John Pale
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h264 would be a bad choice, as it is not an editing codec.
What are you going to output to when you are finished editing? This will determine the answer of what codec to edit in.
As for the dimensions.. If you mean 640×480….this is the SD video frame size when viewed with square pixels on a computer display…720×486 is the dimensions for a video monitor, which displays using D1 rectangular pixels.
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I was aware of that David, and maybe for accuracy I should have mentioned it… but the old legacy stuff isn’t really relevant to what he is doing and not really a practical option in 2009.
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If you want this to actually be HD and be able to be output to tape, the answer is no… Not possible. All HD formats are 16:9. If you want higher quality SD images, do as Walter suggested and work uncompressed. Note that if you output to DV tape from uncompressed you will lose all the benefits… Output to digibeta. If you are not outputting to tape, then you are not restricted to standard formats and frame sizes.
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This is likely something you are misunderstanding about the process…the presets all work correctly, though depending on what you are doing you may have to tweak them.
We need a little more info, as the answer will differ slightly depending on what you are trying to compress for.
For starters…
What codec/format would you like to encode to?
What codec/format are you editing in?
Is this for the web…DVD…editing in another system…viewing on a computer..etc??Please note, that with SD, with many codecs Quicktime Player will display a 16 x 9 image as squeezed into 4:3.
This is normal, as many codecs do not inform Quicktime Player that you are using anamorphic pixels. You can correct this by opening the movie properties (cmd + J) , clicking on the file name, then selecting the Presentation tab. Change the Conform Aperture setting to Encoded Pixels.
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No. You should only be using uncompressed aif or wav files in fcp. (that means no AAC, MP3, either) You will need to convert outside of fcp.
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Not in front of a system right now, but many menu items can be assigned to the keyboard… Open the keyboard layout and see if you can do it…
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It turns off the clip. Do Not turn off the track.
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Is the video they are looking at on the ProTools system PAL 25fps? Was it digitized from a tape or exported from FCP at 25fps? If it was, thats why it syncs up there. Are they working in a PAL 25fps session or a 23.98 session?
Sounds like the audio needs to be slowed down to sync up with 23.98 video.
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Check the field order in all the sequences.
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Agreed. Its something different than an uprez. My point is that so is cross-conversion.
In both instances you are changing the video considerably, but it is not an up-rez simply because the frame size has a greater number of pixels in it.