Rendering/Outputting with Color
by Jeffrey Andrews
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May 13, 2008 at 4:08:14 am
I have a film that I shot on a DVX-100B. For right now I need to print to a MiniDV tape for a preliminary screening, here is my issue:
Captured the footage as DV/NTSC 1:1 in FCP 6. Edited everything and now am ready to send to Color for corrections. After I am done I only get options to render out in ProRes HQ, ProRes, 8-Bit Uncompressed, or 10-Bit Uncompressed. If I render to these high quality codecs and send the project back to FCP will they still work in a DV/NTSC sequence? Will they print to a MiniDV tape?
Re: Rendering/Outputting with Color by walter biscardi on May 13, 2008 at 8:18:26 am
[Jeffrey Andrews]"Captured the footage as DV/NTSC 1:1 in FCP 6."
Never heard it described this way. DV/NTSC is a 5:1 compressed codec.
[Jeffrey Andrews]"Captured the footage as DV/NTSC 1:1 in FCP 6. Edited everything and now am ready to send to Color for corrections. After I am done I only get options to render out in ProRes HQ, ProRes, 8-Bit Uncompressed, or 10-Bit Uncompressed"
No, if you have a DV-NTSC timeline and you use the Send To Color Option, you'll have the option to render in "Original Format." I just completed a rather large DV project last week and everything was rendered native DV.
[Jeffrey Andrews]"If I render to these high quality codecs and send the project back to FCP will they still work in a DV/NTSC sequence? Will they print to a MiniDV tape?"
This will result in another round of 5:1 DV compression and not what you want.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
