Conversion

How can I convert Sony 4 K to Pro Res 422 HQ? I can't afford Vegas Pro.

would this do?

$20 Sony tool for managing their media
conversion to ProRes is part of the package

[www.sonycreativesoftware.com]


nick

Thanks, but according to the manual, if I convert to anything, it will have a watermark, and only 30 sec of audio unless I buy another product. I guess I just wasted $20. Thanks.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/contentbrowser/fileformats

This is a nice list of gotchas and notquiteenoughs to make that $20 seem like a little misleading. If you want to convert to another frame size, or convert anything for that matter, pay more...

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*1 Rovi plug-in "Conversion Pack for Content Browser" is required, only when parameters (resolution, bit rate, frame rate etc.) are different between source and destination files.

ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!

sorry, i didn't see that, either.

nm

I do not want to convert to any other size, just something I can cut in FCP 7. Also, I don't want to wait long for rendering all the time so I'd like to have something like Pro Res 422 HQ, which is what the rest of the footage is. The software does convert to XDCam EX which will work in FCP, but it only does it one at a time, and then I'll have to send that to Compressor to get Pro Res 422. There are so many programs that do that for Red camera files, or any of the other popular cameras out now so I find it hard to believe that Sony does not have one.

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BigBobFCPMan
The software does convert to XDCam EX which will work in FCP, but it only does it one at a time, and then I'll have to send that to Compressor to get Pro Res 422 [HQ].

It sounds like you have solved your problem, except for a bit of bother, if this routine preserves the quality of your original. Consider: in what codec, at what bitrate, is your 4K original; in what codec, at what bitrate, is the XDCam EX thing you refer to?

Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany

"I do not want to convert to any other size, just something I can cut in FCP 7"

4k would be too large for FCP7
if your original footage was HD, then Resolve Lite (which is free) would probably work for you


"It sounds like you have solved your problem, except for a bit of bother"

too much bother, i'd say.

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Nick Meyers
4k would be too large for FCP7

Nick is right. I thought BigBobFCPMan wanted to edit strictly online, hence his choice of ProRes HQ, and I trusted FCP7's documentation that it could handle 4K, except without "full real-time playback".
I just made a 4096x2304 ProRes HQ and put it on a RAM disk to test FCP7. Playback in the canvas was smooth, but horrors: the colors changed between stopped and running -- gamma increased.
I've a MacPro with 6-core 3.33 Gz and HD 5770 graphics card. Maybe on a stronger system FCP7 can do a little better with 4K. Maybe not.

Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany