• Apple Final Cut Pro

  photographic movie workflow

  Posted by Paul Godard on August 31, 2012 at 10:37 pm

  Hi
  I am doing photo movies using hires images mixed with motion animations.

  1/ My projects are always 1080p at 30 fps. Is this correct?

  The final production are either played on a PC (Mac or Win), using a projector or not, on the web or on a dvd (SD or blue ray).
  I generally export the project using ‘send to projector’ as ‘apple pro res 422’, then either directly from the project or later from the exported PR422 file, I created the other versions using different presets.

  2/ Here is the preset I am using to play the 1080p on a PC. Is this correct? What is the best settings for best quality and smallest file size in this case?
  Name: _PC-1080
  Description: H.264 1080p for PC at 5 Mbps
  File Extension: mp4
  Estimated size: 2.27 GB/hour of source
  Audio Encoder
  Sample Rate: 22.050kHz
  Channels: 2
  Bits Per Sample: 16
  AAC encoder quality: high
  Data rate: 40 Kbps
  Video Encoder
  Width: (100% of source)
  Height: (100% of source)
  Pixel aspect ratio: Default
  Crop: None
  Padding: None
  Frame rate: (100% of source)
  Selected: 29.97 ——————— why this if it is 30 fps in the original file?
  Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
  Codec Type: H.264
  Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
  Pixel depth: 32
  Spatial quality: 75
  Min. Spatial quality: 75
  Key frame interval: 90
  Temporal quality: 75
  Min. temporal quality: 75
  Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
  Video: H.264 main profile
  Enhanced Podcast: Off
  Compatible with Mac and PC

  The original movie PR422 is 6.2 Gb and the PC-1080 above is 165 Mb with very good quality.

  3/ How comes that if I changed the geometry to limit the size to 1280 x 720 the file size does not change (161 Mb)?

  Paul Godard – Soul Photography

  Paul Godard replied 13 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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