Friday, November 13, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] Quicktime export time code conundrum

If your media is 10bit uncompressed and your timeline settings are
ProRes 422 HQ, then your exports couldn't be the same as the source.
They wouldbe Prores as well. Am I missing something in your question?

Rainer Standke
XMiL Workflow Tools
http://www.xmil.biz

On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:11 , Kerry Soloway wrote:

> I have noticed that if I export a Quicktime movie in FCP from the
> timeline
> and there are illegal characters in the name of the file, that it will
> export without timecode. This is on an FCP 7 system working in
> ProRes 422 HQ
> in standard def.
>
> If I change the name of the file to be saved before exporting, the
> exact
> same sequence will export with the appropriate time code. Obviously
> the
> answer is to avoid illegal characters in the file name, but I was just
> wondering if anybody else has experienced this.
>
> One other thing. If I export the Pro-Res QT and attempt to edit that
> to tape
> rather than the rendered timeline itself, it looks awful. This is a
> project
> that I wrote about several weeks ago where the previous editor had
> captured
> the original footage at 10 bit uncompressed and the external drives
> that he
> was capturing to, simply weren't up to the task of playing back
> those files,
> so I changed the time line to ProRess 422 HQ and things have been
> working
> fine. Is there something that I'm failing to do during the export?
> If the
> time line looks fine and I'm exporting using current settings, I
> would have
> thought that the resultant Quicktime should be an exact copy.
>
> Kerry
> -------------------
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> ksoloway@gmail.com
>
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