George Dean
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Jay, I’m going to let you down on this, other than my previous suggestion to contact them and ask in ProRes will do. If so use the 1080 4:2:2 Magix Intermediate render format. It is not an h.264, but I would think if they are using FCP, they would prefer that as it runs smoother.
I have managed to avoid Apple products every since they came on the market, so I really do not know what will for sure run on a Mac. You could send John Refrano (is a long time member here) a message as he is a Mac pro and I’m sure he could help you if he is available (actually John is a pro about Windows also).
Best Regards……George
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Hi Jay, as Francois points out .mov is a container and does not specify the format. When I read your first post I jumped to a conclusion I should not have thinking you wanted ProRes.
The MAGIX Intermediate render format will produce an .mov container, however it will be formatted as ProRes. This may actually be better for your client, but I would recommend, since they have asked for an h.264 (as you posted above) to ask them if they prefer ProRes and what level 4:2:2 LT, 4:2:2, 4:2:2 HQ, 4:4:4, 4:4:4 XQ, as Vegas Pro 15/16 will render them all. Most of them are probably overkill in quality, so it is better to ask the client I think so they get what they prefer.
As far as producing a h.264.mov, I don’t think you can get that out of Vegas. You can render out an MPEG4 in the mp4 container and probably just change the extension name to ‘mov’, and players will probably play it, but it will not be a true Quicktime file.
Hope I haven’t made this more confusing than it has to be, maybe Francois has a better, easier, quicker way.
Also, I would suggest, whatever you and your client decide is best for you, send them a short test file so they can feed it into their NLE and approve it. Most likely they are using Final Cut, which I know very, very little about.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Rob,
There are a couple ways to move this along quicker, you will like No. 2 I think.
1. I would suggest setting this up with the event/clip, then save your changes as a preset. Then I realized I had not looked at the presets!!!! Sure enough there is a 1:1 preset in Pan & Crop already. I think this is included by default.
2. Use the Pan & Crop preset to setup the 1:1 Square dimensions. Make sure that event/clip is selected, right click and select ‘Copy’. Then select the next event/clip, move to the end of the project, hold down ‘Shift’ then click on the last event/clip, this will select all the events/clips in your project, Right click on any of the selected events/clips and select ‘Paste Event Attributes’. That should then copy the Pan & Crop from the first event you copied into all the rest of the events you mass selected.
Best Regards……George
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I agree.
Best Regards……George
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If you are using VP15 or VP16 you can use the Magix Intermediate render format. If on a previous version I would suggest to download and install Avid’s codec and use the DNXHD (1080) or DNxHR (4K), these will render to a mov container. When you install the Avid codec the render formats will show up in the Quick Time render folder (you may need to install QuickTimePlayer 7.6 or 7.7). Probably be best to check with your client first to see if they will accept the Avid DNx.
Best Regards……George
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Francois, Thank You for providing your experience. I’m in the US so it doesn’t effect me, but I’m sure it will be valuable to others. Can you tell us what the difference was?
Best Regards……George
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Hi Jay,
Obviously this doesn’t help for your issue today…..
In addition to ‘Save’, when I have made any changes to the program that I don’t want to spend hours recreating, I do incremental changes, so all my projects start with something like ‘Downtown Nightlife-001.veg’, then ‘Downtown Nightlife-002.veg’ and so on. It has saved me many times.
Best Regards……George
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That’s what I would do, make the Project frame size match your source media and make the changes as I outlined above and it should come out dandy.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Rob,
Open up Pan & Crop and right click on the video displayed and select ‘Restore’. That should set everything back to default.
Then check to assure the icon ‘Lock Aspect Ratio’ is un-checked (the icon will look like lock with XY in the background.
Then under ‘Position’ change the ‘width’ to ‘1080’ to match the height, making it a square. You can then move the square border viewing area around to show whatever past the 1920 width you want included. You can also animate this if needed.
When you render, in the render template change the ‘Frame size:’ to ‘Custom Frame Size’, then manual change the width of 1920 to match your square ‘1080’. Render out and enjoy.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Terence,
I would just like to follow an addition to Ole. Like he, I use a Panasonic GH4. Like he I use an Atomos Ninja Flame. By the time you add a few extra batteries, several SSD drive for recording, some attachment gizmo’s for mounting the camera and recorder, they are a bit pricey. But once I did that, I never looked back. And here are 2 additional benefits….
1. I have several SSD drives of 500GB and 1TB, which when you start recording higher bit rate DNx and/or ProRes will enable you to record all day, and the drives are hot swapable and swap out quickly.
2. The Atomos Ninja Flame has a 7″ HD monitor, which also has a bunch of feature for focus assist, exposure control, as well as, being able to load a LUT, if you are recording in V-Log L, you can see the Rec 709 conversion right on the Ninja Flame monitor, and it also has some HDR to ticker with.
In addition, Resolve 15.2.3 likes either the ProRes or DNx formatted files.
Soon I will probably be adding a GH5. But even though it will record 422 10 bit internally, I will most likely also get an Atomos recorder to attach to it for the extra benefits they offer. Of course there are various Atomos models and I think Balckmagic makes a nice recorder monitor as well. Just my few cents.
Best Regards……George