[Marcie Maute]

Oh forgot to mention that we converted the footage to Apple Pro Res 422 HQ to make it friendlier in Final Cut pro. So I know its not h264 thats slowing it down.

[Marcie Maute]

Thats exactly what I have been attempting to do, it takes forever. But at least I have been able to isolate certain areas in order to manually color correct them.

What do you mean by clipped?

thanks for your help!

[Marcie Maute]

Thanks for your help. However, when I pull my image in, its a jpeg, the image is in there center and the background is black. So when I apply the image and resize it, the only thing that appears after tracking is an odd shaped black form. Any suggestions? The only thing I can think is to pull it into photoshop and make non background and export it from there.

Also quick question, I am working with .mov files pro res 422 hq that I have ama linked into avid. Once I am done rendering my effect, how do I export the clip? I have tried “same as source” but I keep getting an error message that says “no valid resolution found to be exported same as source”.

My project is set up as 16:9 HD 1080i 1920×1080 which didn’t give me any issues in FCP.

Thanks for your help!

[Marcie Maute]

Shane,

We shot 1080p, are editing in 1080i, and would like to get our finalized product back to 1080p. We have a showing scheduled in a theater and would like to show a bluray copy of the film but also need to have a nonbluray copy for film festivals that we are entering.
At this point I have gone from h264 to pro res 422 hq and am linking ama files in order to finish the cut in avid. I am unsure how to restore the resolution of the film once we are ready to export from avid.

You said that 422 hq is a great choice if my final product is bluray and that barely anything was lost when converted from h264- which is great to hear. Can I ask how to get my film from being linked ama in avid at pro res 422 hq to bluray status?

Thanks

[Marcie Maute]

Thanks for your help guys.
I think I understand the codec converting process and what I should have done verses what I did do.
I am lucky that I didn’t run into many problems, I have been researching a lot more now that I am a member on this forum. Besides the constant rendering and space being used, I didn’t run into anything fatal.
I guess I mis-spoke when I said Blu Ray, I meant HD 1080. I just wanted to ensure that I didn’t affect the overall product by converting it.
Its good to know that I didn’t loose much quality converting to pro res 422 hq and that I can now remain in this codec for the rest of my post production adventures.

Thanks for your help!!!

-Marcie

ps any recommendations for finalizing the process after I go into Avid to add the finishing touches?

[Marcie Maute]

Shane, thanks for your response. Color accepted and rendered it out just fine. The color corrected version is now sitting in FCP waiting for me to export it and import it into AMC. I rendered it out of Color as proRes 422 HQ – so you said its no longer h264. If thats the case, why in the world would anyone convert all of their footage before putting it into FCP if you could just export it out of final cut in the desired codec?

Is ProRes 422 HQ the highest quality I can get out of my footage? I shot in blurray so obviously I want to have my final product at the highest quality possible. Since I lost quality going from h264 to prores 422 hq- can I get that quality back in the end?

And to answer you’re question of where we are going after making our stop in Avid for paint and motion tracking, I am, again, having an educational gap. At that point, all video will be done, so we will need to get the video and audio together in order to finalize the film.

again, thanks for your help!
Marcie