Huge Drop in Bit Rate after capturing – DVCPRO HD

[Shane Ross]

[Tj Alston] ” The post house is just wondering why they have to reconform all of the footage in order to do the onlines”

They don’t. Not if you captured DVCPRO HD via firewire as DVCPRO HD. You are already at full quality.

Shane

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[Gerald Bouget]

The post house must have read the rate in MBYTES/S and not in Mbits/s, since 14mbyte/s is about the same than 100 mbits/s.

[Chris Tompkins]

Tell you shot and captured DVCPRO HD.
It is @ full quality.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta

[Mark Maness]

Yet, another reason Apple and FCP should have options to show use our bit rates in the desired method that we prefer. Sure would be a nice option.

Also… There should be a requirement for ALL video production personnel to learn the differences in posted bit rates. When you look at camera specs, depending on the manufacturer, they show it in one of the two forms, further confusing people.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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[Dixon Johnston]

You can also open a clip in Quicktime Pro and show movie inspector (cmd+i) to see how it translates to “mbits/s” as opposed to reading FCPs “MB/sec”

Dixon Johnston
Creative Services Director-WRIC

Aquisition: P2 500, Beta SX & SP
Edit: FCP-AJA IO-SD-HD 720P