Arnie Schlissel
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[Robb Harriss] “our remedy is to take footage in via the Kona card in HDSDI and scale it to ProRes in real time.”
[Robb Harriss] “Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.”
I don’t know, Robb… That solution sounds very, umm… linear to me…
(wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
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[Peter Corbett] “I tried dropping a stack of AVC-Intra P2 1080 files on the same SD timeline and they rendered 10x quicker than the XDCAM 422’s.”
That’s because the AVC-I is not long-GOP. It’s recorded in camera as whole frames. The XDCam is recorded in camera as 12 or 15 frame groups, and those groups need to be decoded into individual, whole frames.
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You should be able to give him a TIFF or Targa sequence.
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You can open a sequence of consecutively numbered image files in QT Pro and export them as a movie in any codec that you have installed on your Mac. If you have AE, Shake, Combustion, Motion, Nuke or any other pro motion graphics or compositing software, you can import a sequence of consecutively numbered image files and export them as a QT or AVI in whatever codec you have on your computer.
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Why not send him an image sequence? That’s what’s commonly used to move between platforms in much of the VFX world. TIFF sequences, for example, are readable by pretty much any platform.
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you can certainly do it in AE, but it involves precomposing, which I find to be a pain.
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I think you’re hitting the wall created by the lack of a broadcast monitor. You don’t have any way to accurately see what your end result is going to be.
You should buy something like a Panasonic Pro plasma or a JVC LCD monitor and an entry level capture card like he Black Magic Intensity, Matrox MXO 2 series, or AJA Io Express. This will allow you to see accurately what is really going on with your output. It will save you the headache of being rejected, and it will pay for itself by not having to redo work.
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Media 100 is now owned by Boris FX. You should see if Boris has a legacy codec for you to download.
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Make your life easy. Use a preset for either 1920×1080 or 1280×720 that’s square pixels and ProRes.
You will have to redo some of your work. Well, most of your work, but you should be able to bill that back to the client.
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Personally, I would do this in Shake. You can do this in either FCP or Motion using something like Conduit from DV Garage. You might be able to do this in Motion without Conduit, as well. In FCP it would be too difficult to bother with.
In Motion, use a color key or levels to create a high contrast black & white image, then use that as a track matte to layer an unblurred version over a blurred version of the shot.
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