). Or, if I go a more compressed route. . .say, H.264. . .is that going to give me trouble with FCP 7 when I bring it back in?
2) with the finished half-hour segments. . .what compression should I use, again, to be streamable (though OneStreamLive might do a little more compression. . ) Quicktime? Full Res? Scaled down? Mp4?
Thanks again for your help. . .
Glenn
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2 Replies
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ProRes or ProRes HQ will be perfect for FCP7 and FCPX.
And for the streamed version, they may be able to take the ProRes file you create. If not, a higher bitrate h264 should be fine. It might be worth looking up any specs on OneStream’s site and see what is recommended. I quickly found that files over 5GBs aren’t accepted unless they are hosted on Dropbox or other cloud service. Cheers!
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Again, Jeremy, you are the best!
G
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