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Anne Leaf
February 15, 2012 at 8:09 pm in reply to: Exporting ProRes422 HQ – do I recompress all frames?

Sorry for the lack of info!

I’m working off a macbook pro, OS 10.6.8, Final Cut 7, Memory 8 GB, Processor 2.2 GHz

The footage is Apple ProRes 422 HQ, 1920×1080. This is a quicktime file that came back from the color correct. We added the graphics and now we’re exporting it out to bring back to the post house to lay off to tape.

I just did another two tests.

1. Instead of playing the footage back in Quicktime I brought it into Final Cut and it looked fine. this is with recompress frames unchecked.

2. I exported a reference file, brought it into Compressor and exported an Apple Pro Res 422HQ for Progressive material. This also played funky in QT but fine in FCP. This seems by far the fastest way to go but it makes me nervous to do this way.

If it plays back OK in Final Cut does that mean I’m good? Is it safe to export a reference file and then send it through compressor or will I lose quality that way?

Thanks again for the fast response.
Anne Leaf
June 3, 2010 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Checing on 5D workflow

Thanks Shane! Sounds like ProRes will be the easiest and still be affordable, but I’ll put the proxy option out there for the producers also. They can crunch the numbers as they say…

Cheers!
Anne
Anne Leaf
June 3, 2010 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Checing on 5D workflow

I just meant besides the internal SATA drives I can only add firewire and usb external drives. I have about 4TB inside, but we will probably go beyond that. Buying a sata card might be possible, but I don’t think necessary if we’re editing ProRes?
Anne Leaf
December 1, 2009 at 4:11 pm in reply to: Color problems capturing from a sony u-matic

Thanks so much everyone! I’ll go to markertek and try the frame sync device.

Best,
Anne
Anne Leaf
May 9, 2007 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Problems monitoring audio with VO Tool

Really? So you can’t monitor as you record if you don’t have a mixer? That’s so weird because in the manual it has this cute simple little diagram of a mic going into an audio interface going into a laptop and headphones going out. And it literally says: “Step 6: Plug in your headphones Connect your headphones to the headphone port of your computer, and you
Anne Leaf
April 5, 2005 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Timecode Display with Panasonic AG-DV2000?

Thank you so much!
I googled for the manual but couldn’t find it. I’ll use amazon in the future.
-anne
Anne Leaf
April 5, 2005 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Timecode Display with Panasonic AG-DV2000?

Thanks so much for your reply. There is no character button that I can find. There is a display button, but it only changes the display on the deck, not on the monitor. There is also a button which will display the tapes date and time on the monitor, which leads me to believe there must be a way to display the timecode…