Re: AVCIntra-Prores and Coloring Workflow

[Max Karli] "I'd love to reassure our DP that when we go to post the AppleProresHQ will be great for Color Correction!"


About as good as you can get for FCP.


[Max Karli] "We had a small situation on another film shot on RED as for economical reason we did not go back to the raw footage but corrected the Prores... He was not happy at all. Of course one some sequences he was able to color correct the raw and the difference is HUGE. "

This is a loaded question that brings up a number of factors. What was the RAW Red ftg converted to for the edit? Probably some inferior 8bit codec that doesn't handle color correcting well. Was the colorist any good? Was the PRORES that you refer to Standard Prores or Prores HQ? Not questioning anything, just bringing up some things that might have caused other issues.

[Max Karli] "Is it ok to color correct the prores or would we have a real gain by conforming the AVC intra! "


You can't edit AVC-Intra in FCP. So, you can't conform it in FCP. There probably is a way to convert it to uncompressed HD quicktimes and edit/color correct those, but I hope you got a boatload of storage space and computer horsepower.

Depending on whom you ask, I think that AVC-Intra was not created as a post production codec. It was meant as an aquisition codec to be converted/unwrapped/rewrapped to a post-friendly codec. That is the way you MUST use it within the FCP workflow at this time.

Good luck, I love our HPX2000 and shooting AVC-Intra. Images are beautiful, and I LOVE SQUARE PIXELS!!!! (AVC-Intra100, that is)


Matt

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