4K .MOV Production

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

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Mar 26, 2015 15:12

Hi all -

Perhaps someone can explain, because I'm missing something here. Just out of interest, I tried editing Proile.ini to create a 4K QuickTime MOV file. I have no current need or wish to do this - just investigating.

I followed the normal steps and changed Video Width to 3840 & Video Height to 2160 in Profile.ini... but PDR spewed out a clip that lists itself as "Unknown Format". Even though the VBR was set to 15500000 the produced file is 129kbps, 126 of which is audio!

I've attached the details from the profile.

Either PDR cannot do what I'm asking or I'm missing something that may be obvious to someone else but not to me.

Any suggestions?

Cheers - Tony

Filename	4K MOV Profile.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	888 bytes
Downloaded:	327 time(s)

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SoNic67

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 27, 2014 14:14 Messages: 1308 Offline

Mar 26, 2015 15:45

The .MOV is relying on Apple's QuickTime. For various reasons, Apple won't provide for Windows a 64 bit plug-in or 4K compatibility.

Encode in something else, like h264 mp4. Rename it to .mov.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Mar 26, 2015 16:36

Thanks SoNic67 -

So - it's an Apple restriction. OK - I'll stop investigating.

I even tried various compression options (JPEG, RAW etc) but all I got was clips with beautiful audio & nothing to see!

Cheers - Tony
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SoNic67

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Mar 26, 2015 18:11

Yep, some companies are selling codecs that go around this issue, but in PD is using the free (and cripled) Apple QuickTime.
See here:
http://nofilmschool.com/2014/08/footagestudio-4k-apple-prores-transcoding-video-processor-converter-utility-windows

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Mar 26, 2015 20:53

Ah - one of my go-to reference sites.

I'll attempt to digest it, but I think you've already helped me to stop wasting my time. Thank you!

Cheers - Tony
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