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Whats with all the rendering?
When I downconvert uncompressed 4:2:2 23.98 HD to NTSC 23.98 to make the file size manageable for offline I cannot playback the footage on the FCP timeline without rendering. When I playback uncompressed HD 23.98 with the presets set to 1080 23.98 no rendering is needed. I have tried setting the sequence, playback, and capture presets to uncompressed NTSC at 29.97, 23.98 with a variety of codecs. Any ideas on how to improve the workflow. All the rendering is a bummer just to play the clips in realtime. Using FCP 5, Tiger, 2.5 Gig dual G5, 8 gigs of ram, Decklink HD Pro dual link card, Fibre channel to S-Two disk array.
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Seems to me that your workflow would be better if you captured the video as NTSC instead of HD… Then no renders would be needed. You can do this with a sony machine’s down convert or with the blackmagic card, no? Then for online, only capture what’s used in the sequence after managing it with the Media Manager.
Jerry
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