[Dan Smith]

Simon, this is a great tutorial. Exactly what i needed to learn. thanks so much!

[Dan Smith]

Thanks Bob

We use apple software here. But I just bought a blu-ray writer and since apple doesnt support blu-ray (!) i’m going to give the premier/encore cs5 demo a spin.

Maybe as well as lovelly 264 blu-rays Encore can help me with better 5d mkII DVDs! I belive cs5 is ‘canon-aware’

thanks

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Dear Rafael – Sorry I missed your response at first.

Thanks for clearing that up. I think I totally understand now.

24p seems to be a nice kind of universal format for both systems. Can NTSC players pull down from Pal 25 to NTSC 29.97 in the same way?

Thanks again.

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Thanks Chris,

What you said seems to tie up with my tests – thanks. I left my project at 24p and it played fine on my crt tv.

If I keep everything at 24p, does this mean that I have a universal solution for playback – i.e on both pal and ntsc systems, because the DVD player will either pull down to 25 or 29.97 depending on the regional system?

Thanks for your help!

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Thanks Jonathan,

This is really useful to know.

All the best

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Thanks Dave,

I guess I will be sticking to the apple workflow!

best

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Thanks Shane, very helpful.

I have spent nine hours encoding all my footage to xdcam – following Phillip Bloom’s website tutorial. In hindsight i guess prores would have been the better choice. Though i aim to just reconform my timeline to the .264 files at the end of the job. That should work fine (i hope).

What you said about sticking to one system is good advice for the future. I’ll just have to upgrade my mac so he can handle more file crunching!

All the best

Dan

[Dan Smith]

Thanks for your response.

It’s interesting you should say that. I am following Phillip Bloom’s instruction as he seems to be ‘the man’ when it comes to DSLRs (i may be wrong!).

I guess i could have used pro-res. but in the end i will reconform my timeline to the original 264 files anyway so the xdcam proxies will only be an intermediary.

Does this sound agreeable to you?

thanks, Dan

[Dan Smith]

Hi Gary
Sorry, I thought my post mentioned that I would be editing in FCP.

I have actually done what I wanted to do now. Though it seems from some responses that I may have done the wrong thing. I followed Phillip Bloom’s website and encoded my Canon 7d .264s into xdcam ex footage. Someone mentioned that this is bad, but i aim to reconform all the 264 files at the end anyway.

my problem was that i wanted to use my PC to do some of the encoding (using mpeg streamclip) to speed things up. since i can’t export to xdcam using mpeg streamclip on a pc, i was looking for a universal codec that was equivalent to xdcam (or better) that both my pc and mac could create via mpeg streamclip that i could then use in fcp without any rendering required.

know you of such a codec?