Exporting with the FS700.

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PremiumIC

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Hey Guys,

I'm the first to admit some incompetence in the exporting department. I've always just used trail and error and moved on, but I'd really love to learn more. I'm not on the 7Q yet so I'm really looking to maximize what detail I have in the AVCHD 1080p footage. We recently sold our first spec spot and the brand wants our :30 second edit in an uncompressed format. I'm on a PC running Adobe and I'm still trying to really figure out the best way to preserve everything in an export.

I've tried the Quicktime/Uncompressed YUV 8bit 422 codec and it turned our :30 second spot into a 3.7 gig file. How is that possible?

Like I said, I've always focused on becoming a better shooter and director and kinda neglected this really important aspect of film making. I've tried googling and reading up on different sites but I don't have a good entry point anywhere.

Some guidance would be really appreciated.

I love you.

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If they require uncompressed, it's going to be that big. Perhaps ask if they can accept DNxHD 175 422, which will look the same as uncompressed but will be much smaller.
 
PremiumIC said:
... I've tried the Quicktime/Uncompressed YUV 8bit 422 codec and it turned our :30 second spot into a 3.7 gig file. How is that possible?
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Uncompressed is really silly... but of course if that's what the customer wants, then that's what you'll have to give them....

A 1080p frame is 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels. A pixel in 4:2:2 is 16 bits = 2 bytes, so a frame is 4,147,200 bytes. 30 FPS is 124,416,000 bytes per second, or 3,732,480,000 bytes = 3.7 gig for 30 seconds.

So yeah, convince them to use a compressed lossless format, or better yet a compressed lossy format with the quality dialed up way high. Or get a huge disk to transfer the footage on.
 
If the client can take the file on a SD/CF card not really an issue. If uploading with a slow network connection, can be an issue.
 
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