Rob Grauert
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With DVCPro HD, you don’t need to transcode your footage to ProRes to edit.
Simply change your Timeline Compressor to ProRes when you are done cutting and render out a final Quicktime, which will be in the ProRes codec.
The other time when you want to use ProRes is in Color. This workflow is: edit DVCPro HD footage in a DVCPro HD timeline, File > Send To Color > Do your color grade > Render out as ProRes.
So as you can see, the only time you really need to go to ProRes is when you render out.
No need for ProRes HQ either. Regular ProRes is fine since your original source is 8-bit.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Oooh. That makes sense. The manual doesn’t specify that this option is for 23.98 footage and timelines only.
Well thanks for clarifying.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Shane,
I could be wrong, but I think if you are going out to a NTSC or PAL firewire device, FCP does add the correct pulldown:
I know you’re into AJA and Matrox. Do their products not properly add pulldown if you output to something like BetaSP or HDCam?
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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If you download FCS remover, it will take care of removing all the necessary files.
There are options to remove everything from FCS or individual applications.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Thanks Shane.
I’m surprised the reverse telecine only works with 24pA. I thought it was for regular 24p since you can removed advanced pull-down in FCP.
Anyway, thank you.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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I just read this on the Ken Stone Blog:
“When shooting in 24p Normal, the camera is adding normal standard 3:2 pulldown to the video, which results in 24p footage designed to work with any non-linear editing suite and it will play back and look good directly to any NTSC monitor. You can use 24p Normal footage just like normal video from any DV camera, and everything will work fine, but obviously, the footage will have a film look to it. If you’re just going straight back to NTSC video tape, then using 24p Normal is the simplest, easiest workflow. No special treatment of the footage is needed and you really can just edit as normal.”
So does this mean I don’t even have to remove the pull-down? I can just editing this footage in a 29.97 timeline? We are going back out to NTSC tape.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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1. I believe the more professional way of handling it is logging clips and then doing a batch capture.
2. Sorry, I don’t know because I usually don’t capture tape the way you are describing. Is your timecode breaking? If it is, that is probably why it is create many new clips.
If your timecode isn’t breaking, try marking an in point at the beginning of the tape, and out point at the end, log the clip, and then capture it.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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You have to use MPEG-2. DVD players don’t support playback of ProRes.
Export an FCP reference file of your timeline (File > Export > Quicktime Movie). No need to make the file self-contained if you are editing and encoding to MPEG on the same Mac.
Next, bring that file into Compressor and drop the “Best 90 minute DVD” settings onto your file. This should create 2 files in the end. An audio file (.ac3) and the video file.
You’ll want to adjust your settings in the inspector window. There’s too much there for me to explain. It’s be easier if you read the manual.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Thanks Gary,
Everything you have mentioned I have understood for a while. I think I was just confused because I thought there was more to it since a lot of people seemed to have been confused at least at one point in time.
Thanks again!
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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