Re: [FCP-L] Re: Codec Conundrum for Cross Platform Data DVD

Looking at the amount of video that you need to provide, I think that the
closest you will get is DV for the SD material and HDV for the HD.

According to my calculations we're talking about a total of 40 minutes of
HD and 6 minutes of SD. Even DV and HDV may be too large for that much
material.

Using Martin Baker's Videospace widget, we see that 40 minutes of 1080i as
HDV requires almost 7.5 GB. 6 minutes of DV is 1.27 GB. So you have a total
of almost 9 gigs. (How much data can you actually store on a DVD9?)

The bit rates for DVCPro 50 and DVCPro HD will consume 2 and 4 times as much
space respectively. And even ProRes Proxy only save a little bit of space
from DVCPro 50.

I can't comment on the JPG codecs since I never use them, but I would think
that any computer editing system would be able to work with DV and HDV
files.

Kerry
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Kerry Soloway
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, MarkB <eatapc@me.com> wrote:

>
>
> For SD, I really like DVCPro50 -- as opposed to DV50 -- because of the
> 4:2:2 color space. For HD, the DVCPro HD codec is very efficient and easy to
> edit with. I also think Apple ProRes is a good choice. Mac + Windows codec
> (or links to download them) can be supplied on your data DVD.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com <FinalCutPro-L%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Rick <a_pmb_fan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Photo Jpeg at 99% will give you decent file sizes and good quality.
> h.264, while it's not an editing codec all of the apps can work with it.
> >
> > Avid and Premiere pro will read DVCProHD files, but Vegas will need a
> $100 raylight decoder to do it. For the SD stuff, just do DV50, not 25.
> >
> > Rick Emery
> > www.rickemery.com
> >
> >
>
>
>

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