[Michael Gibrall]

John,

I actually gave FFMPEG a try on my PC with the ProRes 422 HQ file, since I was able to demux and remux a DNxHD file successfully. (And free is hard to beat.)

I got it to work.

I have played the file back with a Quicktime Player on both a PC and a Mac without issue, had it imported into Sony Vegas Pro 12 on my PC without a hitch, had it accepted into Adobe CS4 on a MAC (it initially was shown with digital breakup for a split second as the file was first called up, then it went away. It played back normally in Adobe CS4 and I had no trouble jumping back and forth on the file, randomly playing it back on the timeline.)

When using FCP, here’s what it did…

When I selected the file in Finder and said OPEN WITH FCP, it did just that, without a problem, and played back normally.

When I was in FCP and ‘imported’ the file, I got the following notice from FCP:

“The following media files are not optimized for Final Cut Pro.

It is highly recommended that you either recapture the media or use the Media Manager to create new copies of the files to improve their performance for multi-stream playback.”

“The ProRes 422 directory and filename”

That being said, the file played back normally, and I was able to go anywhere I wanted to on the timeline without issue.

Should I worry, or is this just one of those “Hey, he didn’t use FCP to compile this file” things?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael Gibrall]

Wayne, thank you. I successfully encoded using ffmpeg and made a new dnxhd file with the added audio file. It took me a little while to understand the command line commands, but it worked great!

[Michael Gibrall]

Thanks, John.

I am assuming I can use my aiff stereo file, 48khz 24 bit file just fine?

[Michael Gibrall]

Dave:

Thanks for responding.

I found out from someone in another forum that I should be able to do it just fine using Quicktime Pro 7.

Will try soon.

[Michael Gibrall]

Dave:

Thanks for responding.

I found out from someone in another forum that I should be able to do it just fine using Quicktime Pro 7.

Will try soon.

[Michael Gibrall]

Dave:

Thanks for responding.

I found out from someone in another forum that I should be able to do it just fine using Quicktime Pro 7.

Will try soon.

[Michael Gibrall]

Thank you both for the tips. I’ll look into this later.

John, will I be able to use Quicktime Pro 7 to do the remux on a PC? Or would I be restricted to doing it on a Mac, since ProRes is Mac specific?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael Gibrall]

Had a similar situation. Edited a film in Sony Vegas Pro 12. Needed ProRes 422 HQ.

So….

If hard drive space isn’t an issue…render in UNCOMPRESSES QUICKTIME.
My 80 minute film was 700 GB uncompressed.
I ran that through MPEG Streamclip and the ProRes 422 HQ file looks GREAT. No color shifting, either.

Of course, you’ll want plenty of space on a hard drive.

[Michael Gibrall]

Also, what version are you using of Sony? Is it Pro? What version of Windows are you using? 32 or 64 bit version of Sony Vegas? How much RAM do you have?

[Michael Gibrall]

Watch it as it’s rendering and where it normally crashes. It could be it doesn’t like a video or sound file you have in the timeline.