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How do I convert all my HDR footage from H.264 to AIC?

Hi everyone.

I am using FCP 7 and need to edit a piece with HDR footage H.264 ..I read on the forum that I need to convert to AIC.. ( I am getting a lot of dropped frames on the original format).. Now, I downloaded the Mpeg Streamclip, but I have a lot of clips to convert to AIC and it is taking too long and a whole lot more space.

Question: since my output is the web, can I lower the quality of the compression to 50% to make the whole process faster?

Any suggestions besides converting to AIC so I can edit faster ? Can I do this on the compressor? I never used it..

Thanks in advance

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 1:57 AM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2016 9:30 AM

Wherever you saw that you should convert to AIC is WRONG! Sorry, that's a HORRIBLE codec. Noisy, icky. No no no. You need to convert to ProRes 422. And there's no way to lower the data rate on that format either. FCP is very finicky about the exact formats it works with. The file sizes will increase, by a lot....fair warning.


Compressor will do this.

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Feb 1, 2016 9:30 AM in response to fromhaleiwa

Wherever you saw that you should convert to AIC is WRONG! Sorry, that's a HORRIBLE codec. Noisy, icky. No no no. You need to convert to ProRes 422. And there's no way to lower the data rate on that format either. FCP is very finicky about the exact formats it works with. The file sizes will increase, by a lot....fair warning.


Compressor will do this.

How do I convert all my HDR footage from H.264 to AIC?

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