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net bandwidth friendly footage, so editors can download
Hi,
I’m exporting files in final cut pro for other people to key out (involves greenscreen) and edit the footage. Basically I’m working on a project where a massive amount of people online have to edit footage we give them in a competition.
This brings all sorts of issues, but is still workable. I was wondering what export settings / format is best for me to export my footage (currently XDCAM EX 1080p24 (35 Mb/s VBR)) so it doesn’t take as much bandwidth and is workable in final cut pro and premiere.
I know if we do prores it won’t be use able on windows.
Not everyone will have the xdcam codec…
I know h264 is compressed but maybe that’s the lesser of demons in all these options? -
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How much footage (duration)?
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2-4 minutes each, and it’s more than a 50 clips. I know it’s huge…
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If you are green screening you will want the highest quality possible and definitely not H264. Would probably be quicker to dump onto a drive and bike/courier it.
Peter
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It’s suppose to be where hundreds of people download this.
It’s a marketing thing and I know it has to be the best quality for keying.
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How about an image sequence? Tiffs or similar – they would be cross platform.
Then dump that in a Amazon S3 account.Peter
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[Arash Sahba] “I know if we do prores it won’t be use able on windows.”
As long as the latest version of Quicktime is installed on the Windows PC, it should be able to read ProRes files just fine – it just can’t create ProRes files, as the codec is read-only on Windows.
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is there a lower quality form of prores that makes the file size smaller?
Basically my goal is to have a codec with the smallest file size that isn’t a pain like h264.
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Its needs to be edited, your best option is sending the original stuff.
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it WILL be distributed over the web no matter what.
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I saw the post. I think the best thing to do is goto the client and give him his options. I know uploading and downloading +10 gigs per person isn’t ideal but I also don’t want a lot of complains about me using h264.
It’s a marketing thing too, so I don’t it’s too important on the perfect key.
What do you guys have in mind for compressing it? I know h264 is a nightmare, but that’s the only I know of right now (of course they’ll have to use compressor or constantly render in fcp).
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