Poor Man’s Uprez
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Sometimes you don’t
have the time to do an online session and ingest
your clips as uncompressed, or maybe you just don’t
have the equipment to support the process. Either
way, here is a quick way to achieve uncompressed
space via software. Just be aware that this method
won’t make your video look better, but what it will
do is give you great bandwidth for color correction
(versus DV or HDV, for example), and make your text
and graphics look as good as possible.
If you’re going back to tape make sure your hard drives are fast enough to support uncompressed playback (might be a big issue if you’re attempting to do this with HD).
If your final output is DVD or the web, don’t worry about not being able to play it back, as you’ll simply output the file through Compressor and don’t need real-time playback.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Start by creating a new sequence and load the uncompressed 10-Bit preset.
- If you’re working in HD simply change your frame size and pixel aspect ratio to the flavor of your choice. Click OK to save the changes to your new sequence.
- Find your original sequence in your Browser and drag it to the Canvas. Make sure you’re holding down the Command key as you don’t want to nest this sequence (Command will make all the clips come in as individual clips, not as a nest) and choose Overwrite. Also make sure you have the same number of video and audio tracks as your original to ensure clips don’t get lost.
- All of your
clips will be placed in the Timeline and simply
choose to render the sequence.
If you’re going back to tape make sure your hard drives are fast enough to support uncompressed playback (might be a big issue if you’re attempting to do this with HD).
If your final output is DVD or the web, don’t worry about not being able to play it back, as you’ll simply output the file through Compressor and don’t need real-time playback.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.