Re: [Avid-L2] Re: QT Ref comes out HD

brilliant suggestion. thanks
Lou
On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:42 PM, David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can fool the Avid into creating an SD Quicktime by cutting a
> blank SD title across the top V track. Just make a title without
> text, add a track and cutt it across for the length of the sequence.
> Then export a QT as avid source (usually takes less than real time).
> This will export an SD quicktime without having to transcode, but as
> it is Avid codec, will need to be converted to something more
> generally friendly for distribution. I use Quicktime Pro to do that
> on another computer with the Avid codecs loaded, so I can get on
> with other work on the Avid.
>
> Dave Birrell
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
> >
> > All a QT reference file does is point to the original media. That
> is why it is a fast output. If your media is HD, then your QT Ref
> file is HD.
> >
> > You need ot make a self contained QT, which will convert in the
> process. And it won't be fast with HDV.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Lou Wirth <loutv@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well my QT ref is HD. Obviously making QTs takes much longer for
> > > review cuts so I think converting the HDV material is the way to
> go.
> > > Have not done that before. Is it simply transcoding?
> > >
> > > Lou
> > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Dave Spraker wrote:
> > >
> > > > This does not make sense. You cannot export a QuickTime
> reference
> > > > movie of
> > > > HDV or any other Long GOP media.
> > > >
> > > > Export a full QuickTime movie at your sequence resolution, or
> redig
> > > > the HDV
> > > > as SD, or convert those sections to SD.
> > > >
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
> On
> > > > Behalf Of
> > > > Lou Wirth
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:53 PM
> > > > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] QT Ref comes out HD
> > > >
> > > > No, actually its DV.
> > > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Wes Plate wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 1/29/10 1:31 PM, "Lou Wirth" <loutv@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I have an SD project. Had to load in some HDV material so I
> > > > changed
> > > > > > the project format, digitized, and went back to 30NTSC.
> Finished
> > > > the
> > > > > > sequence with the SD clips and some HDV clips. Now when I
> export a
> > > > > QT
> > > > > > ref (even when I select 4x3 or Native Dimensions) I get a
> 1920 x
> > > > > 1080
> > > > > > QT movie. Looks like crap when I compress for review. So
> how is
> > > > this
> > > > > > happening? Is this like when you have a DV seq but have
> 1:1 titles
> > > > > so
> > > > > > you can not export 720x480 because Avid defaults to the
> highest
> > > > > res in
> > > > > > the seq? Should I transcode the HDV material down to SD?
> MC 4.04
> > > > >
> > > > > The first clip in your timeline is HD?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Wes Plate
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> > > > > http://www.automaticduck.com
>
> > > >
> > > > Lou Wirth Productions
> > > > 500Tamal Plaza, Suite 522
> > > > Corte Madera, CA 94925
> > > > www.louwirth.com
> > > > 415-924-9411p
>
>
>

Lou Wirth Productions
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