truly lossless dv?

[jerzythepeddler]

I have recently been wanting to export some of my final timelines to master quicktimes. I would love to get it as uncompressed as possible so I can always use that to export an mpeg2 or anything else that might not require opening the full project and also just to have a master quality copy. Lastly, what are the best settings for exporting FCP footage for using in a different program then the settings for reimporting back into FCP without much loss. BTW, I am using FCP 5.1.4 and a DVX100b. I have tried to search for the answers and found half-answers but never a definitive "Right Way". Any help would be appreciated.

[jamesnw]

Go to File- Export- Quicktime Movie.

Use setting: Current Settings. This means whatever your timeline is set at, it will use that. Hopefully your source material is all in the same setting as the timeline.

Only other thing to worry about is Self Contained Quicktime (SCQT) or not- If you will never be separating this exported file from the source footage, you wouldn't need a SCQT. A SCQT makes a new video file that contains all the footage- basically it clumps it all together, without recompressing to another format. If you uncheck that box, you'll get a file that references your other media. So no conversion, compression, anything. It'll be a very small file that references the sections of the other media as possible.

Hope that helps.

[jerzythepeddler]

Thanks jamesnw. What confused me was that I always try to use Compressor for my mpeg2s and thought that would work best but I tried exporting a straight quick time how you described and that worked great.

[adkimery]

If you have any text/gfx or color correction in your piece then a higher quality format like DV50, ProRes, or MJPEG would be a better choice. It won't make you source DV footage look any better, but it will keep things from falling apart as fast when you add things like gfx or do color correction.

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[jerzythepeddler]

So what exacly would I do? Just edit as normal on a NTSC DV sequence then when I am ready for text and color correction just export then reimport into a new sequence with DV50 settings?

[adkimery]

You could just edit in a DV25 sequence then copy and paste those cuts into a DV50 sequence.


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[jerzythepeddler]

Thanks adkimery.

[adkimery]

No sweat. :)


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