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How do you make an uncompressed HD Quicktime file?
In FCP 5, I have a project that was shot in HD 720p. I need to make an uncompressed Quicktime file of it in HD quality to get it into a program called Smoke. The files that I made which were Quicktime DVCPRO HD 720p didn’t import into the program. Just wonder if anyone knows the right codec for this. Thank you. Chris
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You use Compressor. Find the Advanced Format Conversion preset for 8-bit HD and use that one.
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There are differing versions of Smoke that restrict your options of what you can send. Uncompressed is always the safest, but with obvious size issues. Long form or short form will make this decission for you most likely. 🙂 If your Smoke house was running version 2009, what you sent would have worked. Smoke workes in unconpressed RGB native within the system, but can soft import select compressed codecs as of the latest version. I would suggest contacting your Smoke operator and ask what he wants. For long form, I like what you sent…xfer overnight to a SAN, relink an XML, and start finishing. For short form, I like to bring it all onto the Smoke drives. It’s really just a workflow question and personal preferance.
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