[Susi Mason]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you so much. Your instructions are great, very clear. We want to ultimately output the documentary as HD 1080p, 24fps to HD-Cam (for festivals) and DigiBeta master (for TV broadcast), and for DVD reproduction. With that in mind, a few more questions come to mind after receiving your reply and talking to a couple of filmmakers about multi-format FCP editing for output to.

1)In order to avoid creating the bulkier files that ProRes will create, can we just conform all of our footage to 23.98 fps and skip the ProRes 422 conforming?

2)Or can we conform only our native HD footage to ProRes, but keep the other source formats non-ProRes at 23.98 fps?

3)In the ProRes 422 timeline, can we import footage that is not ProRes without having to render edits? (We would like all of the individual formats to show in the timeline in their original aspect ratio.)

4)Is there any reason one could argue that we should not go back and conform everything to ProRes?

I want to use best practices workflow here, and really appreciate your help. Thanks again.