Exporting a video from Apple Prores 4444 footage
Hi everyone.
First of all I'd like to clarify that I've searched everywhere in this forum and although there are a lot of questions similar to mine, I still haven't found a solution to my problem.
Here are the facts:
My Equipment: iMac. Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Video editing software: FCP
Original video recorded with a Canon 500D.
Original video format and codec: MOV H.264 (Full HD 1920 x 1080) > converted to Apple ProRes 4444 to preserve high quality and be able to work on FCP.
I also have to clarify that I'm a newby when it comes to working with ProRes 4444.
The editing on FCP went smoothly...the problem came when exporting the project.
I have tried exporting to all types of formats and codecs and I always lose a lot of quality (which is very frustrating since the original video has excellent HD quality). I don't expect to improve quality when exporting, I just don't want the video to lose that much quality.
The last thing I tried: checked all settings, and today I realized my sequence settings where set to DV/DVCPRO - NTSC. I copied everything to a new sequence prepped for Apple ProRes 4444 (since you can't change the Sequence settings once there's a clip on the timeline). After doing this, the video on the canvas shrunk. Nevertheless, I exported to Quick Time Movie with current settings to see what happened: I obtained a video with frame size 1920 x 1080 (the size I want), BUT the actual video, which appeared to be of good quality, shrunk to half of its original size and was surrounded by a hugely thick black frame -thicker than a letterbox (like in the canvas).
Could anybody please advise me on how to export my video under this circumstances? and/or point out something I might be missing?
I've also searched for a guide on how to set FCP before starting to work with Prores 4444 footage and haven't found one. If anybody knows about one, or can share the steps with me, I'd be VERY thankful.
Thanks for reading and for your help!
Rossina
First of all I'd like to clarify that I've searched everywhere in this forum and although there are a lot of questions similar to mine, I still haven't found a solution to my problem.
Here are the facts:
My Equipment: iMac. Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Video editing software: FCP
Original video recorded with a Canon 500D.
Original video format and codec: MOV H.264 (Full HD 1920 x 1080) > converted to Apple ProRes 4444 to preserve high quality and be able to work on FCP.
I also have to clarify that I'm a newby when it comes to working with ProRes 4444.
The editing on FCP went smoothly...the problem came when exporting the project.
I have tried exporting to all types of formats and codecs and I always lose a lot of quality (which is very frustrating since the original video has excellent HD quality). I don't expect to improve quality when exporting, I just don't want the video to lose that much quality.
The last thing I tried: checked all settings, and today I realized my sequence settings where set to DV/DVCPRO - NTSC. I copied everything to a new sequence prepped for Apple ProRes 4444 (since you can't change the Sequence settings once there's a clip on the timeline). After doing this, the video on the canvas shrunk. Nevertheless, I exported to Quick Time Movie with current settings to see what happened: I obtained a video with frame size 1920 x 1080 (the size I want), BUT the actual video, which appeared to be of good quality, shrunk to half of its original size and was surrounded by a hugely thick black frame -thicker than a letterbox (like in the canvas).
Could anybody please advise me on how to export my video under this circumstances? and/or point out something I might be missing?
I've also searched for a guide on how to set FCP before starting to work with Prores 4444 footage and haven't found one. If anybody knows about one, or can share the steps with me, I'd be VERY thankful.
Thanks for reading and for your help!
Rossina
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6), Apple ProRes 4444
