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Image Sequence Pros/Cons
If this is discussed elsewhere I apologize, I wasn’t able to find a thread on it, but then again I wasn’t even sure how to search for it.
I’ve seen many people taking about the pros of working with an image sequence workflow. My question is, if Im capturing DVCPROHD material, and then doing my edit will exporting an image sequence (jpeg2000 or something like it) help me get around the AE/FCS color shift issue?
This workflow is also something Id just like to learn because it can be applied to many other formats/situations other than the one I am currently dealing with.
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Unfortunately, I’m not entirely sure the image sequence workflow will avoid the color shift issue as FCP will still do some fun things converting between RGB and YUV.
One thing that you might want to try is to open up Quicktime Player, go to the Preferences window and at the very bottom should be an option labeled “Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility.” Some people have had a little luck with that as it is supposed to carry across all programs that use the quicktime libraries.
That said, I still export out of FCP using Uncompressed 4:2:2 to get footage into AE. At least for me, it tends to minimize the color shift issue.
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Color shift aside, rendering to an image sequence is prudent when a) your computer is acting up, or b) you have a really huge and long render, and if you need to re-render because of a glitch, you can just re-do the errant frames, automatically replacing the originals in the sequence.
And re-rendering the sequence to QT is really fast, since there are no effects or animation to slow things down.
TGAs can be uncompressed, so no quality loss. Then, when you have to store the sequence, you can ZIP/stuff it.
But for most stuff, I just render to the QT codec appropriate to the project.
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