Todd Perchert
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We’re using HDDs. Plan is that we really shouldn’t need to keep much of what we do for over 5 years. But, of course, there’s always that one client… “remember that footage we shot from 8 years ago?”… LOL!
I know a lot of people that disagree, but I’ve had good luck with Seagate drives for quite a few years. For home and work. I think I’ve lost more WD than anything, and have had more Seagates than anything.
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Take a look at Matrox Dual/Triple Head2Go.
https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/digital/
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So you have the magnifier zoom level to 150%? When you change that from 100% to 150%, is that when the text goes a little blurry? Looking at your specs, everything should power that monitor just fine. But I’m wondering if your zoom setting is causing the issue. I would try finding a different resolution that works, rather than use magnifier zoom setting. Also, along with changing resolutions, try changing rate as well to see if you can find one that works with your setup.
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Couple of things. You need to use native resolutions for that monitor, or you will get blurry images/text on that monitor. 4k on a pc monitor, at the highest resolution, will result in small text and icons. You should have additional sizes you can select that are still native resolutions, or you’ll need to change your text size. Also, your video card needs to be able to do your resolution, or you can have blurry text – this includes the cables you use to attach to your monitor from the pc.
So, with that, what is your video card, PC, monitor, and how are you connecting it all?
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The event location may have specs that work well for their system. I would do as Tero suggested and contact the event tech person to find out what would be the best specs for delivery. Some might be able to use ProRes, which would be better, less lossy, than h264. But, the “High Quality” setting doesn’t really help you much unless you are scaling to a different image size, so I wouldn’t worry about that being checked. Higher bit rate and 2 pass can help with h264.
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Not sure why you want an uncompressed export. Do you realize the amount of disk space that eats up? And most places won’t accept that. https://toolstud.io/video/bitrate.php
I would stick with ProRes through your entire workflow. What is your final destination for the project? Broadcast will have it’s own issues you’re going to have to work through if your material is 24fps.
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Yeah. You can select one that is close and it will be fine. Or, in PPro, in your Bin, you can grab one of your ProRes files (if you are on a mac) and drag it onto the New Item icon on the lower left of your bin. You have a Search icon, New Bin icon, then the New Item icon. If you do it that way, your preview files in your Sequence Settings should show as ProRes as well – giving you even better render options when done if you render out to ProRes as well. Then you can use your preview files to speed up rendering. If you use preview files – I usually don’t.
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Yep. That’s what I suspected. Variable frame rates will cause you headaches in PPro. You are editing a variable frame rate in a constant frame rate sequence. Won’t work well. That’s why it was suggested you use Handbrake to convert the file to a constant frame rate.
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When you make a new sequence, you select what sort of codec you are using, yes. If you drag a source file from a bin to the new item icon it will make one that matches, or closely resembles, your source material.
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You can also send multiple sequences, or instances of the same sequence, and do them in an AME batch render while you still work.
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