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HELP!- Uprez FCP Title to HD
Hi all,
My film got accepted to a major film festival and I have to uprez from 24p DV in a 1:66 matted aspect ratio to 24p HDCAM 1:85. Problem is my titles were formatted to fit in a 1:66 box and the transfer house told me that the titles are out of HD 1:85 title safe. I have hundreds of subtitles done using FCP’s text generator, it seems like I just need to raise them a bit higher in the frame and perhaps adjust the font size, the HDCAM will be projected in a large theater. Is there a good software to do this as a batch? Should I just redo everything from scratch with Title Exchange Pro, but if I do that I would like to control things as a batch. I was supposed to have HDCAM ready by today but this issue has stalled everything 🙁
Also this conversion from SD to HD is confusing, as I know that titles created in DV rez can look blocky in higher rez sequences. My colorist recommended this workflow:
“Ideally the post house would upconvert a textless version of the film and give you an HD QuickTime of the film with no titles. Then place the upconverted Quicktime of the film into an HD sequence in FCP and copy and paste the subtitles from your SD sequence into the new HD sequence at the same timecodes. They should look great. From this sequence you can make your final deliverables.”
The post house is recommending that I go to a subtitling company and redo the subtitles as .tiff or ultech files, but unfortunately I’m strapped for cash and time right now. I think I should go with what my colorist recommended.
I appreciate your guys’ advice!
Thanks,
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1 Reply
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Alexander
Go with what your colourist suggests – the SD captions will appear as smaller (relative to frame size) HD captions, removing your safe area problems. If it’s for projection, chances are the captions will not need to be as big as they were in SD anyway. If you need to shift them, do it in the motion tab for one, and then paste motion attributes for all the others. Keep moves to whole even numbers in motion tab (X and Y values).
Ben
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