[Nate Abraham]

Hey Jason,

Thanks for noting that. I haven’t looked into the Matrox product line but I’m just looking to be as mobile as I can and still compress while I travel instead of waiting to get back to the office.

That sounds pretty cool to have a hardware based accelerator. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks!

Nate

[Nate Abraham]

Sorry I meant can that be compressed into h.264 854×480 standard setting…

How could I forget to include what I wanted to compress the original footage to?

Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts at all that’d be great.

Huge thanks!

Nate

[Nate Abraham]

Hi Nick,

Well, HD aspect ratio…I have been maintaining an HD workflow at the request of my boss (all 5DMKII footage) but mainly uploading to the web for the client to view. Thus we are going from 1920×1080 to 854×480 if that makes sense.

But are you asking to see if I can edit in standard def thus converting the files from the 5dmkII to standard def in the beginning then edit the converted footage as opposed to the prores?

Thanks for your help!!
Nate

[Nate Abraham]

Thanks Rafael. Yea, that makes sense. I really appreciate your help.

[Nate Abraham]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks for the advice. I get the feeling ProRes is the only way to go. I’m going to have to find/make/fight for space along the way. Dealing with 5dmkii footage is tricky I suppose…something to be learned.

I have a feeling that a few extra HDs are going to be needed…

And I have no idea why there is a keyframe every 10,000 frames…they just said I should do it that way. I’ve been out of the game for so long I can’t really offer a reason not to. Everytime I would do it the way I used to it looks very different…

So anyway, I’ll give auto a try…see if it makes the file size small but maintains the quality…

THANKS! It’s good to be editing again, I am so thankful to be able to have the community like the cow again to help me out.

Thanks Again
Nate

[Nate Abraham]

Hey Joel,

Thanks for getting back to me, I really appreciate it! I was afraid you’d say that. I did a few tests and while the ProRes files were quicker/better, they were also *much* bigger. Going from a couple of hundred megs to gigs. I suppose that means i’m going to have to fight for the drive space.

If I can’t get it, is the way I’m going about it going to work all-be-it slow?

I trust you, go ProRes but I don’t know if I can have that much drive space. We only have 2 TB on our server 🙁

Thanks for the note about QT. I thought you might be able to do that…I couldn’t remember though. When I make the reference movie do I then do the final encoding though QT or Compressor?

Thanks again for getting back to me!!

…my head is throbbing from relearning everything.

Nate