Compressing Apple Pro Res 422
by Arturo Celleri
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Nov 2, 2009 at 9:18:48 pm
Hello,
I have a big job ahead of me to compress 5 seperate events which are each about 6 hours long into a format that is easily viewable using common media players, like Quick Time, or VLC, or other.
I captured the footage on a Sony AVCHD camera and have logged and transfered all of the footage into FCPro 6. I tried to compress the first event (about 6hrs long) and the compression went on for almost 2 days and I still didn't get a workable video.
I think I don't know what I'm doing and would love to get some guidance to how to do this the quickest way possible. I would like to estimate if I can even accomplish this job by evaluating how much time it will take.
I am specifically asking for the following info:
What is the best compressor setting to use to compress Apple Pro Res 422 into a (.mov) file or someother easily playable file on a computer.
How long should I expect this to take?
Re: Compressing Apple Pro Res 422 by John Fishback on Nov 2, 2009 at 11:19:08 pm
H.264 may be your best bet. Also, breaking up the files into smaller units may make the encodes more manageable. But it will still take a long time. You might investigate Matrox's Compress HD technology for faster than realtime encoding to H.264. Link to Matrox Site
What about playing the files in real time onto DVDs. You can also include timecode if this is for review purposes..
John
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Re: Compressing Apple Pro Res 422 by Arturo Celleri on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:33:45 am
Thanks for the info.
I would like to go with the DVD recording option, How would I do this if I've already taken all of my videos off of the camera and now they are stored on my Graid in the AVCHD file structure.
