Converting Videos in Toast Titanium for FCP

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Luke1987 Author

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Converting Videos in Toast Titanium for FCP

I am about to start editing a showreel for a cinematographer and he has handed me a disk with his current showreel on.

I want to open it in Toast 10 Titanium and then convert it to a video format for editing in Final Cut Pro 6.0.5. I was wondering what conversion option to choose in order to get the best possible quality video for editing? At the moment the quicktime movie option seems to get the best results but Final Cut needs to render the video before I can start editing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Imac 24" 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 4GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 1, 2009 6:13 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 1, 2009 6:42 AM in response to Luke1987

it seems strange to me that fcp needs to render the quicktimes you make. Are you sure the settings of your sequence match the codec used with toast?

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Jun 1, 2009 6:47 AM in response to Luke1987

the quicktime movie option seems to get the best results but Final Cut needs to render the video

A QuickTime Movie ... but which codec? the .MOV designation is a container only; the video/audio within could be made with any number of codecs.

-DH

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Luke1987 Author

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Jun 1, 2009 7:23 AM in response to David Harbsmeier

The codec is MPEG-4 Video, AAC.

What would I need to change the settings to under 'easy setup' to use this video codec? If I change it to 'PAL IMX 8-bit PAL - 40 Mb/s - 48kHz' it plays the video but needs to render the audio.

Would this video type be recommended as a good conversion to get the best quality transfer from the original DVD then?

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David S.

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Jun 1, 2009 8:09 AM in response to Luke1987

Look at your easy set ups?

Do you see one for DV with aiff audio?

If you do, jot down the specifics and use those to demux.

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Luke1987 Author

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Jun 1, 2009 9:02 AM in response to David S.

No can't see anything in the set ups menu. The audio render only takes a couple of seconds.

What I really want to know is what is the best conversion option to choose from in Toast to use for editing in FCP? I want to export the video from the DVD without losing any quality or resolution.

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Jun 1, 2009 9:12 AM in response to Luke1987

You won't lose any quality by using the standard QuickTime DV codec with audio at 48khz, 16 bit (NOT a DV Stream). DVD-Video is HIGHLY compressed and lacks a lot of frame-to-frame information - some artifacting will be inevitable.

However, if you plan to go back to DVD eventually, you WILL lose quality from the second compression pass. This is why is is NOT recommended to use DVD-Video as a source.

-DH

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