DVCPRO HD Archive Question


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DVCPRO HD Archive Question
by Jon Salimes on Apr 12, 2009 at 2:05:54 am

I have a bunch of projects shot in 720/24pn mode with the DVCPRO HD codec. The raw footage has to be deleted but I want to render out the highest quality versions possible for future use. This stuff will probably end up on blu-ray at some point but I don't have the time to find the best compressor for that sort of thing at the moment.

So until I figure out compression details, am I best off just rendering the projects back out in DVCPRO HD considering that's the source codec? Or will even doing that result in some kind of quality loss?

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Re: DVCPRO HD Archive Question
by Rich Rubasch on Apr 12, 2009 at 2:49:21 am

Right off the timeline in FCP simply Export Quicktime Movie and check the Make Self-Contained box. That will do it.

Why not output it to DVCProHD tape, which would also be a clean archive.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

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Re: DVCPRO HD Archive Question
by Jon Salimes on Apr 12, 2009 at 3:02:17 am

I've considered tape as a secondary backup. Right now I just gotta get all this raw footage off my hard drives. Thanks for answering the question!

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