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XDCAM… rendering to ProRes?
Hi there,
I haven’t worked with XDCAM before. I have a bunch of footage shot on an EX1 – brought it into FCP 6… did not convert to ProRes. I saw in another forum thread that it was recommended to keep it in XDCAM but to set preferences to render to ProRes – why is that?
Many thanks,
Shane -
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Because XDCAM is very lossy – you wouldn’t really want lossy renders, particularly when it comes to graphics and text. By switching to ProRes you’re giving it a codec optimized for post production – it’s not uncompressed, but it doesn’t have the demands of uncompressed.
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