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First project with FCP/EX-1 footage a mess, trying to salvage to DVD
I just got through shooting/editing my first project with my new EX-1 and Mac Pro FCP system. This was my first project shot/edited in HD. Needless to say, the setttings for my sequences and the frame rate/resolutions for EX-1 footage did not all match up the way they should have.
Essentially, i have a sequence that was edited at 1440 x 1080 with QT compressor setting set to 1080-60i. BUT, my footage was shot at two different rates, one(the intro/outro) at 1920 x 1080 30P 35Mb Apple XDCAM EX codec and the other(body of piece) shot at 1440 x 1080 1080 60i Apple HDV codec. My ultimate goal is to have this output to SD DVD for cablecast on local channel. I want to keep WS aspect, with letterbox along top/bottom.
A neighboring city that does what i do simply runs the video out (they have iMacs) from a VGA to component NTSC converter and feeds audio from line out to a cheap little Philips 615 consumer DVD recorder. I was going to try the same thing, using the Apple DVI to s-video adapter cable that they sell. Well, i could never get a signal to the DVD recroder. I hooked up a VGA to NTSC scan converter and used a DVI to VGA cable and ended up getting some pretty crappy looking SD widescreen w/ letterbox video. It’s do-able, but only with beer goggles on. I’d like to do better.
Is there a way to render out a QT movie. I tried that but, due to varying resolutions, got the intro/outro parts zoomed in on and not scaled properly, while the other footage, 1440, was fine. Is this all something i need to bring in to Compressor(no exp with it) or is this Apple dvi to s-video adaptor cable not working as it should or is it something i should, with right settings, be able to render out in FCP?
FWIW, i converted all these files w/ Sony XDCAM Transfer software.
Thanks for any help. You people usually come through like a mug.
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It’s always best to edit with just one codec. While FCP will render a codec different from the sequence setting, the results aren’t always great. Either convert one to the other or both to, say, prores. Compressor can do the best conversion, but do some research on the COW for the specific procedures. Once you’ve done that and have it all tidy in your sequence you can easily export a QT movie.
John
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So split the two different video formats (they are currently edited together in one sequence) in to their own sequences and convert one to the other or visa versa by exporting to Compressor, or convert both formats to ProRes and then combine in to same sequence before making a movie file?
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