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Workflow Question
Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding my FCP workflow and was hoping I could get a little feedback to push me in the right direction.
I am an animation director new to FCP, working on a 12 min independent short. Usually I would work with an editor, but my wife and I are wearing all hats on this production.All animation is computer generated in After Effects at 1920 x 1080 @ 23.976 and ultimately I would like to have the flexibility to print to film.
Would you recommend:
1. Convert uncompressed quicktimes of individual shots to ProRes (medium quality?).
2. Edit movie using ProRes as an intermediate.
3. Send edit to Color.
4. Bring graded footage back to FCP
5. Upres to uncompressed footage.Do you notice any potential problems in the workflow? Is there a better way to do it? How smooth is the upres process? Any advice would be much appreciated.
I am working on a MacPro Octo-core w/16gb of ram.
Thanks,
Max
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3 Replies
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1. no (if your disks are fast enough)
2. no (if your disks are fast enough)
3. big yes if you want to do grading
4. yes (well it’s part of the process)
5. don’t know – Q1 suggests you are bringing in uncompressed shots. Aren’t you?Jaap
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Thanks for responding, Jaap.
I figured it would be ideal if I edited uncompressed. I can’t spring for an external raid system now. I could configure a software Raid 0 with two drives, cross my fingers and backup religiously. Do think that will give me enough speed? -
If it is 1920×1080 uncompressed it better be fast – and you will need a Sata connection at the least. The data rate will be at least 120MB/sec and higher if it is 10-bits instead of 8-bits; or progressive instead of interlaced.
Jaap
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