[Huw Jenkins]

it makes an html file, a jpg for the poster, a reference movie, and the m4v.

thanks

[Huw Jenkins]

wow, many thanks for the quick answers. it has helped me.

i now have a little more info:

the library i’m providing is Getty, i have found out that they supply footage at 10bit Pro Res HQ. i can supply them with this, or uncompressed, but they will convert it to ProRes.

If i want to go to Pro Res, at what stage should I convert my footage? I intend to keep copies of everything i supply them with in uncompressed. Should I render out to uncompressed then use compressor to make the pro res, or render from the timeline a version of each codec using the sequence settings menu?

Getty will either color correct the footage I send them, or allow me to have it color corrected/color correct it myself. I guess they want their library to look great, so don’t like to have ungraded footage in it. I see it as they have only a set time to do each clip, where as i can spend longer on everything and make it shine, so is why i’m doing the grading.

Now a theoretical question, how many times would 4:2:2 footage be able to be graded successfully. For example, if I grade it, convert to ProRes 4:2:2, Getty decides to grade it, and then the client decides that it needs to be early morning and wants to grade it too? would it be any more better if it stayed uncompressed, it’s still only 4:2:2, right?

thanks again, huw