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Eric Strand
October 11, 2011 at 3:18 am in reply to: Working with both 720×480 and 1440×1080 in the same project

You said you wanted to maintain the best quality. 1440×1080 is higher quality than 720×480, more pixels. I suggested editing in HD because you said most of your stuff is HD. If your sequence is 720×480 that means you’re editing in SD.

In your position right now, the easiest and least technical option would be to edit in SD. Leave your sequence as 720×480. When you export your HD footage should look fine.
Eric Strand
October 11, 2011 at 2:47 am in reply to: Working with both 720×480 and 1440×1080 in the same project

The easiest way would be to open up one of your 1440×1080 clips in Qucktime and type apple+i to get the movie information window. Write down what it says next to format.

In Compressor type what the format is into the search window. It could be HDV or DVCPRO HD or something else. Whatever format it is, pick the setting that matches in Compressor and drag it onto your video. Then click submit.
Eric Strand
October 11, 2011 at 2:20 am in reply to: Working with both 720×480 and 1440×1080 in the same project

Sorry for not being clearer. Yes the 720×480 is the Standard Definition footage. Since you’re going to the web, you could just up convert it to HD in Compressor. It won’t look as good as the HD movies, but it will conform with your timeline.
Eric Strand
October 11, 2011 at 1:04 am in reply to: Working with both 720×480 and 1440×1080 in the same project

You could run the SD footage through compressor and up convert it to HD. Or if you’re delivering the content on DVD you could just edit your project in SD. The HD footage looks blurry because you haven’t rendered the project. If you exported, it would look fine.
Eric Strand
October 4, 2011 at 2:00 am in reply to: changing speed to a clip

In the speed options menu you have Ripple Sequence checked.
Eric Strand
October 3, 2011 at 2:22 am in reply to: Aspect Ratio problems

What if you create a new sequence, drop a clip into it, click yes, then copy and paste your clips from the original timeline into the new one?
Eric Strand
October 1, 2011 at 12:33 am in reply to: Creating a Proxy lo-res or offline HD From DVCPROHD

Use media manager to create an offline sequence. Shane Ross’ tutorial should help you.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless_online/video-tutorial
Eric Strand
September 26, 2011 at 2:05 am in reply to: Importing: Apple ProRes 4444 Footage into FCP 6

Did a quick Google search and found this on the 2nd hit.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2242913?start=0&tstart=0
Eric Strand
September 26, 2011 at 2:04 am in reply to: Importing: Apple ProRes 4444 Footage into FCP 6

ProRes 4444 was not created when FCP6 came out, it was released with FCP7, so I’m not sure if you would be able to use it in FCP6.
Eric Strand
September 25, 2011 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Struggling to get best quality when finishing my projects!

1. You are correct in transcoding to ProRes, you’d probably want to transcode to ProRes 422, not LT. When you finish your project, go up to File > Export > Quicktime Movie. Make sure current settings are selected and that it’s a self contained quicktime movie.

2. You need to find out what format they want it delivered in, but I’d be willing to be it’d be h.264. Take your quicktime movie and drop it into MPEG Streamclip or Compressor and apply the h.264 setting.

You need to watch Shane Ross’ tutorial on tapeless workflow and FCP 7

https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

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