Getting the best transcode from GoPro to ProRes LT for use in FCPX?

[Michael Garber]

Michael-

Did you try using Remaster, which comes with Cineform suite? You can make the conversions to ProRes with that program and I saw absolutely no difference between the two frames. Also you never answered – how much GoPro footage will you be dealing with?

Also, with Remaster, you can feed it the original MP4 files straight from the GoPro. No need to transcode to Cineform.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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[Michael Angelo]

Hey Michael Garber,

Aha ReMaster, now I see that’s what you need to use to export ProRes out of Cineform, thanks for catching that!

Meanwhile exported using Remaster with both Filter to 420 to 422 on and off, either way the first frame of clip was thrown away and the transcode looks pretty awful, very strange, I’m still demo-ing the software but still…

Hard to evaluate how much GoPro footage we have, guessing under a Terabyte of original raw footage tho may grow to a Terabyte in the end.

So far 5DtoRGB seems to be the big winner regarding quality of transcode…

Thanks for the shout

MA

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[Eric Santiago]

Im not sure if its mentioned here but there are issues with CineForm and Adobe products installed on the same system (both platforms).
We had issues with round tripping QT movies from Premiere to After Effects due to CineForm installed on same workstation.
This was back in CS 5.5 and 6 from my experience.
We also found the issue from AE to FCPX and back.
Didnt affect any of our RESOLVE or REDCineX workflows since thats all R3Ds.
THe issue is that the QT file becomes un-recognized.
Bizzare and still havent botheres to report it.
Un-installed CineForm on OS X and Windows 7 and now all good.

[Juliet Zhu]

One possible reason is that you did not copy the entire card folder from your camcorder. FCP requires videos metadata while ingesting. I got a tool to deinterlace Mp4 videos to FCP X. That way works well.

https://format-changes.over-blog.com

[Michael Angelo]

So far very happy with 5D2RGB it’s as good as native encode through FcP7 and FCPX

Thanks

MA

“A life without cause is a life without effect.” -Dildano