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Eren Gulfidan
November 16, 2016 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Choosing color bit depth when transcoding 10-bit footage

Thanks, Chris. Ideally, I want to transcode the MXF footage into a format that I can use for the edit, the VFX, and color. The amount of footage I have isn’t much, and that’s why I thought I could go with ProRes 4444 instead of proxy, thinking my system can handle it. Also my colorist usually asks for 4444 to grade on, so that was also a factor.

When I choose OpenEXR, I’m only seeing 32-bit floating point, not 16. And AME says “not recommended” next to the 32-bit floating point. Should I be installing a different codec here for EXR?

So overall, do you think ProRes 4444 with 64-bit depth would be the way to go? And should I be checking ‘render at maximum depth’ or leave it unchecked? Thank you.
Eren Gulfidan
September 14, 2015 at 8:23 pm in reply to: Conforming 23.98 sequence to 29.97

Thanks, Jon. Yeah Adobe Premiere Pro does make it look OK even though sound does go out of sync sometimes. But as I mentioned in my earlier post, I also need to do a transfer of this project into FCP upon the client’s request and that’s where things get tricky. So I’m trying to how to handle that. Should I create the new fps timeline on AP and do the FCP xml transfer afterwards or should I transfer to FCP and then create a new timeline on FCP? Thanks for all the input!
Eren Gulfidan
September 14, 2015 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Conforming 23.98 sequence to 29.97

Thanks, Shane. Great to hear from you. I’ve read a lot of your posts regarding this issue. You have a tutorial regarding fixing this issue by using compressor. Do you still endorse that? I was also going to give Twixtor a try. I know it only does a pulldown on video so I have to recut the audio.
Eren Gulfidan
September 13, 2015 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Conforming 23.98 sequence to 29.97

Hi David,

When I put the 23.98 sequence into a new 29.97 timeline on Premiere, some of the audio goes out of sync but I’m not getting any drop frames or black bars or anything. Does that mean the project conformed itself to 29.97 even though the clips in it are still 23.98?

But when I do a FCP7 output with XML, the audio is even more out of sync and I am also missing all my multicam clips? They don’t transfer at all. Any idea why this may be? Thank you for all your help.
Eren Gulfidan
September 12, 2015 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Conforming 23.98 sequence to 29.97

Thanks for the quick reply, David. I’ll try that, though I’m not sure if the production house has a video monitor, I’ll check.

The second step of this whole thing is that the client wants the project to be transferred from Premiere to FCP7. So I was going to do this XML transfer after I fix the FPS issue.

Do you think I should create a new sequence with the 29.97 setting on Premiere and then do the xml transfer. Or transfer it to FCP 7 first and then do the fps conform?
Eren Gulfidan
August 17, 2015 at 11:04 pm in reply to: Audio problems when importing XML file into FCP 7 (Premiere – FCP incompatibility?)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your response. The footage was shot on several different cameras, but then all of it was converted to Apple ProRes 422. The audio was recoded on a zoom H4n as well as onto a set of lavs which were connected to Red camera. Does this info help?