[Chris Tarroza]

Thanks Micahel.

I have FCP7 and I see a whole bunch of different options for ProRes. I just tried using Apple ProRes (HQ) 1280×720 30p 48kHz. It looks good to me but is there any specific one that I should use?

Clearly, I’ve been missing out on this whole ProRes talk as it seems to come up many times in these forums. Is there a good resource to look up the differences between the different kinds of ProRes, i.e. HQ, LT, Proxy, the-ones-that-don’t-say-anything-beside-them (normal ProRes?), and 4444?

Thanks again!

[Chris Tarroza]

Hi Mark,

Try Export>Quicktime Movie and leave the drop down menu to ‘Current Settings’. If you want to make a reference file, make sure ‘Make Self Contained’ is unchecked. Exporting this way will make a file in the exact same settings as your sequence, which should be the same as your original footage.

As was said earlier, try to play the exported file in Quicktime or some other program and see if the problem still persists.

If all else fails… make sure your resolution in AE is set to ‘Full’. I remember freaking out when I left it to ‘Third’ and wondered what was going on!

[Chris Tarroza]

Well that answers that. Thanks a lot!

[Chris Tarroza]

So I called the company who dubbed the tape and got things figured out. I just want to thank you guys for helping out though.

Just in case someone else has this problem, I’ll explain the solution (something I wish other people would do instead of just, “It’s okay I figured it out”).

Strange that the camera person said 1080i30p… just typing that out seems weird because how can something be progressive and interlace at the same time? It can’t, as far as I know, but hey I don’t know too much.

When we had the tape dubbed, it was down-converted all the way to SD 16:9 footage. Not HDV, not HD at all. Just some really good looking SD footage.

So capturing it in FCP would mean that all I have to do is leave it at NTSC DV and check the little Anamorphic box and there you go.