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Mixing DV NTSC res and Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC footage
I am cutting a project on my Dual 2 GHz G5 with 512 RAM in Final Cut Pro HD. Most of the footage for this project is DV NTSC, but I need to include a lot of graphics and some of my footage is Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC. At the end of the job my client would like to walk away with a final Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC QuickTime, preserving all the graphics and Uncompressed footage quality, to master DVD’s with.
Does anyone have a workflow for this? I tried building an Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC Sequence in Final Cut and combining everything there, and ran into major interlacing problems when exported, no matter which field dominated. Is there a way to build a sequence DV NTSC and switch it to Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC?
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You should be on the right track.
Create an UC 8Bit sequence, drop everything in there, and export a self-contained QT movie (don’t use QT Conversion).
If you play this movie back on the Mac using QT it won’t look as good as dropping it back onto an UC 8Bit sequence in FCP (you shouldn’t need to render) – but rest assured, the quality is there.
Hope that helps,
Mike Peele
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