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ProRess 422
what’s the difference between rendering in ProRess 422 and converting the footage to ProRess 422?
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Rendering in ProRes means your original footage remains whatever it is and your Render files are ProRes.
Converting means all your media is now ProRes.
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I understand that but what is better? and when would you convert your material to ProRess 422? isn’t that time consuming?
and when working with XDCAM EX 1080 25p
should I work with ProRess 422 HQ? or ProRess 422? -
We have not experienced ANY problems in working with native XDCAM files in Final Cut. In our experience, native XDCAM mixes seamlessly with the ProRes codec, so it works quite well to edit with native files, and render to ProRes. With the right hardware, you could transcode your XDCAM files into ProRes files, but that take away all of the work-flow advantages of the file-based XDCAM scenes. I don’t know why you would want to do this. It will cost you some time no matter how you do it, and I strongly question if you will see any difference. I have even stronger questions over if your audience would see any difference.
As for using 422 HQ, or just plain 422, that’s a drive speed and space issue. The HQ files will be a lot bigger. If your drives are fast enough, and if you have the space, then go ahead and do it. Maybe some of the other folks on this forum have sharper eyes than I do, but honestly, I doubt I could tell the difference on most scenes between these two codecs.
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