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Mixing Clip codecs in the same seq…
Hi everyone –
I am helping a client build a show completely out of HD stock footage purchased online. Of course, formats are all over the place 1080/23.97, 1080/30P, even some SD. We have a short time table to work on this… but we believe there will be lots of compositing and the fear is that re-rendering will eat up most of our time.My question: should we run all our footage through compressor or squeeze to make it all the same 1080/30P? Or would that realistically take forever… so there would be a better work around?
Thanks –
ToopsJustin
Editor/Chess Player, Washington DC
2×3 GHz Intel Mac, 4 gigs RAM
FCP 6, DVDSP4, Motion3
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[Justin Toops] “My question: should we run all our footage through compressor or squeeze to make it all the same 1080/30P? Or would that realistically take forever… so there would be a better work around?
“Though mixing formats in the timeline works okay (not great), I would convert everything to one format in Compressor (assuming this clips are short). Your machine is very fast, so Compressor shouldn’t take that long. It will make your life easier once you start editing.
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