[Ray Herman]

Thanks for the help, Kevin.

I converted the ProRes clip within QT Pro (don’t have access to CS3 anymore) using the Photo-Jpeg codec and all seems fine now.

[Ray Herman]

Thanks for the reply.

The QT ProRes file came from another editor, who exported his final sequence from I-dont-know-what-version-of-FCP, but it worked fine in CS3 for me. He also made me an H.264 export, which I’ve also tried replacing the corrputed file with, but to no success…

I don’t see where the 64-bit version equation comes into play, care to elaborate?

I’ll try in the meantime to convert the ProRess file to something else and see if I have better luck.

[Ray Herman]

Excellent. Thanks for all your help, guys.

[Ray Herman]

Interesting, Thanks for the link!

Well I don’t know if this is standard FCP procedure or not, but I went ahead and transcoded all my footage into ProRes in Compressor, and relinked the media files manually in FCP and everything seemed pretty flawless and hassle-free! Even though the media files are simply links in FCP (as opposed to Avid), the relinking process still managed to remember and locate the specific in and out points in the previous version.

I changed my sequence to ProRes to match my newly reconnected media files, and all looks good… But is it really?

[Ray Herman]

That’s what I was afraid of – that there was no proper way to relink the transcodes after the fact. Thanks for confirming (and good to know for future collaborations!).

And no, unfortunately I do not have access to the original card to re-do a batch capture – I’m pretty much stuck with the h.264 files.

So my only option right now is to follow what Rafael said: change my sequence compressor settings to ProRes and export the full sequence to AE?

[Ray Herman]

Excellent. Thanks again, Paul.

I’ll test it out and get back to you if ever I run into any issues!

[Ray Herman]

So if I understand correctly, I set up a Widescreen Square Pixels comp at 1024×576 and render version 1 out for client as 16:9 broadcast.

For the 4:3 version, I create a PAL D1/DV 720×576 comp (or is a D1 Square Pixels 768×576?), add my 16:9 comp in there, scale down roughly to about 70-75%, and that automatically creates my “letterboxes”.

Is that the correct workflow?

[Ray Herman]

Thanks for replying, Paul.

Quick question: When you say you work in a widescreen comp, do you mean the actual Widescreen setting 720×576 or the Widescreen Square Pixels 1024×576 comp setting? Cuz I’m not seeing a proper “widescreen” format if I just use the standard one, it pretty much looks like a 4:3 format to me…