online question
by thomas miller
on
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:53:17 am
Hi
Gotta online and my timeline consist of mixed material - tif, digibeta, dv ect.
The trick is that ONLY the dv is to be changed to Proress.
Any sugestions on how I do that the easiest way?
Re: online question by Mike Kahn on Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01:54 pm
Here's what I would do.
1) Make a new project and drag your final sequence into it.
2) Duplicate the sequence and delete all audio. Call this DV Timeline
3) Create a new bin called Media
4) Select all video clips and drag them to the Media bin
5) Highlight all and set the label for all the clips to None to get rid of any label colors that may be applied
6) Sort your clips by compressor and apply a label to all your DV media
7) Toggle the Clip Keyframe button in the bottom left of your sequence and it will now show you all your DV footage as the color of the label you applied.
8) Now that you can visually see what clips are DV and need to be made into Prores, delete all clips from the timeline that are not DV. Make sure to keep all the clips in the exact right place in the timeline by deleting the clip but not having the timeline shift. Now you are left with just a timeline of all your DV footage in the exact correct places in the timeline as they are in your master timeline.
9) Right click on the DV Timeline sequence in the browser and select Media Manager.
10) Select "Recompress" and set your media to whatever Prores format you need. Uncheck "Include master clips outside of selection". Check "Delete unused media" and set 3 second handles. Base media files names on existing. Check "Duplicate selected items", uncheck "include nonactive multiclips". Set your media destination.
11)Press OK and save your new project to wherever you're projects live. Name it DV Upres. Hit save and walk away for a while.
With this, Compressor will take each clip from the timeline, upres it up to your prores setting and will create a new timeline with your clips in the exact places but in prores.
After all the compression is finished:
1) Bring the new DV Upres sequence into the original Final Project
2) Open the DV Upres sequence and set your playhead at the first frame. Copy the timecode and paste in the Final Sequence so your playheads are in the same exact frame for both sequences.
3) In the DV Upres sequence, select all your clips and moved them to a video layer higher then any in the Final Sequence (ie: if you have media in tracks V1-V3 in your final sequence, put the DV Upres media on V4)
4) In the DV Upres sequence, select all and copy. Paste on your new video track in the Final Sequence
5) Now all your DV Upres footage should be above your old DV footage. These shots should all match up perfectly and all you need to do is overwrite the old with the new.
Whew, hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Re: online question by Mike Kahn on Aug 6, 2009 at 10:07:11 pm
Just a side note, if you have mostly DV footage, this is going to take forever. You can also use a Kona and batch capture while upconverting. This might be best now that I think about it.
