Rafael Amador
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I’ve never worked with that stuff, but what i see is that in the upper still (Edit Preset), you have selected “1920 x 1080” (QT Wrapper), which is HD but not 2K.
I guess you should set there 2K.
rafael -
Hi Morgan,
You don’t need to export nothing.
When you run L&T the files are rewrapped as QT.
That what you have to give to the “clients”.
However you won’t be able to put much stuff on a single DVD.
Just for to 5 minutes if they have been shooting DVCPro100 and some 15/20 minutes if they have been shooting DV.
rafael -
If you are looking for just a second monitor to work more comfortable with your MBP, any good computer monitor will be fine.
I don’t recommend you a TV because TVs has less definition than computer screens.
If you are looking for a monitor for Color Grading, then you will need a pro monitor and that can only be plugged to your mac by mean of an IO card. like a Matrox, AJA or BlackMagic.
So if what you are looking for is just more space, get your self a computer monitor.
I think the Dell-U24 still being the best choice.
rafael -
[Mark Fanjoy] “Should I also take this extra step to convert the conformed slow mo clips (still at their original 1280×720) to 1920×1080, which is the size of my other clips and the timeline?
Is this additional step just to avoid the need to render, or is it continuing to preserve quality?”
Compressor makes a better upscaling than FC, so you will get better quality resizing the 720p23,98 to 1080p23,98 by mean of compressor than just dropping it of FC’s time-line and tetting FC doing the job.
You need to set “Frame Control: ON” and resize BEST.
rafael -
[Mark Fanjoy] “I will need to find some local support with Cinema Tools, as I am not familiar, but now I have a direction to preserve that media quality.”
CinemaTools is very easy to use.
You can not run it directly on your Canon footage because is an GOP format (MPEG_2), and CinemaTools only works on Intraframe stuff. This is why you need to convert first the clips to Prores.
Once you have the Prores files just open then in CinemaTools (Open Clip) and and click the “Conform” button; then select 23,98 fps.
That changes the time-base of the clip without further processing.
rafael -
Hi Mark,
When you put 59,94 fps stuff on a 23,98 fps sequence, first, frames are dropped (60% of the original frames), then your speed changes are applied.
So, that is not the best way to get a good slow motion from the 59,94 stuff.You need to convert the 59,94 stuff to Prores, and then use CinemaTools to conform that footage to 23,98 fps.
You will get the footage slow down to a 40% speed and without any picture processing, so keeping the original quality.
Then you can use that footage on the 23,98 sequence and speed it up or slow it down further.
rafael -
[David Buckner] “If I wanted to use the biggest frame size possible, would I downconvert it to NTSC-DV? Is there anyway to capture the footage but not have it down convert, and it still be in 4:3?”
I don’t think so.
The camera can puts out through FW only standard sizes (HDV or DV), and FC is able to capture through FW only the same standards.
Anyway, you can try the HDV capture preset and see if its works.
rafael -
[Natalie Conaway] “I’m fairly new to video editing and have edited a project that the client wants submitted as an uncompressed mpg. Would I need to export from Final Cut as an .mov file (I have FCP 7) and then convert to mpg?”
Yes, but you need then to ask them you which kind of “mpg” they want and what for.
Normally you can do it with Compressor.[Natalie Conaway] “Also, I made the mistake of putting all the media files on my computer—no external drive—and when I export to .mov, it’s not playing back smoothly. Is there an easy way to move my files to an external drive and not have to reedit? I already spent a lot of time color-correcting in Color and rendering.”
The easiest way is that you use Media Manager, selecting the “Media; Copy” option, and in “Media Destination”, you chose your external HD.
A new project will be created including only the media you have used on your sequence.
rafael -
Right.
On both cases the white bar is 100% (R=G=B= 1).
Pure Luma. No Chroma.
If you have a look to the Vectorscope, any white/gray will show up as a single dot in the center.
It will have a luma value (Y), but U=V= 0. So Chroma = 0.
rafael -
Prores (1280×720) is around 100Mbps, so at 3Mbps upload speed, would take 33,3 seconds to upload one second of the movie.
Joe’s clip is 90 seconds. so that would take 90 x 33,3 seconds = 2.997 seconds to be uploaded.
That means 49 minutes and 57 seconds.YouTube recompress everything you upload, but the better the source, the better the quality when streaming.
I guess that for showing a clip to your friends is not worth an almost one hour upload, but if you are making money with your YouTube videos probably is worth.With my 500 Kbps (1Mbps late at night) I can not dream on uploading Prores.
rafael