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Michael Macinnis
March 25, 2011 at 9:47 pm in reply to: .M2TS to ProRes 422 conversion in Toast causing Gamma shift

I just tried Eddie’s suggestion and it didn’t seem to resolve the issue. The converted ProRes 422 still came out slightly darker than the original. This has got me to thinking of the possibility that the original might not be displaying properly. I’m using a screen capture from VLC of the original and a screen capture from Quicktime of the ProRes file and comparing the two in Photoshop. VLC is the only thing on my system that I know of that will play the .m2ts file, so could the problem be with VLC not displaying the proper gamma?
Michael Macinnis
March 25, 2011 at 6:38 pm in reply to: .M2TS to ProRes 422 conversion in Toast causing Gamma shift

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I should note that I am not on Snow Leopard, just Leopard version 10.5.8. My version of FCP is 7.0.2 and my version of QuickTime is QT Pro 7.6.6 (1632). I will try Eddie’s suggestion to see if it makes a difference. Also, Rafael, you mentioned that Toast should not be used to convert such a file. Do you have any recommendations on what would be a better program to convert the .m2ts file to a ProRes 422 .mov?

Michael
Michael Macinnis
March 17, 2011 at 7:41 pm in reply to: ProRes 422 render slightly lowers brightness

I’m on 10.5.8
Michael Macinnis
March 16, 2011 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Most practical method to convert from ProRes to AVCHD

Thanks for the reply guys. I’ve give those a try.
Michael Macinnis
March 16, 2011 at 3:51 am in reply to: Most practical method to convert from ProRes to AVCHD

Sorry, it will be burned to a Blu Ray disc.
Michael Macinnis
March 16, 2011 at 3:27 am in reply to: Most practical method to convert from ProRes to AVCHD

I want to convert/render my FCP project to an AVCHD file (such as .m2ts or .mkv). I know that FCP can’t do AVCHD natively so I’m looking for the best method to get from point A (my FCP edit) to point B (the final AVCHD) while maintaining the quality as much as possible.
Michael Macinnis
December 29, 2010 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Color change at beginning of video transition

I will give that a try, thank you.

In regards to rendering with a different codec, is it possible for me to maintain all my cuts in FCP and simply swap the footage with the newly rendered source? For example, the original source is DVD and has been converted to AIC using MPEG Streamclip. If I were to create a new .MOV file with a different codec, can I simply swap that with the .MOV file in FCP to maintain all my cuts? The files would be the exact same length and frame count, just different codecs.

Also, what would be the best codec and settings to use to maintain the quality of the DVD source?

Thanks.

Michael
Michael Macinnis
December 28, 2010 at 7:44 pm in reply to: Color change at beginning of video transition

Thanks for the reply Rafael. I’ve changed the sequence to always render in RGB in the Video Processing options and that seems to fix the issue. My question now is, how will this affect the overall output? As mentioned, I’m using source files with the Apple Intermediate Codec which I’m guessing is a YUV based codec based on the fact that the sequence settings defaulted to that when I imported the first clip. So when I render the entire thing as RGB, will that have any negative affects on the output? Thanks.

Michael