Uncompressed Quicktimes

Question

Level 1

0 points

Uncompressed Quicktimes

I am editing a DVCPro HD 1080 24P project on Final Cut. I' having some HDCam footage converted to Quicktime files but was told that it could only be converted to uncompressed HD Quicktime files through mac codec. I'm assuming that I will have to convert these uncompressed files to DVCPro HD to edit with them, but will I be losing any image quality? Is there a better Quicktime format I should inquire about?

thanks

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on May 1, 2008 12:48 PM

Reply

Answer 1

budakhan

Level 3

940 points

May 1, 2008 1:12 PM in response to dl212

DVCPRO HD is a more compressed format than HDCAM. Because I can't experiment with the footage myself, I can't give you an absolute answer. But you may want to try just dumping your HDCAM footage into your DVCPRO HD timeline. If it chugs and looks gross on your external monitor, You can transcode the HDCAM quicktimes to DVCPRO HD via the program "Compressor". I'm willing to be that the transcode workflow would be the best option.

Reply

Answer 2

tallguy

Level 4

1,415 points

May 1, 2008 1:14 PM in response to dl212

assuming the HDCam footage was shot 23.98 it can be converted to DVCProHD.
considering if they are 10 bit uncompressed the data rate is somewhere around 118 meg/sec and closer to 14 meg/sec in DVCProHD there is a significant drop in data, however DVCProHD is a great looking codec, and the uncompressed HD takes a hoss of a drive system to keep up

Reply

Answer 3

tallguy

Level 4

1,415 points

May 1, 2008 2:36 PM in response to tallguy

tallguy wrote:
assuming the HDCam footage was shot 23.98 it can be converted to DVCProHD.

meant to finish sentence ... converted to DVCproHD 24P
tg

Reply