XDCAM HD conversion for client to see

[Jerry Hofmann]

I think the question that needs to be answered is what do they want to use this for? Just viewing? or?

If they just want to look at it, maybe just an mp4 will do the trick… Just make it full sized.
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[Russell Lasson]

If they have the latest QuickTime loaded, then prores will work. Prores Proxy is quite small and user friendly. You could also use h264, but as Jerry says, it really depends on how they’re going to use it.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
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[Andy Mees]

[Jason Blalock] “My client asked for “1920 x 1080 uncompressed” delivery “

[Jason Blalock] “I shot Sony XDCAM HD 1080 24p, and imported using that codec …”
[Jason Blalock] “…I exported “using sequence settings””

So it sounds like they asked for delivery as “Uncompressed” but you sent them XDCAM HD … you could re-export using Apple’s Uncompressed codec and send them that, or as Russel and Jerry already suggested, maybe a good idea to double check with the client which codec it is that they want (or need).

Cheers
Andy

[Sam Cole]

[Andy Mees] ” you could re-export using Apple’s Uncompressed codec”

that always brings a smile to face when I read that the words “uncompressed codec” because ‘uncompressed’ means “no codec”.

But what Andy says is correct – you supplied a compressed format when they asked for uncompressed. Unfortunately, be prepared for a much larger file size!

Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia

[Andy Mees]

[Sam Cole] “‘uncompressed’ means “no codec”.”

Actually, Apple’s “Uncompressed” codec is indeed a codec … in Quicktime, if you seriously want “no codec”, then you should set the compressor to “None”. (Jason: don’t set your compressor to None, nobody uses None).

Cheers
Andy