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Workflow advice needed on mixing 7D & EX3 in Final Cut Pro 7
Hi
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
At the end of this week I will begin shooting weddings on a Canon 7D, and a Sony EX3. Shooting 1080p 25p on both. PAL.
Editing in Final Cut Pro 7 (Final Cut Studio) on a Mac Book Pro and a Mac Pro (16 gigs of RAM on the Mac Pro, 4gigs of RAM on the Mac Book Pro).
I have been using the 7D since July. I’ll be using the EX3 for the first time this week. I’ll use the EX3 for times of the day when audio is really important, and the 7D when I want to go unnoticed.
90% of the time, I will need to provide SD DVDs (PAL) to clients. I’ll know when a client wants Blu-Ray in advance.
My question relates to workflow.
I’ll tell you how I intend on editing and exporting and you can tell me where I might be going wrong.
I’ll be using DVD Studio Pro (latest version).
Convert 7D footage to Apple Pro Res (LT).
Convert XDCAM footage straight off cards into .mov files ready for editing in Final Cut using XDCAM Transfer.
Then I’m unsure…
Should I convert the XDCAM footage into Apple Pro Res (LT) as well? If so, I would:
-Set up a Pro Res timeline in Final Cut and drop it ALL into it, edit it, and then export using “current settings”. Then drop it into DVD Studio and convert to a SD DVD at ‘Best Quality 90mins’.
Or should I just export the footage from the timeline as a DV PAL file, instead of exporting “using current settings”?
I don’t want to edit in an SD timeline because I’d have to render all the time as I edit. If I edit in HD in a Pro Res timeline, it seems to be all good.
Where am I going wrong? Thanks for your help in advance!
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Thanks. If I do it this way, I want to make sure that I’m not degrading my image by taking my .mov XDCAM files and converting them to Pro Res LT?
The XDCAM files are mp4 on the camera. They’re then converted to .mov files onto a hard drive. And from there they’re converted into Pro Res LT in Compressor…and then edited. Just seem like a lot of workflow! That’s life I suppose!
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…and Pro Res 422 is a bit lower in quality than LT, right?…
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[Richard Doyle] “…and Pro Res 422 is a bit lower in quality than LT, right?…”
Other way around. ProRes LT (or LITE) is a bit lower quality than ProRes 422.
Shane
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I don’t get why it might be better, then, to edit in 422 instead of LT since 422 would be larger file sizes?
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File size is not really an issue with me. I have so many external 2TB and 1TB drives (accumulated by accident almost) that I’m really just interested in getting the best possible image. But do you think it’s worth it? Am I cheating a wedding client out of it by giving them LT instead of 422? What do you recommend? Cheers!
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