Tape Equivalent?

[REHov520]

Hi,

When your exporting out of Final Cut, what would be essentially the same as printing to tape and then re-captuing it to your hard drive? Is there some export compression rate that would produce the exact same result as this? If you just export to default quicktime the quality is less than tape, and if you export uncompressed the file is too huge. Is there a way that would be identical to printing to tape and then recapturing?

 

[rapsucks]

NTSC, dude. Or PAL, if you're thusly geographically inclined. I would make sure the framerate matches your edited footage.

You can also putz with the Quicktime settings to find a happy middle ground between file size and quality, but using the presets are nice because you can then form a new editing sequence based on the same preset and edit your exported footage no problem.

One thing you should know is that if you are doing this to be able to edit some footage together, export it, and then be able to edit it together as one file, there are easier ways. The most simple way is to edit the footage together in a sequence, and then drag the sequence into another sequence. In the new sequence, the old edits will all appear as one clip.

And a final note: if you choose File:Export:Export using Quicktime conversion, the file will be exported using the settings of the current timeline (probably DV, if you captured from tape).

 

[bbalser]

If you just export to default quicktime the quality is less than tape...

Not true, it gives you exactly what would be on tape.