Neil Patience
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One other thing to consider is that although you need H264 for your final output you will have problems if you edit with the H264 footage from the cameras without first transcoding to ProRes.
Transcode the camera footage to ProRes LT before you start your edit. Otherwise you will almost certainly have problems trying to edit that in FCP7.
There are many posts here with tails of woe from people who try to edit the H264 files directly.best wishes
Neil
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The Gemini does indeed record DPX files.
Color does offer native support for DPX files – there is a workflow for DPX listed in the Color manual. You can render out ProRes files from Color.
Another alternative is to use Glue Tools who make a plug-in that allows you to work with DPX files .
https://www.gluetools.com/products_dpx.html I think its about $400There may be other alternatives I am sure someone will chime in with more knowledge.
best wishes
Neil
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You are correct in that your sequence settings need to match your clip settings to avoid the need to render everything.
However as has been posted here on many threads H264 is not an editing format. FCP7 does not handle it very well and your system will quickly choke or cause you all kinds of hassle if you try to cut using this.
You need to first transcode it to ProRes. you can use Compressor or Mpeg Streamclip among other things to do this. Make sure you retain the frame size, frame rate and Audio sample rate. I would say Pro Res LT was fine for the Bloggie.
Once you have a ProRes LT file simply import it into FCP and drop a clip onto a new sequence.
FCP should ask you if you want your sequence settings to match your source clip. Say Yes.
You then don’t need to set anything else up as your sequence and source will match. You should not have to further render unless you apply FX of course.Hope that helps
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Neil
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No Xvid is not the way to go – I think its an MPEG 4 based codec which again is a poor choice for editing.
As Sandeep says, ProRes is the best option and ProRes LT should be fine for H264 files.
Editing in any non frame based codec is going to cause you issues.best wishes
Neil
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I needed a similar BluRay option to you although only needed menus for 3 or 4 choices.
I tried Toast and had quite a few issues burning disks so gave up with that.
I bought CS5.5 a while ago now and Encore has been fine for my needs.
I am reasonably proficient with DVD Studio Pro and found I could apply much of what I knew to Encore.
I use a Samsung SE 506 external drive to burn my disks which has been great. Its cheap to buy and works well, not the fastest out there but for the money a great little drive.best wishes
Neil
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If you have lost your settings then just reset the windows into the arrangement that you are used to.
Once you are happy with the layout go to “Window” drop down, select “Arrange” and save window layout.
Your custom setting will then appear in the drop down list.best wishes
Neil
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It sounds like you are exporting to a PC formatted drive and it is creating spanned files.
This happens because of the file size limit on Fat 32 formatted drives. Check out the format of the drive.
If you export to a Mac formatted drive you should get a single file.best wishes
Neil
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I would go ProRes, 422 is fine as the C300 is 8 bit. As long as you have a decent amount of fast external storage you shouldn’t need to go the proxy route. If its a commercial spot then I assume you wont have a huge amount of rushes and the transcode is pretty fast so you should be fine.
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Neil
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Dont use H264 to edit with – its not a frame based codec and will give you all kinds of problems.
As a delivery codec or for your file for final viewing it will be fine. So yes if your happy with the quality go for that.best wishes
Neil
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ProRes HQ is better quality than ProRes LT – on footage from say a DSLR you cannot see the difference. If you can see a difference with your JPEGS then use what is best.
Assuming you are going to use ProRes HQ, at the end of the process you will have a self contained ProRes HQ Quicktime Movie. ProRes HQ requires fairly fast drives to play it back, firewire 800 is a minimum for editing.
So if you were to copy your file onto a USB stick or a DVD as a file and try to play it back directly you may find it stutters. You need to play it back from a hard drive.Yes once you are in the realms of television the rules on picture sizes change slightly as devices like projectors and monitors are expecting fixed size images so anything that does not conform to tv spec is possibly going to get cropped and or distorted.
best wishes
Neil
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