David Battistella
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A) leave it in HDV and color correct (it should output a preview fine on my Kona 3 to the PVM20L5)
DO NOT DO THIS
b) export to an DVCproHD codec (I dont think I have enough drive space for full uncompressed – though I do have the bandwidth for it)
CONSIDER DOING THIS. THINK ABOUT 8-bit uncompressed
c) leave in HDV codec, color correct, then change seq to DVCproHD codec and re-render entire seq before output to tape.
NO NO NO
d) though a big investment, buy Final Touch HD and do all CC in there. (I belive it can read HDV files – then I just render to whatever codec I want)
That’s a thought
(I have played with a FInal Touch system a number of times and while not 100% up to speed – I could be pretty fluid by the time the session starts)
E) find a new profession herding sheep and forget I ever heard the term “HDV”
Ah!!! Now you are getting somewhere!
David
Seriously.
How would you like to do it all uncompressed 10 bit and then and have it be the same size as DVCPRO HD. YOU CAN. Since you know that you are going to render it anyway I would suggest that you install the Sheer Video codec. This will allow you to run it all in lossless 10 bit uncompressed but with a file size of about 7MB/sec. I have been experimenting with this in my place. I have replaced all of my AE renders with this codec to save space (about a third of annimation codec with the same quality and carries an alpha).
This is not an RT optimized codec but since you will be rendering everything anyways it will be great. Check this out. If you capture CC’d masters you can use this codec to capture and then create a sequence preset to match it. This will keep your SD file sizes down as well.
This is the one of the greatest hidden gems in FCP codecs. I will be coming out with an article about all of this soon.
David
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Try quitting FCP and restarting.
Also.
What deck are you using?
david
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Try quitting FCP and restarting.
Also.
What deck are you using?
david
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None is strictly a transcoding CODEC. It is not meant to be played back in real time. None is a 4:4:4 and is only an 8 bit codec while 10 bit uncompressed is 4:2:2 and has a better bit depth.
You can learn a lot about codecs here:
https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/
Using none or annimation is overkill. You will get better results and save a ton of disk space using Sheer Video Codec http://www.bitjazz.com and you can play this back in RT with FCP.
David
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You should never defrag media drives. In fact the drives rely on being fragmented to perform reliabaly for video and audio.
Start with a drive that has been reformatted by the mac os and reformat it every couple of years.
David
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Welcome to the world of HDV.
Everything you describe is perfectly correct. You have the right workflow in Motion, etc. The problem lies inteh HDV codec. When you drop your pristine annimation into an HDV tieline then it has to be recompressed to HDV. The codec uses its own algorithm to decide how to compress it to the 20:1 compression HDV requires. Each codec on the market respond differently.
The only way to really ensure crisp graphics is to change the sequence CODEC to something like 8 or 10 bit uncompressed. This will require a render and MUCH faster drives to play out, but your graphics will hold together because they will not suffere the artifacting of 20:1 compression.
David
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I have been waiting more than a month!
David
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Sounds like you capured audio and video to separate files.
David
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Select the clip in the timeline.
APPLE KEY>OPTION>L
This opens a prompt to riase the audio by a specific DB.
David
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Perhaps what you are witnessing is safe action.
In FCP when you turn on the safe title safe action in the canvas widow, Is it about the same size as you see in the monitor?
David