Rafael Amador
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[Dave Austin] “It seems more straight forward in the tape world – over here everything is delivered “i” regardless of how it was shot.”
Not only over there.
1080 is always delivered as 1080i. Is the standard.
When your stuff is Progressive, then is called PSF (Progressive segmented frame). Frames are streamed field by field as they where Interlaced.
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[Dave Austin] “So, I dropped the edit onto a new timeline with interlaced, upper field first set in the compressor settings in the sequence’s settings. Then I exported.”
Is OK.
The footage will still look Progressive (because is so) but your movie is interlaced as they asked.
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[Jimmy See] “I’m wondering if it’s necessary to choose the Render all YUV material in high-precision YUV or if it doesn’t matter.”
If you have conformed your sequence to the footage (Prores444), by default, the “Render all 10b material in high Precision” should be checked. If not, check it manually your self.
If you are adding stuff that is not 10b/YUV, check “render all…in High Precision”.
Any other option would crunch your Prores stuff to 8b YUV or 8b RGB, and that’s not what you want.
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Well, your HD movie will fit on the frames he told you without need of any black band around.
If he want them, you have to crop the picture to make the sides black bars.If he want a 4 x 3 picture on a 16 x 9 frame with Pillar box, you need the picture to be 480 x 360 on the 640×360 frame.
480 is the 75% of 640, so you have to crop a 25% of the picture. 12.5% at each side.You will have to crop the same if you work with a 854×480 frame.
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That makes no much sense.
When you convert HD to SD, the SD will be 16×9 (640×360, 854×480).
If you put that on a 4×3 window it will result letter-boxed. If you want the picture pillar-boxed you will have to crop the image.
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Yeah, try some Black Diffusion.
As Shane wrote, MB Looks is the best option.
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[Molly Sharp] “I’ve tried downloading the Sony Log and Transfer plug in, but I cannot figure out if that helps once the file is already in the MP4 state. The MP4 was provided by a client, so there is no way to get the native file.”
Are you talking about MP4 coming from XDCAM cameras?
You can’t use L&T without the full card structure.
If you have just the MP4 you need to rebuild the file/folders structure using the SONY Clip Browser. Then you can run L&T/
The other solution is to use Calibrated plugin:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MP4EXImport_Mac.asp
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Nick,
H264 is not supported by FC and you have been lucky that FC haven’t crashed.
Have a look to this to learn how you have to deal with H264&co (Mp4, AVCHD,..) in fc:
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
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You know what you have to do next time.
Now that you have your sequence fully edited, open the Sequence Setting and instead of H264 set Prores.
In the render options, set “Render YUV 8b”, or better, “Render in High Precision YUV”.
Export QT, NO QT CONVERSION.
Then use whatever option (QT, Compressor, MPGStreamclip,..) to make an H262 out of your Prores master.
Set the data rate you want, Multipass and “Key-frames: AUTO”.
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People that advocates for editing on a laptop probably haven’t edited long enough on laptop to understand and suffer the miseries of editing on a laptop.
The kind of “edit-on-a-coffe-shop” that Bob explains on the opening post, is something that you can do now and them. But if you try to do that on a daily base, after a few months you will be visiting your ophthalmologist.
As Andrew says, is not the same “what you can do” and “what you should do”.
rafael