Rafael Amador
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[Davide Marchesi] “Would it be possible to slightly speed up the footage after conforming it? I feel that it’d just be a big mess…”
Right.
You will mess everything and you won’t achieve the main objective of conforming, that is to not process the footage.
As Nick says, retime the p25 to p23,98 in Compressor and avoid audio syncs issues.
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[Matt Scherrah] ” I am thinking that the client is comparing the compressed DVD quality with the RAW footage she gave me.”
Then the problem might be on the MPEG-2 compression.
If the H264/Prores conversion is good, and the MPEG-2 cmpression too, you can get a very good picture on the DVD.
Of course, never as the original.
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Just to add something: Do it on duplicated clips, because you have them conformed, you can’t go back to normal speed (48fps(.
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A plain transcoding to Prores shouldn’t produce any picture degradation.
I don’t know what to recommend you beside trying other option for transcoding: MPGStreamclip, 5DtoRGB,..
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[Matt Scherrah] “The ProRes is much more muddied and soft than the original file. “
Where are you seen that?
On FC’s Canvas set at 100% and full quality playback/
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[Jona Taylor] ” once everything is converted to Prores which will take a few weeks.”
No need to convert the XDCAM stuff. Will work well on a Prores sequence.[Jona Taylor] “However, if ever there was a time to move to a newer system it is now and I am considering a new Macbook Pro and learning Premiere Pro 6.”
If you edit in Premier Pro you don’t need to convert the footage.About the quality on Premier exporting, I can’t advice you. I don’t use it.
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[Davide Marchesi] ” I was actually going to do a multiclip thus it seems that I’d better use Compresor for this. However, I am not really concerned about altering sound as I have a separate audio file I will synch to all my footage.”
Wait, wait!!
If you intend to sync audio with files that have been conformed, the audio will end up slipping out of sync because video won’t be playing anymore at the original speed.
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No possible.
In List view you don’t get real thumbnail, and the only you can do is increasing text size.
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[Nick Meyers] “Rafael, the “Rate Conversion: Fast (Nearest Frame)” option,
does that just drop or repeat frames to make up the difference?
simply dropping the shot into a miss=matched FCP timeline will do the same thing.”
No if you set “Set duration” other than 100%.
If you set:
– 24@25
– 23,98@24
– etc
you do not drop, don’t add any frame, you get a plain Conforming of the file.
rafael