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Michael, this was a very thoughtful post, thank you very much!!!! I know what IM doing tomorrow…
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Tom Morter-Laing
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A few things that might help:
Get on up to snow leopard, it’s a 64bit os which will use your computer more efficiently and help.
Upgrade to FCP7, it’s not 64bit yet but it removed a lot of glitches and out of memory issues.
The difficulty you may have is that the FCS can theoretically only use 4Gb Ram, and the type of Ram you have is a little slower than newer machines. At the moment though, cramming your mac with Ram will help a little, but you won’t notice vast improvements to things like rendering and whathaveyou; that’s more about your processor, which seems fine (again with snow leopard for added performance).We’re all hopeful for FCP 64 bit around feb which will help too!!
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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What software versions? What operating system? What speed of quad core? What computer (eg iMac etc)?
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Tom Morter-Laing
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Yeah you can’t really “add” virtual frames… Not really. Twixtor is best, remember that pros use actual slow mo (200fps and up) cameras for this kind if stuff… Also check out this for awesome use of the twixtor plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ductU-iA8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Tom Morter-Laing
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Can be done, sounds fairly simple but possibly time consuming if you don’t know motion. Unfortunately sometimes playing with stuff like that is the best way- I’d recommend looking at rotorscoping/keyframing objects and movement.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Those AVD files are not movies at that size, so don’t worry about them. The VLC idea is a good one, try that.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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What does it say when you try and open it? How Los are the clips meant to be? How big is the file you were given? May be they gave you a reference file which would be called .mov but wouldn’t open….
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Tom Morter-Laing
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Sorry for the dumb question but it just occurred to me, when you talk of re-rendering, you don’t meant literally when the red bar appears and you render that do you? As in, I’m fully aware of generation degradation but that doesnt happen just by needs rendering does it?
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Tom Morter-Laing
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“l capture and edit in Pro res 422HQ 10bit, finalize edit, can it be exported as a dvcpro HD file to be broadcast on a HD channel that uses DVCPro HD work flows?”
-Well yes, but why on earth capture and edit in 422HQ 10bit??? You shot on HDV, NOTHING you do with make it ‘true’ hd or better quality. HDV is an 8bit codec- by using the above workflow you are only wasting time, effort and dis space. I guess to export it using that specific codec you could still use compressor, just click on the settings button of a preset, or make your own, and set the codec etc.“if l use H.264 for web, whats the average file size to keep it good for broadcast using Streambox as my portal (if you know that software) and if l use compressor you-tube is there better settings to use than this?”
-Depends on the length of the video etc. You need to give more info I think here, but it will be absolutely fine for the web if you use that preset.“I have one question relating to DV if you may know please?”
-Sorry your question here was a little confusing to me, it depends on a lot of factors and to be honest Im not sure what streambox is… hopefully someone else can help here…“we have some presets that we use but quality could be better for transmission if you have any ideas and help l am listing”
_ what are the presets, where is it broadcast, what’s the delivery format etc. ?😀
Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Hi,
So I hope I can help:
When capturing the footage, capture it to Apple Prores 422. Amongst many reasons for this is because it renders faster because it is more efficient with the processors, and is sort of less “lossy” than other codecs. It also has a 422 colour space for any colour corrects or quick grades you may be doing.
After that I would set the sequence settings to the same- Apple Prores 422 as your compressor (or “renderer”). You don’t need Prores 422 because it wont help and will just add massive file sizes, because you’re only using and HDV camera.
For exporting, for the web I would use H.264 because it is both highly compatible with most modern computers, and also keeps very good (HD) quality at very low file sizes. Use the ‘youtube’ preset in Compressor for some good results.As for the output to TV, thats a little different. They should have supplied you with a sheet saying exactly what they want. HDV is not acceptable for a lot of “True” HD channels, because of the bit rate it records at and a few other things, but you would have to talk that through with whichever TV channel is online-ing and broadcasting it because they all have different requirements.
With DVD- its near impossible to keep it HD. You can fit small HD FILES onto a DVD, but then it wont be a proper DVD, simply a data DVD with the files on it (wont play in DVD players). You can trick programmes like Toast into burning short pieces to a higher frame size, to get an “HD DVD’ on a “normal DVD” but this can be, and is often, very problematical (DVD players cant keep up etc). Again, I would recommend using the ‘DVD Best Quality” presets in Compressor to export, then use DVD Studio Pro to burn the actual DVD. They wont be DVD, but they’ll look very good.
Hope some of that was helpful.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.