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Uncompressed quality with spacesaving compression?
I’ve various 4:2:2 footage, DVCPro 50, Digibeta, etc.
I have a Quad G5 and this week I’m going to buy the Kona LHe card.
I’m going to start to capture thru SDI, and I’m thinking of using some of the Uncompressed codecs.My question is how do I get maximum quality from my tapes and still use as little HD space as possible?
A capture at around 10 MB/sec would be nice.Are there any non destructive uncompressed codecs that will work with my setup to be?
If I go 8 Bit uncompressed the filesize will be around 20 MB/sec?
What are my options?
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[Mike Johnson] “Are there any non destructive uncompressed codecs that will work with my setup to be?
If I go 8 Bit uncompressed the filesize will be around 20 MB/sec?
What are my options?”
Your options are 8bit and 10bit Uncompressed if that’s what you’re trying to do. Yes, 8bit is around 20MB/s and 10bit is around 30 – 40MB/s.
Uncompressed is uncompressed. If you want options, then you look at compressed codecs like DV50, DV, DVCAM, Motion JPEG, etc…
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Though not uncompressed, I’ve had good luck with DV50. It’s 4:2:2 at about 3:1 compressed. Fine for corporate/industrial, dealer sales videos, local spots, etc.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
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Supposedly Photo Jpeg at 75% is really sweet, but there’s no r/t effects. Apparently, there’s a way to hack FCP to enable Photo Jpeg r/t, but I don’t know the code.
You should look at Sheer Video as they have a codec that’s supposedly uncompressed at a fraction of the bandwidth, but there’s no r/t there either as Apple, for some reason, wants to hold the codec reigns tightly.
Jeremy
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you must be referring to “The O’Neil Hack”:
nick
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Anyone know if this is doablein FCP5?
John
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Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.0.4, DVDSP4.0.2, Comp2.0.1, STP1.0.2)
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the post is less than a year old, so it may well be referring to FCP5.
try it.
he does recommend making a back-up so you can always go back.
nick
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