[Niko Kuehnel]

I don’t think Annotation Edit can help me here at all. At least it didn’t look like it when I just tried it.

Have you used it in this specific situation?

[Niko Kuehnel]

Thank you very much, Kate, that is the info I was hoping to get. It’s what I have kinda been thinking but thought I’d get some advice from someone more knowledgable.

By the way, of course by highest quality I meant highest quality, not highest quality for a cell phone. Obviously highest quality to archive and maybe project it. And yeah, down-converting it in Compressor later sounds like the way to go. Maybe converting it into h.264 so I can get a manageable file size to send to film festivals that’s still HD quality as opposed to going to SD DVD?

And for the photos probably their size is the problem. I pretty much just pulled them off my camera which is set to the highest Jpeg quality. So I suppose with a camera like the 7d they would be pretty big. Didn’t realize FCP would have more trouble with these stills than with video, but what you said makes sense.

Thanks for your wisdom.

Niko

[Niko Kuehnel]

hey guys, thanks for all the help,

i have already realized that there would have been a better way to do what i did, but when i saw i could just import the files i shot into fcp i was quite excited to have no kind of capturing time. also i’m doing the rough cut on a 3-year-old macbook and originally figured it’s probably too slow to handle all this hd-material anyway. so i was quite happy when i ended up with only a little jittering. like i said, it’s really not bad at all for only a rough cut.

but i’m really glad to hear there’s a way to transcode from the timeline, so thanks a lot for that.

by the way, of course i made back-ups of my material. i got all my movie files on three different drives, but obviously they’re all in the h.264 codec, not the pro res. so don’t worry too much. i might not have read all the way through the manual, but at least i got my driver’s license before i got behind the wheel.

one last thing i was wondering about though, shane, what did you mean that the HQ pro res codec is too much for this format? so with the smaller pro res codecs there also won’t be much loss in quality?

and yes, i will have a good look at those tutorials. it’s just not always easy to know what problems will come up before you meet them.

thank you guys a lot.

niko