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Rock Solid Codec for SD footage coming from D1 and D2 and ending up on DVD. PC- CS5
I have had quite a fun time dealing with a West Coast post house trying to get their previous ingest 525 interlaced 29.97 720 X 486 from some old Teleciny work in a .mov format. Long story short they are going to encode the footage now instead of sending it uncompressed 10 bit. My question is what is the best Codec that will work in CS5 and handle it easily. The end product is retail DVDs. My previous experience runs toward tape based formats. Would there be an issue with just requesting a DVCPro codec? Basically I can not fight the footage anymore. I want something manageable on my system. The weak link is my video card FX1700 but everything else is solid! The other footage was way off as it was interpreting it wrong in all the settings. Thank you for your assistance and opinions.
Steve
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DVCPRO should be fine.
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DVCPro50 would be a nice codec, just make sure it’s in a P2 file structure or Premiere on a PC can’t read it.
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Thank you for your help in this!
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I’m sorry, I’m completely wrong!
Premiere on Windows does indeed support DV50 and DVCPROHD in .MOV files. It doen’t support HDV or XDCAM, but it does support DVCPROHD (All three of these codecs are installed into mac by the Pro Apps, so I figured they’d all be missing on Windows.)
Note, they call it DV50 instead of DVCPRO50. Pretty sure it’s the same thing.
By the way, the reason I’m suggesting DCVPRO50 over 25 is the color sampling. DVCPRO25 (which is exactly the same as DV except with two extra audio channels) is 4.1.1. DVD’s are 4.2.0. The conversion between the two isn’t the greatest.
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It will work on the DV50 with P2 though that is the main thing. They are very anti PC out there and generally just handle archival work pulling old teleciny work from the ancient masters. This is why I wanted to check it out here so I can go in with my request without hearing of the almighty Apple. Course I was there myself, in 1999. Now I am just dig both!
Thanks for your help.
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You can edit Apple ProRes in Premiere on the PC. There is a bug with CS5 and CS5.5 that it doesn’t like more than 2 audio channels, but ProRes with stereo sound should be fine. Might be ideal since source company is Mac-based, and ProRes is a high-quality 4:2:2 codec.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computer
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