[Walter Miale]

Don’t editing and rendering dv sd footage in ProRes provide results superior to editing and rendering in dv??

[Walter Miale]

Solved. Font was missing from the Font Book, so I dragged in a replacement from a Font Suitcase on another drive.

[Walter Miale]

Thanks so much for your help Rafael.

I’m afraid I’m still not fully following. My understanding was that for best quality one wants to never render a clip that has already been rendered, yes?

So that if one is going to output for m2v encoding, the best thing would be to send for encoding a timeline in which nothing has been rendered (or in which all the clips were dis-enabled and then re-enabled). Is this not true?

Another Q: If I have nothing selected in the timeline and I change the timeline settings to “Render all YUV material in High Precision” will this override all the clip settings AND the overall timeline format (eg dv/dvcPro or ProRes 222–where it’s only 10-bit material that is rendered in High Precision YUV)?

Thanks yet again.

Walter

Walter

[Walter Miale]

Rafael –

Is converting the timeline settings to ProRes equivalent to exporting to ProRes?

If I export unrendered sequences for m2v or H264, what difference do the timeline settings make?

I use Photoshop files instead of jpeg. Is this overkill? (seems OK)

What do you mean “files smaller than dv”?

Thanks again.

walter

[Walter Miale]

“1. You should visit our Photoshop forum and watch some of the podcasts”

Wow very impressive.

“2. Design at native size with nonsquare pixels”

Oh yes. I was working at 720 x 534 with square pixels (to match dv NTSC). What ratio should the pixels be?

“3. Adjust your Type anti-alias method in Photoshop Options bar
“4. Save with an alpha”

Hey I didn’t know about that. Always convert type to shape?

“5. Don’t use DV codec… switch sequence at end to DV50 and render… DV KILLS graphics and tosses 75% plus of information.”

I’m converting active sequences to ProRes 422 NTSC, OK?

Thanks!

Walter

[Walter Miale]

Let me see if I understand. My working timelines are full of dv sd footage. I did quick and dirty renders as I was working. So before duplicating the timeline, is this it: dis-enable and re-enable all the clips (to “unrender” them) so that re-digitizing takes place in a 422 color space, and convert the timelines to ProRes before either exporting to QT or Sending to Compressor for m2v encoding, right? Is this equivalent to having captured to ProRes originally?

If the only re-digitizing (or rendering) takes place in Compressor’s encoding for m2v, (or in the export to QT) does it then not matter if the un-rendered sequence was edited in a dv timeline or a ProRes timeline?

I noticed in some tests that when I exported “unrendered” sequences to QT using ProRes, i.e. without giving them a final render, the image seems a bit worse than exporting after rendering. Is that what you would expect? Or was this anomalous?

Thanks again.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

oh yeah, that’s good.

But what’s the difference whether I’m exporting to dv or not? Sometimes to dv, usually to QT full-size or web-size, but at the moment to Compressor for encoding to DVD.

Thanks.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

OK, I get it. When the Photoshop file (with type as shape) is placed in Photoshop and opened from the browser, the type in the nested sequence is clean, and it’s still ok after draging the visible layer into the timeline with the background.

[Walter Miale]

I see, thank you.

BTW Rafael, your videos are magnificent, as you well know. I’m watching them over and have to pry myself away.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

Oh I see there are a million setups in the Final Cut Pro Additional Easy Setups folder on the desktop. The Help menu seems to be telling me that if I want them I have to reinstall FCP.

I presume I can just ignore the Easy setup feature and the project and its timelines will never know, yes?

Thanks.