When to ProRez?

Chadfish

Chadfish

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Howdy.

Working in FCP.

So far I have not done anything with my footage except rewrap as .mov during transfer. Things have looked nice at XDCAMEX codec - even through color grading, except when converting long files to .m2v for dvd. I sometimes get an intermittent pixelization that happens somewhere in the .m2v file. I have found many get this issue when making dvd files in compressor. So I rendered out to ProRez 422, then rendered the 422 files for DVD.

Today I am shooting a 2 cam thing of a "live in the studio" performance. I want to keep the quality at the highest, and color grade for final output. I think I'll shoot 1080/24p. My question is:

• Do I capture at Prorez 422, then edit and export at that setting?
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• Do I capture as normal: XDCAMEX.mov, then convert to Prorez 422, edit in a prorez422 sequence, export?
Or
•*Do I Capture XDCAMex.mov, edit in an XDCAMEX sequence, export as Prorez422?

I'm not sure when to throw Prorez into the picture. I will be using Magic Bullet Looks in the timeline. I will be returning with the 2nd camera guy to capture our footage, and I want to get it right from the start.

Let me know what you know!

Thanks

Chadfish.
 
If your Mac is fast enough (quad core) and you have some kind of HD-SDI card you can try to capture EX1 output directly to ProRes (on set), as well. Don't try it with MacBook (Pro) unless you have Aja I/O which is capable of encoding to ProRes in hardware...
Still, I think it only matters if you shoot greenscreen or your frame is extremely busy (a lot of movement).
 
Very interesting question....I'd like the answer but dealing with Premiere Pro.

Most of us still produce SD Video from EX1/EX3
 
trez said:
unless you have Aja I/O which is capable of encoding to ProRes in hardware...
Click to expand...

Also - correct me if wrong - the Matrox MXO2 does this too. Plugs in via PCIe slot.

Or leave the MacBook Pro behind and record onto AJA KiPro?
 
Any capture card (Matrox MXO2 included) can do ProRes so long as the CPU can handle a ProRes encoding. That would exclude the current generation of MBPro's since ProRes requires quad-core to encode real-time. The IoHD (like the KiPro) has hardware ProRes encoding.

Ned Soltz
 
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