A costumer who wants to save tapes and shippings and it's sending me the commercials to localise in High Quality MPEG2 files in 4:2:2 profile at 19Mbps.
Default Quicktime Codec does not read the this kind of MPEG2 files. And the Apps I have found can read this MPEG2 files (VisualHUB or ffmpeg) are not handling professional Quicktime formats such ProRes or uncompressed.
Does anybody knows a codec to be installed in QT or a app on the style of MPEGStreamclip or VisualHuB capable to transcode from this 4:2:2 MPEG2 files to Uncompressed Quicktime for FCP?
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Re: 4:2:2 MPEG2 codec by Berenger Capmany on Mar 3, 2008 at 10:06:58 am
Hello Ron,
Ah! that will be the ideal scenario!.. I already know Sheer... but I really think it's quite impossible for me, a unknow one i a tiny country somewhere in Europe that barely appears on the maps, to change the mind of a big Hollywood Major.
Their proposal is to buy a Computer with a MPEG2 card with SDI output, connect that SDI to the Decklink, play the video and manually digitise from Final Cut... as you see the cutting edge of tapeless techology! :)
Re: 4:2:2 MPEG2 codec by Berenger Capmany on Mar 31, 2008 at 6:21:42 pm
nope...
The only way I found was to open the MPEG2 in visualHub and then export to H.264 with top quality.. then re-export again to the codec needed for edit, Uncompressed in my case...
it's a pain, and not the best solution, but the only pipeline found..
