[Timothy Anderson]

Ah – ok – wow yeah that makes sense – I suspected there was some metadata darkness going on –

Great – trying everything now and will do a test DCP…

THANK YOU.

[Timothy Anderson]

Thanks so much everybody – I am juts going to give them the DVCPRO HD QT and they can make any sequence they may need to do so!

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Yeah I know – my 8GB ram MacBook is actually zipping right along even when the FCP is ‘stuck’ – I am writing everything over FW 800 to a RAID – performance shouldn’t be an issue and also wouldn’t explain the export progress bar restart to 0. Slow progress would be totally acceptable – it’s just that progress halts/corrupts at that frame.

[Timothy Anderson]

Hey Chris –

Maybe a corrupt file but not the renders – the sequence itself is a fully contained, rendered cut of the film – one clip.

Still stuck….

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hi Rafael –

Yes, I am trying to export a .TIFF sequence of a fully rendered DVCPRO HD 1080p 23.98fps – I can’t do it in batch because the post house has specified all of the .TIFFs need to be in one folder, in consecutive, uniform file order – batches doesn’t allow for that due to the restart of the frame numbering system for each batch.

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Thanks Andrew …

Your end of things is very interesting to me and I don’t really know much about it.

So, to sum things up – in my case does the post house’s ability to color grade/correct improve or increase if they receive an uncompressed QT from me or in this case does it matter given the footage was originally DVCPRO HD? Is it always better to have 24 bit RGB even if it won’t ‘add’ anything per se over what’s already there in the DVCPRO HD…?

Thanks for your time. Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hey Andrew –

Thanks again – I just want to make sure I give them what they need without a doubt –

Quick curiosity – so if going uncompressed wouldn’t necessarily add anything to the image/frames for the post house to do their color correction/grading, etc. – what accounts for such a vast difference in file size if the codecs are the same?

Does the 24 bit RGB just add redundant information to the file? Is this additional data relevant to the post image process?

Thanks! Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hi Andrew –

Thanks so much for the response and the help. The original daily quicktimes were in DVCPRO HD (1080p30) which is why I selected that setting in sequence settings under ‘compressor’ type. However the color profile for each clip is HD (1-1-1) whereas as the uncompressed are 24 bit RGB as previously mentioned.

So my question is, since a simple export under ‘current settings’ would be in DVCPRO HD (and thus I wouldn’t be changing the codec) can I just deliver that instead of an uncompressed version? Or, is the 24 bit RGB going to add something that wouldn’t otherwise be there?

The reason I ask is a. for quality and b. the difference is a 70 GB QT versus a 450 GB QT …

Thanks again!

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hi Gary –

Thanks for the response. So, to confirm, you are saying that Mistika can grade and correct off of the DVCPro HD files, so all I would need to give them is my master QuickTime of the film at full quality export with any video transitions taken out (so they have all of the frames clean) and we should be good?

Will this result in the same level of quality in the results?

No TIFFs, .dpx, etc…?

THANKS for the info in advance!

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hmm, ok –

That’s a good idea – will do. Although upon my first test, the two seem to be identical in this case because the titles are so simple I surmise. Thanks for the tip though…

Also, just to clarify, if I am going to export as a .tiff sequence, this will work just fine, right? In other words, I don’t have to locate GlueTools to do .dpx – the quality will be the same?

Thanks!
Tim