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high quality render advice from book
The working codec on my project is DVCPRO 720p50 HD which was from footage shot on the Panasonic HVX201A. The widescreen television in a reception area in Munich, Germany is presumably PAL.
For the final DVD output I want the highest render possible even though I do not have multiple processors, just the 2.4ghz iMac intel core 2 Duo and 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. The external hard drive media and scratch drive is rated at 7200 or 7400 rpm with a Firewire 800 connection.
Lonzell Watson’s book “Final Cut Pro 6 For Digital Video Editors Only” says: “If you require a higher-quality render than what the DV codec provides, you can always change your Final Cut Pro sequence settings to Uncompressed 10-bit and then export your movie. You may want to also consider exporting via the Animation codec”.
Are both of these solutions applicable to my computer in terms of data-rate flow? Should the rendering process during editing START with one of these codecs and stay with it all the way through to the final project once I have established the desired aspect ratio and frame rate when I ingested the footage from the P2 cards using the DVCPRO HD 720p50?
Do the uncompressed 10-bit and animation codecs provide the best solution to creating the master before taking it to DVD Studio?
Thanks for your experience!
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[David Hunter] “Lonzell Watson’s book “Final Cut Pro 6 For Digital Video Editors Only” says: “If you require a higher-quality render than what the DV codec provides, you can always change your Final Cut Pro sequence settings to Uncompressed 10-bit and then export your movie. You may want to also consider exporting via the Animation codec”.”
David,
He’s talking about the DV codec, not DVCProHD. DV has a color space that terribly degrades graphics when rendering. DVCProHD doesn’t do that.
David
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Ahhh…thanks David.
I was taking “DV” to be a generic reference to the multiplicity of DV encodings formats….
Appreciate that…
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