Working with XDCAM 1080p24. . . Whenever I render (which isn't often), I get a "Conforming Mpeg-2 Video. . ." Dialog box. All my sequence setting match. . . I'm just terribly curious what it is conforming too?
All footage came from F3, L&T'd in FCP 7.0.3. . .
Any thoughts?
~M
This is normal. xdcam is an mpeg2 format in which each frame is not descrete, but is compressed based on nieighboring frames (except for i frames) and although it can play some effects realtime, when you render and/or export, it has to render everything.
If you want to avoid this, you might want to transcode to prores before editing.
This is normal. xdcam is an mpeg2 format in which each frame is not descrete, but is compressed based on nieighboring frames (except for i frames) and although it can play some effects realtime, when you render and/or export, it has to render everything.
If you want to avoid this, you might want to transcode to prores before editing.
Michael,
Thanks for the quick response.
One thing that I looked for in the L&T window (after installing the XDcam Plugin) was the option to transcode to Prores (LT would have been preferred, with an online to HQ later), but I couldn't seem to find the options in the menu (I had all the Prores flavors under my RED plugin in the same menu, for example).
Would I have to transcode in Compressor after L&T?
~M
I think you're right that you can't transcode as you L&T, so compressor may be the only option. However, you might want to check out rendering your xdcam sequence in prores which seems to speed things up if I remember correctly. You can set this in sequence settings: render control.
Copy That. I'm definitely gonna try that out when i'm not in a client session. . . but thank you muchly!!
~M
XDCAM 1080p24. . . "Conforming Mpeg-2 Video. . ." ???
