Mpeg-4 archival footage unrendered in timeline

[Chris Borjis]

convert them using mpeg stream clip to something final cut can
play in real time.

[Michael Graziano]

right … I’ll try it.
Thanks for responding so quickly.

Do you suggest a particular format?

[Chris Borjis]

well whatever most of your footage is, then set your
timeline sequence for that. thats the only way it will be real time if they match

[Michael Graziano]

All of the non archival footage, which is most of it, is HDV. I could’ve missed it, but I didn’t see an HDV export/conversion option in Mpeg streamclip. I’ll keep playing with it to see. thanks

[Andrew Kimery]

[Michael Graziano] “All of the non archival footage, which is most of it, is HDV. I could’ve missed it, but I didn’t see an HDV export/conversion option in Mpeg streamclip. I’ll keep playing with it to see. thanks “

Open the clip in MPEG Streamclip then File->Export as QuickTime, then choose the appropriate Apple HDV codec from the Compression drop down menu.

-A

[Michael Graziano]

great. Thanks andrew.

[Sean Oneil]

Unless you’re mastering back to HDV tape later on, you should actually convert it to ProRes and not HDV. You’ll get an orange bar but you won’t get the “Unrendered” red bar.

Sean

[Bill Dewald]

[Sean ONeil] “Unless you’re mastering back to HDV tape later on, you should actually convert it to ProRes and not HDV. You’ll get an orange bar but you won’t get the “Unrendered” red bar.”

Assuming you have the system specs for ProRes.

[Boyd Mccollum]

You could also use Compressor to transcode directly to HDV.

[Chris Borjis]

[bill dewald] “Assuming you have the system specs for ProRes.”

thats certainly an issue for capturing, (intel mac minimum) but even old G4 systems
can play back ProRes just fine.

The real computational intensive portion of ProRes is encoding it.