[Justin Peer]

Righto, here’s what is set, all of which is default settings, several of which are greyed out.

Summary
Name: Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
Description: Apple ProRes 422 for lower bit rate, good quality applications with audio pass-through. Settings based off the source resolution and frame rate
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 1.79 GB
Audio: multi-track passthrough
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1280 x 720
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 59.96
Frame Controls: Off
Codec Type: Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 0

Frame controls are off and by default have the following settings.

Encoder settings

File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 1.79 GB
Audio: multi-track passthrough
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1280 x 720
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 59.96
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 0

In the filters section, no boxes are ticked.

The ultimate aim of this is to be able to import the footage into FCP and edit without sacrificing too much quality, I’m shooting at 720p, 60fps, and then be able to edit and output at 720p. The 60fps is to allow me to slow down footage with twixtor or similar.

Hope this helps, thanks.

[Justin Peer]

Hi Richard, I’ll explain as best I can. I’ve not changed any preferences from standard, I open compressor and select the file I want to convert then drag it to the box on the compressor window. I then select the Apple Pro Res 422 LT codec from the settings list and drag it into the selection window. I then select ‘source’ or other destination and drag that to the blue bar in the selection window, giving me the following:

Sometimes I’ll batch run a few files but these are the settings I use. It seems to take 10 times as long as using mpeg streamclip to produce the same output files.

Thanks for your help.

[Justin Peer]

Because that’s what was recommended on the gopro forums, so I started off using that. As I said, I’m very new to final cut studio and still figuring out what the different bits do. I’ll do a test with compressor and see if I get the same effects, thanks for suggesting it.