Delivering .MOV files to client

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craigglaspell

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I am shooting an action sports event for a new client this weekend, I do not have to do editing. He wants .mov files, hes been working with 5d2 clips and this is all he knows??

So, whats going to be my quickest workflow to convert all my hmc150 files to .mov so I can deliver him the clips?

Thanks
 
Well if you import to FCP then .MOV is an easy output choice.

If you are Windows - then I strongly suggest you buy the el-cheapo QuickTime Pro because it has a lot of great output options including .MOV.
 
I am on a mac and have toast and FCP. sorry I did not put that in OP.

Just wondering which will be faster while maintaining quality.
 
Sounds interesting. Too bad it's just not there yet.
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Well you could edit the h.264 in FCP (in the .mov wrapper) but if you were to apply filters or any type of effects, then it'll very taxing on your editing station... Kind of how AVCHD (natively file) is on Premier!

But it should be a great option for some of us that want to do SDE's at a wedding!
 
Superfresa66 said:
Well you could edit the h.264 in FCP (in the .mov wrapper) but if you were to apply filters or any type of effects, then it'll very taxing on your editing station... Kind of how AVCHD (natively file) is on Premier!
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I know, I know. But still it's kinda interesting especially because Quicktime Pro let's you do things with the Quicktime container format you can not do yet with native AVCHD transport streams. For example you could extract parts of the footage and throw away the rest without transcoding etc. Great for archiving purposes.
 
What i was saying about "clipwraper" is that it makes the original AVCHD file (the one on the stream folder on your card) look like a regular .MOV file, so you wouldn't have to "log and transfer"
But the software is not out yet!...

Maybe the best way to deliver your files would be by burning the entire "Private" folder and giving it to your Client on a DL-DVD (dual layer DVD) or a few. You could put 1 8GB card per DVD-DL

If he's editing 5DMKII files he should have fairly updated software to be able to edit natively (the original AVCHD file) or Transcode (Change the format to something else)...
Ask him what he uses to edit, either Mac or Windows, and also what Software and what version. Chances are he could handle the files just fine!
 
I know, I know. But still it's kinda interesting especially because Quicktime Pro let's you do things with the Quicktime container format you can not do yet with native AVCHD transport streams. For example you could extract parts of the footage and throw away the rest without transcoding etc. Great for archiving purposes.
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What I think would be great is shooting AVCHD, wrapping the file as a .mov, do any type of editing and color gradding in FCP and then outputting to a X264 file (hopefully without any quality loss, kind of like just joining the files together) and at the end burning a blu-ray DVD with relatively the same quality as the camera without any type of compression!
 
DPStewart said:
If you are Windows - then I strongly suggest you buy the el-cheapo QuickTime Pro because it has a lot of great output options including .MOV.
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Woah-- can you open the .MTS files in Quicktime Pro? It doesn't work on my computers (I have Vista and 7). I'd love to be able to open them up there and export to another format... as it is now I need to use Premiere or the MainConcept transcoder to DVCPRO-HD.
 
TigerFX said:
Woah-- can you open the .MTS files in Quicktime Pro? It doesn't work on my computers (I have Vista and 7). I'd love to be able to open them up there and export to another format... as it is now I need to use Premiere or the MainConcept transcoder to DVCPRO-HD.
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Ooops, I didn't mean to mislead.
I don't think it can.
But every time I've used QT to encode to .MOV I was starting with one of the formats it could handle.
I coulda been more clear there.
 
Superfresa66 said:
What I think would be great is shooting AVCHD, wrapping the file as a .mov, do any type of editing and color gradding in FCP and then outputting to a X264 file (hopefully without any quality loss, kind of like just joining the files together)
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If you want to do that kind of things I think you're better off with ProRes. As soon as you alter the actual image H.264 is not the right codec. But for trimming purposes it might work out (depending on the keyframes).
 
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