Hi all
My PC Windows 7 workflow is this:
1. MLV captured on 5Dii (usually 1872 x 796 @ 2:35:1 ratio)
edited for correct frame size2. MLV converted to DNGs via MLV Mystic
3. Import DNGs into Lightroom 4 to grade
4. Export from Lightroom 4 as TIFFS/Jpegs
5. Import as Image Sequence in Quicktime 7 Pro (PC non ProRes! ) to export image sequence as H.264 or other
6. Import video files into Sony Vegas 10 to edit/cut and add audio
7. Final render (and upscale to 1920 x 816) from Sony Vegas to master
8. Upload to Vimeo
My main problem at the mo is with
step 5 - outputing from Quicktime Pro to a suitable format for editing in Sony Vegas
Does anyone have any suggestions about what codec to use in Quicktime. I have been using H.264 @ 20000kbps and then editing in Vegas and then rendering out at another H.264 @ 20000kbps. However, I sometimes find alot of "mush" and lost detail by the time it ends up on Vimeo - I'm aware of the compression added on upload. I can't help but thinking I'm losing something somewhere in the workflow - the most obvious place to me is the Quicktime conversion H.264 @20000kbps conversion.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
ML developers are proper hardcore btw