Re: mp4 to prores 422 HQ

Hi Ken,

Is there any advantage of formatting mp4 to 422 HQ? An old question I keep asking. Thanks!

I would ask to what end.

Do you plan on doing chromakey work, color correcting, special effects (effects), titles, compositing work? Do you plan on passing off your project to a Colorist or an Audio guy?

Or will you just be doing basic editing and then exporting?

--ken

Thanks Ken,
Goes through the above list you provided. Lastly DCP for theatrical here. 3D project.

Then I would say yes, go ahead and transcode your video to ProRes HQ.

My 2 cents.

--ken

You're going to 3D DCP but you're originating on MP4? I'd edit in the highest ProRes I could. HQ minimum. I'd go with 4444XQ. And when you drop the MP4 into FCPX it will be converted to ProRes automagically, I'd just change the import settings so that it turns it into 4444XQ for this project.

Backing up a bit.. the MVC decoder with the JVC 3D Camera has settings for mp4 or uncompressed. The original file is mp4/mvc which has to be decoded for editing. Would it be better to uncompress the original MVC mp4 file then go to ProRes 4444XQ? Obviously I need to pull as much out of these files as possible. Thanks for your help!

I'm not familiar with that camera and haven't heard of MVC. I'd just got for whatever gives you the best, least compressed video quality. I'm assuming you've already shot your stuff so just work with what you've got.