How can i do this?

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Schmovies production

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..."The submission process is as simple as burning the clips to a dvd in apple quicktime .mov format in the camera native codec (hdcam, xdcam, dvcprohd or hdv) and mailing the dvd to alwayshd."...

This is really not clear to me. How can i burn a mov ( or an avi) in the camera native codec?
 
All Apple Quicktime is is a wrapper for a bunch of codecs so when you create a .mov you are in fact creating a quicktime in a particular codec. If you have any quicktimes on your computer and you play them then click on WINDOW then SHOW MOVIE INFO it will tell you what codec it was created with, im sure the rest you can figure out on your own.
 
thanks for your fast reply. But i'm still in high seas.
The only workflow i can assume to do this is with dvfilmaker to mov (or avi) non compressed but the result is gigantic.
Maybe i will write to alwayshd.com...
 
Match sequence setting to camera

Match sequence setting to camera

Contacting the person that you delivered to is always a good idea. If they want it such a specific way they ought to have someone that can help guide you in that area.

Basically all they are saying though is that your sequence/timeline that you use to export a .MOV for them should be in the same codec that the camera was in. With the HVX for example, the codec is DVCPro HD. So make sure your sequence/timeline is set to that when you export the .MOV and you've given them what they want. With a mini-DV camera you'd use the simple DV 25 codec. As these are all pretty standard across the board, I guess the post house prefers you use one of them to help ensure they can read the quicktime file (versus you say using some nifty compressor you downloaded somewhere that only a few people actually have/use).

As for the filesizes, depending upon the length of your project, yes the filesizes could be rather large. In which case you may need to deliever to the post house an external HDD with quicktime. Though in the quote you gave you said they asked for the 'clips' to be delivered as such, so without more information about your project and the needs of the post company I can't really comment more about the 'burn it to DVD' aspect (which is really impossible unless you're doing a very short spot).

cheers.
 
thanks varicam, we are getting to the point.
Basicall when you submit a "clip" to a video bank we are talking about a 15 to 60 seconds of non edited footage, like takes.
Last shipment i sent 103 clips of various lenght for a total of 220 gb.
I'm on Premiere, I've tried to save a clip in quicktime but in the compressor options there is no dvcprohd option. So i saved a QT with none compression, which means a very large clip, in 720 around 1 gb x 15 seconds. The hdd is a must, then, but a very expensive must if you want to ship many clips.

1- There is the possibility to add the dvcprohd comp to the options in premiere
2- Avid already does that?
3- FCpro?1

best
 
Load the uncompressed QT file into the QuickTime player, and export it from there -- you can specify a different codec then. On the Mac, you will be able to choose the DVCPro codecs, but on the PC, they are not supported in QuickTime.
 
QT 7 on pc has the dvcpro-pal option as compression output. I compressed a QT uncomp 3 secs clip of 300mb to a QTdvcpro-pal of 12mb. I set all the settings to best here best there and the image has been distroyed.
I wonder if having the dvcproHD codec makes the difference
 
I should have responded sooner, sorry bout that. It probably is ambiguous. The goal is to keep the footage as "clean" as possible. Obviously, uncompressed is the best, but it's not feasible for transport.

We state that we want the footage in its camera native codec (compression format) as a Quicktime (AVI is just fine, too). What we mean is this; if you record to tape, then the footage has been compressed by the camera to the format specific to the tape it uses (HDCAM, DVCproHD, or HDV). You then capture and edit the footage. Each clip should then be exported to either an AVI or MOV. Do not recompress to another codec. If you shoot Panasonic, then send an AVI in the DVCproHD codec. (If you shoot uncompressed, please compress it before sending as either an HDCAM or DVCproHD.)

The following is a breakdown of the expected file size per second of each format . . . and how many seconds of footage would fit on one 4.7GB DVDr
HDCAM 22.5 MB/sec = 208 seconds per DVD
DVCproHD 12.5 MB/sec = 376 seconds per DVD
HDV 3.5 MB/sec = 1342 seconds per DVD

So 100 clips at 30 seconds = 3000 seconds. If it's DVCproHD, that would be 10 DVD's. But under the current promotion if all 100 were accepted, you'd get $1000 just for submitting.

I hope this makes sense . . .
 
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