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Targa sequence exporting help
Hi folks,
We were asked by a client in Israel (the country, not the brand of deoderant), to take an FCP sequence and make it into a targa sequence with the following specs:
Visual: TGA sequence
Sound: wave 44khz, 24 bitThis is all the info we have. What we did therefore was the following–
-exporting the sequence as a QT & imported into AE 7
-dragged the QT into and AE comp and sent to render Queue twice
– first comp in queue we had best settings, output as a targa sequence (we used 24bit, no RLE), no changes on image size
-second comp in queue, we used best settings, audio only (44.1 khz, 16 bit, stereo), saved as wavBoth files rendered and we sent via email. Today we get a response saying they can’t work with them. No additional reason why or sorts.
For at least our side of the actions taken, is there something we might have done wrond, misinterpreted (I know you can’t do 44khz audio or 24 bit audio). Is there a more preferred setting for targa sequence export or a trick to file naming? We’re sadly at a loss here and could use some help. Thanks!
Rick
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3 Replies
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Everything sounds fine, although I’m not sure what happened when you exported the QT from FCP. Current settings?
Or maybe the files were corrupted in transit.
Or maybe they don’t know what to do with a TGA sequence, but were told that’s what they should ask for.Anyway, you need to talk real-time with the technical folks over in Israel. Not the producers, you should talk to the editors who can’t work with the sequence. Until then, you can’t do a thing. Ask them:
– are they able to open the zip file? (if that’s what you sent)
– are they able to view any TGA in Photoshop?
– are they able to view the sequence in After Effects?
– what app are they using to import/open the sequence?
– what app are they using to import/open the audio?
– what have they tried to do with the files, and exactly what happened when they tried to do that?
– does their app really prefer something different? Maybe not a TGA sequence?Based on that info, you then send a short test to see if that works.
(BTW, it really burns me when people won’t let me talk to the tech folks involved. Sometimes one phone call can save days of guessing.)
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[Rick Neely] “24 bit audio”
You can definitely do 24 bit audio. Furthermore, you don’t need to use AE at all to do this.
I don’t have FCP in front of me right now so I’m not sure what is or isn’t available as a QT Export option, but I can tell you that in QuickTime Player Pro you can use the Export function to export a movie to a TGA Image Sequence and to export audio to 24bit/44.1khz (or even 32bit/44.1khz).
I’m guessing that FCP will allow you to export using a QT Conversion to these settings.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
Good luck, I’ve been dealing with a client like this for almost a year now. If you drop them, they don’t always go away.
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