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Alec Beard
January 5, 2011 at 1:13 am in reply to: Prores LT to HQ recompression?

Not sure. It’s not my movie, but I’m guessing it would like to go the film festival route and then to dvd. The low budget indie film route, if you will
Alec Beard
January 5, 2011 at 1:03 am in reply to: Prores LT to HQ recompression?

Thanks so much for your help. One more question. Is there enough of a difference between HQ and LT to worry about? This is an indie film with color correction but no fancy graphics or anything. Could LT be used the whole way through?
Alec Beard
January 5, 2011 at 12:42 am in reply to: Prores LT to HQ recompression?

Thanks Shane. Live and learn, huh? It’s always something. Especially when you have no idea what you’re doing, like me.

I guess as an alternative I could buy a larger drive and recompress every file and just replace all the LTs with HQs and then reconnect everything. That would take some serious processing time, but might be easier than doing it clip by clip, huh?
Alec Beard
January 5, 2011 at 12:12 am in reply to: Prores LT to HQ recompression?

Cool, thanks. So I guess bigger does not mean better? I was wondering why it would make the file larger if it weren’t getting better. But I guess it just increases the space (and therefore size), but the quality doesn’t get better.

My problem is how to get them all HQ without going back to the original disks, but I guess that’s impossible. It’s a feature film, so there are a lot of files to go through and it’d be nice just to recompress the clips in my sequence. But I’m not sure how to do that since the media files were converted using Mpeg streamclip, not Log and Transfer. If I could do it over again I would definitely have a different workflow, but it’s too late for that.
Alec Beard
December 6, 2010 at 11:50 pm in reply to: ProRes clips need to render in ProRes sequence?

I’m having this same problem too, and I’m using a G5 running Final Cut 7. That might be the problem, huh?
Alec Beard
November 29, 2009 at 5:31 am in reply to: New external HD = slower rendering??

Hey Jerry, thanks for the help. So G5 wouldn’t work?

I guess my best option is to buy a SATA card for my G-Drive?

Thanks again,
Alec
Alec Beard
November 28, 2009 at 3:39 pm in reply to: New external HD = slower rendering??

So I could buy another external hard drive. Is there a way to use one external drive and the internal drive? Or is that not recommended?

How would I split up the files if I were to get two hard drives?
Alec Beard
November 28, 2009 at 3:08 pm in reply to: New external HD = slower rendering??

So if I wanted to use my external for storage and internal for rendering (or vice versa), that would speed it up? Would you recommend doing that? Would I just go to system settings and make the audio and video rendering happen somewhere else?
Alec Beard
November 28, 2009 at 3:54 am in reply to: New external HD = slower rendering??

It’s a 1 tb G-Drive. Nothing else hooked up to it. The footage is from a Sony EX-1, HD. I know it’s going to be slow, but it just seems slower ever since I switched to using an external hard drive vs. the internal.