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Reaaalllly Slow Render
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Thanks, Shane. I didn’t know H.264 wasn’t an editable codec, but I knew it was very processor intensive.
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[Justin Ford] ” I didn’t know H.264 wasn’t an editable codec”
You need to hang here more often Justin. This topic comes up so much (literally several times a day) that you’ll tire of hearing it in no time. In theory, FCP X won’t have the same set of issues.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Ok, so I have a new question. I’m converting video that’s MPEG4 to MOV, so that’s why I was using H.264 earlier. I’m converting it through MPEG Streamclip, but they don’t have an option to convert it using Apple Pro Res unless you have the options available through Quicktime Pro. Any suggestions for the next best codec? Thanks for your help!
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[Justin Ford] “I know H.264 takes a toll on rendering speed. Great codec, just takes a lot to make it work.”
*face-palm*
H.264 is a great codec…for distribution.
For acquisition and post, not so much.
Hence the “just takes a lot to make it work”.You can pound a square peg in a round hole. I have done it.
It takes a big hammer, and a lot of muscle.
Not the most efficient way to go about it though.
To each his own…Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Does it have Avid DNxHD as an option? You would have to download the codec drivers/plug-in for Final Cut to open it, but it is a good editing codec like ProRes.
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[Sarah Linebaugh] “I’m converting it through MPEG Streamclip, but they don’t have an option to convert it using Apple Pro Res unless you have the options available through Quicktime Pro.”
If you have FCP installed, you have QT Pro.
[Sarah Linebaugh] “Any suggestions for the next best codec? “
DVCPRO HD.
[Justin Ford] “Does it have Avid DNxHD as an option? You would have to download the codec drivers/plug-in for Final Cut to open it, but it is a good editing codec like ProRes.”
That is an Avid codec. YOu get no real time options if you use it in FCP.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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I do have it available on the computer I’m editing on, but I would like the people who are gathering content on the Flip cameras to be able to convert it themselves before they give it to me to edit. The computers they’re using don’t have Final Cut or Quicktime Pro. Any other codec suggestions, or do I just need to convert them all to Apple Pro Res on my computer? Thanks!
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[Sarah Linebaugh] “but I would like the people who are gathering content on the Flip cameras to be able to convert it themselves before they give it to me to edit.”
Don’t. Do not ever allow non-editors to do this. They will get it wrong. Dave is right…get the raw media, do it yourself…do it right.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Yeah, I would love to be able to convert it myself, but I’m getting so much content every twenty minutes or so and am trying to churn out the videos as fast as I can. It’s eating up way too much time converting it myself. I’ve given the reporters detailed instructions on how to convert, so I’m not too worried about them really screwing it up. But I would like to know the next best option for a codec that will be the easiest to edit in and the fastest render.
The codec options on the other computers are:
Apple Planar RGB, Sorenson Video Compressor, Sorenson Video 3 Compressor, Apple BMP, H.264, Apple Cinepak, Apple DVCPRO50-NTSC, Apple DVCPRO50-PAL, Apple DV/DVCPRO50-NTSC, Apple DV-PAL, Apple DVCPRO-PAL, Apple H.261, H.263, Apple VC H.263, Apple Intermediate Codec, Apple Photo-JPEG, JPEG 2000 Encoder, Apple Motion JPEG A, Apple Motion JPEG B, Apple MPEG4 Compressor, Apple pNG, Apple Pixlet Video, Apple Animation, Apple Video, Apple Graphics, Apple TGA, Apple TIFF, Apple Component Video-YUV422, No Video
Thanks for your help!
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