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Hi, client has asked for a fully uncompressed Quicktime format of a project we did for them. It was a 2 minute clip done on FCP. What are the export settings for a fully uncompressed quicktime clip?
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Thanks Shane. Very helpful.
Just to be clear, ALL ProRes is compressed. It is bit rate reduced. Uncompressed 10 or 8 bit is just that - uncompressed. All the data is there.
There is no advantage to take a compressed file and convert it to uncompressed. You gain nothing but a much larger file. To maintain the quality of your sequence, output it in the same format you used to edit. 10 bit uncompressed 1080p30 is 597 GB per hour. ProRes 444 is 167 GB per hour. XDCAM HD is 23 GB per hour. Generally speaking, the smaller the file, the worse the picture quaity.
ProRes is a good choice for editing since it contains I-frame only frames and is of excellent quality. For viewing only, H.264 is an excellent choice due to the high quality images and small data files.
Just as a little experiment to test for what you're saying, I exported a 3-minute long file edited in ProRes in FCP in two formats: Uncompressed 10-bit, and Current Settings. The former put out a nearly 5GB file, whereas the latter was less than 1GB. If there is no improvement in the quality by exporting an "uncompressed" file, then that's five times the file size for nothing. And in fact, it winds up being a big liability when I convert this file to h.264 for the web and need it to be as small as possible. This was a very helpful discussion. Thanks.
Fully Uncompressed Quicktime format
