• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Workflow help… Short video, much footage!

  Posted by Harvey Zinc on August 17, 2009 at 6:15 pm

  Hi All

  We are producing a three minute promo that contains many slow motion sequences. All the original material is HDV shot with a Z1U in 60i. The finished master will be ProRes HQ or another high quality format (animation??? recommendations ???) from which we will output to the various other formats needed (SD DVD, HD DVD, web uses and submasters/files to broadcasters etc. Many of the shots will be heavily processed … compositing, slow motion, titles, graphics, stylizing/looks and color correction but the major effect is the slow motion. We’ve done a few tests but I would like your comments as to which post workflow will get us the highest quality results while keeping the project in house working in FinalCutStudio2.

  We have already captured all materials (10 hours… I know too much footage but the material is also being used to cut a documentary) into FCP in HDV 60i (as shot) as we don’t have enough space to capture all at a higher format. So should we edit in a HDV timeline up to a fine cut and then reprocess all of the clips on the timeline to the mastering format, reassemble those new master clips to match the HDV fine cut and then redo the effects for all of new clips? OR

  Should we do the cut using mix formats on the timeline? For example leave the clips that have minimal or no effects in the HDV format and convert the heavily processed clips to the master format before applying those effects? Wonder also about render and playback issues from that timeline?

  As mentioned earlier the slow motion effect is a main concern. We have tested taking a HDV clip from the FCP HDV timeline applying a motion effect (20%) and then exporting to Motion for their Optical Flow processing. The quality looks good but would the results be a higher quality if we convert the HDV clip into the mastering format (for example ProRes HQ) apply the slowmo (20%) effect and then send it to Motion for it to process the Optical flow effect? And would this be the way to treat all the clips that need vfx applied?

  We are working on an 8 core 2.6GHz 8GB 800Mhz ram machine and at this time we don’t have a broadcast monitor to in house but will have to rent one to finish.

  Thanks to all. Cheers Harvey

  Harvey Zinc replied 16 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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