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For the record, I have not had any problems cutting 25fps ProRes 422 1920 x 1080 off FW 800 drives. With drives so cheap, for me I see no point in doing anything but making the originals HD ProRes422 and cutting with those files.
DV is the only PAL codec that is lower field and that is a real nuisance in an offline/online workflow. Just avoid it and enjoy watching decent HD pics when you edit. It will help particularly spotting soft focus which is an issue with a large pickup camera like the 5D. In DV you will not see something that is just off focus.
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You double transcoded. Hd > DV (an awful SD codec)> H264. Going straight from HD > 720 x 480 H264 would look much cleaner.
DV will cause color bleed and blocking artifacts which just get worse when you then transcode that and crunch it down some more.
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The repeated mantra in these common conversion threads is that good hardware conversion through a Teranex or similar high end converter is the ticket. All the software options are incredibly slow and second best when they do their best.
If you use software conversion on the rushes, you might then selectively redo the final clips with the Teranex and drop them into the final edit.
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Your version of Compressor is too old for mpeg2 transport stream creation.
I would suggest you find someone who can do this for you from your 6 gig quicktime. That size indicates it is a DV codec file which is probably what your original sequence was.Drop it onto a hard drive and find a friend with either a later version of Compressor or stand alone mpeg2 software.
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There is no bug, just operator error. When you export from AE you must export with fields, upper. Doesn’t matter if the original material is progressive, it still needs to be in an interlaced quicktime if it is going to be put into an interlaced sequence in FCP which is obviously what is happening.AE can do this. I rant and rave at graphics people constantly until they get that setting right. When they do it works perfectly. I am nearly always working in 1920 x 1080 50i
The reason 720 seems OK is that it is a progressive sequence in FCP. If you want to throw away resolution and work in 720 instead of getting the AE export right, then that is one option.
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Broadcast safe is not reliable after render. Search this forum as there are a few better ways to make you clips broadcast safe for both levels and Chroma.
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Yes of course you lose resolution. You are framing a 16:9 image from a 4:3 so to get the edges correct without distorting the image, you will have to zoom in and frame for headroom.
In the Motion tab, you have adjustment for centering the image. You can also drag the image with wireframe enabled.basically you don’t have room to pan, just up down adjustment. You can also keyframe the center values to do mini tilts within a shot.
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Everything is perfectly normal. Your 4:3 footage is pillar boxed in the 16:9 frame.
Next stage is to zoom up the scale to 133 and then pan/scan your image to create a 16:9 framing within your 4:3 picture.
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Well actually FCP will change a sequence setting if you drop the first clip into a sequence and the settings don’t match.
Otherwise FCP can’t assume that a sequence should change as many of us have to have mixed footage with different aspects and codecs in the one timeline.
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If I understand the question correctly you want to know if you can capture the DVD image with different subtitles to bring it into FCP.
Ripping won’t help as it won’t display the subtitles. You could capture the image in via an I/O card with analog inputs directly from the DVD player, setting log & capture to uncontrolled device.