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Eric Kornblum replied to the discussion What to do about getting uncompressed codecs when shooting slow motion? in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:33:20 +0000

Reply to What to do about getting uncompressed codecs when shooting slow motion?

Hiya Tim,
As others here have mentioned, MP4 spans a broad range of quality levels depending on the bit depth (8 bit vs 10 bit), chroma subsampling (4:2:2 vs 4:2:0), and data rate.

8 bit 4:2:0 is pretty common as a final delivery format, so in theory if you shot everything framed, exposed, and white balanced perfectly in-camera, and you didn’t…

Eric Kornblum replied to the discussion FCPX Project Settings Feature Film shot on Arri Alexa Mini in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:24:22 +0000

Reply to FCPX Project Settings Feature Film shot on Arri Alexa Mini

I’d recommend finding out what the final delivery settings are going to be (hopefully the production company can provide clarification on that…) and set your project to match those settings. If the source files are too taxing on your machine/drives for those settings, FCPX will let you create proxies for the media so you can work on a more…