Bjarki Gudjonsson
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I work with QT references alot, and you shouldn’t have any problems as long as you keep them in the same folder as your sources.
Good luck with your project!
B.
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[Per Holmes] “One can perhaps understand Avid because a studio-based multicamera shoot can easily have continuous sources. “
So that’s a valid excuse for Avid, but not FCP? And you’re still thinking about switching back? Aren’t you in the same place either way?
I think the biggest problem I see with this thing is the needles black rendering. That just bites. So I have an idea that I thought you might try. Take one of your 45 min sequences, which has only 2 minutes of footage.
Instead of having a black slug on the rest of the timeline, create a 1 min. black slug QuickTime using the same codec. “Black” your timeline with those files, and replace it only with the media you need to use where you need it. You should be able to export that as a reference file and it should take next to no space.
The only problem you’re gonna have here is the alternating formats, but as long as you have black slugs exported for each, you should be alright.
Hope this helps you!
Bjarki
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Funny, I was just talking about this today – saying that I didn’t know anyone that used LT. Thanks for the pointer, I’m going to take a closer look.
B.
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Hi Matthew!
Thanks, I’ll be in touch – I think we spoke while I worked as a Pro Video Consultant for Apple here in Iceland.
I decided to order the LHi through AValive.com and it was delivered yesterday.
Thanks,
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[Roli Rivelino] “I think you’re ok right up till the end of your post, where you say “In the future I would also like to edit 1080i and perhaps 1080p footage, again, via Pro-Res probably coming from the canon 7D or 5D.” “
I’m not so sure. I’ve been doing a lot of work with convertd 5D cameras on my iMac. It’s fine. I actually used the XDCAM EX codec, blending in with footage shot on XDCAM EX-3, but the ProRes should work fine.
B.
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Then we’ll agree to disagree.
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That’s pretty much what I’m trying to say. Thanks, David. I agree with you too, Walter, but the point you made in the fourth post of this thead is that when Rick says he has it in DV or DV50 you maintain that format doesn’t matter, which you know as well as I do isn’t true.
I did a project a year ago dealing with old film scans. I got the raw material on DV compressed QuickTimes and the producer wanted to squeeze more out of the footage. We went back and got uncompressed scans. It was a 3 minute historical ident for a shipping company, and I was surprised to see little nuances that I could tweak with those scans as opposed to the DV converted material.
My point here is, that you should try to keep your material at the best quality throughout your workflow. As soon as you comprimise, anything done after that point will be limited because of it.
I hope you understand what I’m trying to say.
B.
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[walter biscardi] “If you have DV project that is going to mastered back to DV or DVCAM tape, you gain nothing going to ProRes and in fact you add another layer of 5:1 DV compression when you go to tape so you end up with a more highly compressed image than if you had stayed in a DV timeline. “
That’s just not true. If had been shot originally in DV, then fine, but the guy has 16mm film scans. Film will always have the most available information. From there on, you’ll always want to keep the highest possible quality in your workflow, no matter what your output is.
Generally, I think there are a lot of young people in the business who don’t care about formats or quality, but the fact is that those of us that edited tape-to-tape and had to worry about generation degredation, know better.
DV will have no additional information in Color. It won’t give you any hidden higlight/shadow detail, and even for this gentleman is doing, will give you minimum color information to work with. Might as well use the 3-way Color Corrector in Final Cut (almost).
ProRes scans will give a lot more information, although DPX would be best.
B.
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Have you tried working with it in Color? What format do you have it in?
Regards,
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Well, I just don’t have that option, Walter. I’m in Iceland. I don’t have a local one-stop-shop, and even if I did, I’d still look around to make sure their prices are competetive. Generally when I buy something I’ve already decided what to get and how to set it up, so what I rally want is the best price.
Sure, it’d be nice to have them over for coffee, but at the end of the day, that’s not what I need. I’m looking to find an online reseller that I can trust and give me a good price.
Thanks for your input!
B.