[Scott Russell]

Grading on a 30″ HD Cinema display, calibrated, with an NTSC monitor attached via firewire deck for extra check.

Anyone know of file size restriction for FCP export? There’s not that 2GB restriction on external hard disks they used to have, is there?

[Scott Russell]

Thanks, Neil.

I don’t have a BlackMagic card, or I would have tried to take my tower down to the post house, and lay off straight from FCP.

The FCP is ProRes, which doesn’t look that great on the timeline, especially for the title sequences, but when I export a TIFF from that, it’s apparently looking directly at the .r3d files, and it looks great. So if I render a Quicktime from the FCP timeline, I’m assuming it will do the same? In that case, which codec would you suggest? I was thinking either animation or uncompressed 10-bit. But those are both bound to be really big files, and take a while to render. Fine as long as they work. And if I do that, will I need to take it back to color for DPX? I supposed I could do that from After Effects, too. But couldn’t Nitris ingest either of those formats?