[Jon Hensen]

Job and Pat thank you.

DNx it is. I just spoke with the DP and they baked in a LUT for the footage. Will I need to do anything additionally during transcode to make sure that information is retained? Will the transition through offline to online pose any problems for this?

In a perfect world I’d like to do everything within MC. Possible? Probable? Advised?

Thanks!

[Jon Hensen]

Thanks for your help, Shane. I eventually got files to take, just made a couple more generations prior than I would of liked to. My source was exclusively GoPro so the generations didn’t pose a serious quality issue. I eventually made Hi-Res H264s and they came in fine. Kinda quirky.

I’ll keep tweaking my approach and see what works best and get back.

[Jon Hensen]

Yea conformed in Cinema tools. It’s a ProRes 23.98 file.

[Jon Hensen]

Would you have any idea why AVID would continuously crash when I try to transcode a conformed file? In this case my 120fps ProRes conformed to 23.98.

I’m in a 23.98 hi res project. Trying to transcode DNxHD 175.

Is there a work around here?

[Jon Hensen]

Thanks, Shane.

This might do the trick!

[Jon Hensen]

Thanks, Craig. It’s becoming much clearer and I’m looking into x264 to possibly save the day here.

For clarity’s sake, here’s a screenshot of the video with AVC coding. The result is quite impressive for the file size. It was created on PC using Camtasia Studio 8. What do you think is the best way to achieve this result using a MAC platform?

[Jon Hensen]

This is great, Alan. Thanks!

I may come back with a follow up on workflow/procedure after some research.

[Jon Hensen]

From my understanding, you’re right in the sense that the terminology is relatively ambiguous, but there is in fact a delineation between AVC and H.264. The main difference being file size.

We have had success using software like Camtasia Studio 8 on PC to encode AVC codec MP4s. When using the same encoding specs using something like MPEG streamclip, while having the only difference be the strict H.264 codec, file size is in some cases triple.

I am wondering if there is a way to access and use this particular AVC codec in a MAC setting. Or adversely if there is more sophisticated way of working with H.264 to achieve tiny (I mean real tiny!) file sizes and exceptional quality.

For context….
1.) We have created one 30min 1080p Apple ProRes native quicktime. (~16GB)
2.) From there we’ve encoded that file to a 640×360 H.264 .MOV (~250mb)
3.) From there we’ve had to use Camtasia Studio 8 on PC to make a .MP4 with AVC codec (~50mb)

So if anyone has a better way to get from a 16GB full res 1080p .MOV down to a ~50MB friendly MP4, I am more than interested!