Professional Colour Correction and file formats

Johnathan

Johnathan

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I've just edited a 15min short using DVCPro HD (from Main Concept) in Avid. What codec should I export to in order to best preserve the integrity/latitude/fps (whathaveyou) of the footage?
Procoder only seems to allow the target DVCPro (Pal) codec to be SD and 4:3 aspect ratio.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Also, what are the norms for ingestion in professional colour correction suits? What does it spit out?


Thanks very much.
 
Ive fought back and forth with many codecs and formats and most the time i just end up going with Quicktime with the setting at "animation" with as little compression as possible. (File sizes are huge though)

For example checkout this clip i exported:
http://thisisthebase.com/client/Lights/facecloseup.mov
http://thisisthebase.com/client/Lights/ <go there to right click and save as directly>

make sure you DONT stream that as its 400mb. This clip is after color correction, but when i export for color correction I always do Tiff sequences at max depth.

Hope that helps somewhat, let me know if this doesnt make sense.
 
You need a codec that has at least the bit depth you're working at, and won't information. A number of ways to do it. Since you cut in Avid, probably the easiest is to export into DNxHD at 220/175 Mbps x 10 bit. That will be slightly more than a gig a minute.

You could also export individual frames as images. I believe you can export DPX files from Avid and that is a good solution. You can manipulate those DPX files later with Metafuze if you like.
 
Try the DNxHD. Me, in Media Composer, I get good results with DNxHD 145 when working in 1080 30p. But you have a lot of options.

You can do a video mixdown, then do a Quicktime reference.

But for professional Colour Correction, 10 bit should be better.
 
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