[Connie Simmons]

I have an HD series shot using 2 Sony Cinealta F900s. I am awaiting the results of a hardware encode that my post house is doing for me this weekend. I purchased CinemaCraft Encoder MP and have had BitVice, which I have always liked. Before I encoded all 13 episodes, I wanted to see which looked better to my eye.

I can post results later if you would like.

BEst, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

Hi. I had a program (HD Cam footage imported through AJA IOHD into ProResHQ) and I used many high resolution stills. I also tried to render in YUV high precision. I had different things happen to the renders of the stills(black screen instead of still, strange color, so I ended up 1) taking those stills and handles and putting them in a timeline where I changed the settings to 8-bit YUV), 2) rendering them, and 3)exporting them as a QT movie, current settings (no Audio), and then 4) importing them into my timeline as a clip.

A pain but seemed to work. I am still not sure if there is a difference in final quality of the 8-bit and 10-bit YUV high quality rendering setting.

Best, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

HI. I had a dual G5 and I bought an quad-core Mac Pro with and AJA IOHD to ingest Sony Cinealta F900 HDCAM tapes using the ProResHQ codec. After a few fits and starts, it worked wonderfully!

Best, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

Hi, John. Before I had a fast raid storage system, I had a situation where I edited a program first in HD downconverted to SD and then had to reconnect the HD to the sequence.
I created a new HD sequence, and copied the SD sequence into it. I then removed the drive with the SD footage and all that remained was the HD footage. I directed my FCP project to the HD footage and it linked up (same name for the clips, of course).
However, some of the clips in my timeline did have weird aspect rations and sizes (225 for the size I think and aspect ration of -12.5 or -33, I can’t remember).
I took one clip and fixed the aspect ration and size, then selected all of the other clips, right clicked for Paste Attribute, Basic Motion, and then they all had the right aspect ration and size.

Hope that helps.

Best, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

I just downloaded some Avid codecs that will allow me to export a FCP HD project into a QT file that Avid can read. I am actually tring it now. Avid’s website has these for download.

Best, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

Hi. Does anybody know a way to convert a ProResHQ QT movie into a codec that an Avid can read? Thanks. Connie Simmons

[Connie Simmons]

HI, Ken – I am having this problem with 1080i 29.97 material. I was wondering if for some reason I needed to make my graphics little Prores HQ movies. Seems strange though.

BEst, COnnie SImmons

[Connie Simmons]

Thank you for your response. Yes, I am panning and zooming on some, but teh others are just too big I guess. I’ll scale them down.

What do you mean about prerendering them in another codec before puting them in the timeline?

THanks, Connie

[Connie Simmons]

Here is an example of what I mean. https://www.paintingclass.us/Pages/Glitch.html

[Connie Simmons]

Hi. I have 2 5 terabyte esata drives. It glitched there, then I copied everything onto one of my 4 internal harddrives and it happened there as well. I can narrow one part of it down – it only happens on images – all RGB, all fairly large(3000 x 4000). If I rightclick and reconnect media – to the same media! – it seems to stabilize for a while. Then it later happens again. I have a clip of the problem, if I can figure out how to upload it.

It happens on the timeline and in the QT movie. I finally output a QT movie