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Open Format – Closed for me
Just started testing new setup. Clean install of 10.4.9 and FCS2 on new MacPro 2.66 w/4GB RAM,, AJA LHe w/4.0 drivers.
Captured in DV, DVCPro50, MJPEG-A, Photo-JPEG and ProRes422.
All at 525i, 29.97, some obviously at 720×480 others at 720×486. I then created 5 sequences based on the same settings as capture. I dropped all clips into each sequence, made sure to remove all attributes (Motion & Filters) in case FCP tried to correct for field shift or size difference.DV codecs play nice with ProRes, but forget about trying to mix either of these with MJPEG-A or P-JPEG. It’s not the 480 vs. 486 since DV is 480 and ProRes is 486. It’s just not as “Open Format” as I would like.
I deal with a large archive library that I was hoping to capture in P-JPEG because if the acceptable quality at very small file sizes. My upgrade to FCP6 was to enable mixing archives with other (native DV) formats in the same timeline.
Am I missing something?
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3 Replies
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They have to be FCP RTextreme supported editing formats.
MJPEG and PJPEG are not supported (basically if you see an Easy Setup for a format, then its supported)
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One additional caveat.
The Open Format timeline does not deal with 720×486
content dropped into a 720×480 properly.
Instead of cutting off 2 lines at the top and 4 lines
at the bottom of a frame, it resizes the frame…wrong. -
A big thank you to John & JR.
John’s information directed me to the right area of the manual for further information.
Indeed Photo-JPEG is used as an RT Extreme codec but after some trial & error I determined it’s only “RT Extreme” compatible when set to 320×240 which looks terrible.
So if I want to utilize the Open Format capabilities of FCP6, I’ll use DV for library archives, ProRes (NTSC) for most On-Line and Photo-JPEG (at 320×240) for long program off-lines.
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