Rafael Amador
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[Shane Ross] “My workflow might not work with the T4i…too new of a camera. “
No L&T, Shane?
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PNG allows to export as Interlaced, so when you export your still sequence, make sure you keep them as “Upper “.
The animation will look less floyd than the video.
The same than if you were putting a p25 animation on top of a i25 movie.[Michael Freedman] “If I receive the sequences back as progressive but need to export the final edit as interlaced, how can I achieve this?”
You won’t receive the stills as Progressive.
You will receive the same stills that you sent with the original interlacing on.
If you import them to FC or AE, make sure that you check them as Interlaced (Upper) and you edit them on an Interlaced sequence.
When you export you will get an interlaced movie (i25)[Michael Freedman] “Also, will all this back and forth effect the interlaced live action footage that is comped into the animations?”
No if you do as I said and if you keep consistent the field order.
There is no de-interlacing nowhere.
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Hi Mark,
That camera records on a codec that is not supported by FC.
You will need to convert the footage to Prores.
For better info:
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
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q[brian paterson] “So having changed the sequence settings to pro res, how do I actually re-render the timeline and have the new render files go to the other external hard drive with more space on.)
Normally i would select the drive, scratch disc and render folder etc at the log and transfer stage but how do I change this afterwards.?”
You still can select a new scratch disk and disable the old one.
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[brian paterson] “As a larger file will need more compression to fit on a standard DVD and more compression means less quality “
No.
Your concept is wrong.
The data rate you chose when making the DVD will be applied to whatever the source.
The better the source, the better the resulting MPEG-2.
You will get a better picture from a 10b Unc or Prores file than from a DV source.[brian paterson] “The original file was 108 gigabytes and the new one would be 168 gigabytes. However with the ‘Render in high Precision YUV’ turned on as you suggest the file size is 198 gigabytes.”
That’s OK.
If you do not render in High Precision you are really getting a Prores file with 8b content.[brian paterson] “It is going to take 18 hours to render in high precision.
I tried doing a 1 minute test late last night which took nearly an hour for each version and really had to struggle to see any difference.”If you want to get the best possible quality from your means, you have to fallow the best possible workflows and those normally takes longer because they imply more calculations.
The key is not to add further compression during the postproduction. You start with an already very compressed source (EX-1). Treat it the best you can.
Is possible that you don’t see in your computer the difference between the EX-1 and the Prores with the two different render options (8b and 10b YUV), but the difference is there, and may arise when you downscale the picture and compress the final MPEG-2.
Your main problem is that you have to put 3 hours of movie on a DVD and that, with Compressor, is difficult to achieve it with good quality.[brian paterson] “In the end I just went for the full render as you suggest but now I am unsure if that will ultimately produce the best finished product.”
At least you are sure that you can’t put out nothing better from FC, and that with the tools you have you can’t do nothing better.
At least that’s the way I work.
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Hi Luke,
On the FCPX or not: The debate” forum there is a lot of info about.
You can start by this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/45754#45915
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I would ask on the Broadcasting Forum:
https://forums.creativecow.net/broadcasting
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Change your sequence codec by Prores and export.
For better quality (guess you have effects and graphics), set as well “Render in High Precision”.
It will takes longer, but its worth.
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You can use PhotoJPEG.
Lowering the quality slid you will reduce the file size.
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Not sure if this could be the issue, but there is a file size limit due to the media format (FAT-32) where supposedly the files will be wrote.
If the resulting file will be bigger than 4GB, it won’t be export.
rafael