Apple Color 1.5 User Manual
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• Alternately, you can convert 2K and 4K DPX and Cineon image sequences into
finishing-quality QuickTime media files by simply choosing ProRes 4444 as the QuickTime
export codec.
• If your project media is in the QuickTime format, but you want to output a series of
Cineon or DPX image sequences, you can do this conversion as well.
The timecode of converted DPX or Cineon film scans is copied to the new media that’s
created. This allows you to track the correspondence between the QuickTime clips you
generate, and the original image sequences from which they came. This conversion uses
the following rules:
• Timecode header metadata in DPX or Cineon files, if present, is converted into a
timecode track in each converted QuickTime file.
• If there is no timecode header data in the DPX or Cineon files, then the frame numbers
used in the filename of the image sequence are converted into timecode and written
to the timecode track of the converted QuickTime files. (For more information, see
Required Image Sequence Filenaming
.)
• If a directory containing DPX or Cineon image sequences has the reel number of those
sequences as its name (highly recommended), that number will be used as the reel
number of the converted QuickTime files.
When converting from Cineon and DPX to high definition or standard definition QuickTime
video (and vice versa), Color automatically makes all necessary color space conversions.
Log media is converted to linear, and Rec. 701 and 601 color spaces are taken into account.
To convert Cineon or DPX image sequences to QuickTime media
1
Create a new, empty project. (For more information, see
.)
2
Using the file browser, select the folder that contains all of the shots you want to convert,
and click the Import Folder button to edit every shot within that folder into the Timeline.
When you import a folder of shots, all shots that are contained by subfolders within the
selected folder are also imported. This makes it convenient to import an entire nested
hierarchy of image sequence media that has been organized into multiple individual
folders. For more information about importing media into the Timeline, see
Media Directly into the Timeline
.
3
Open the Project Settings tab of the Setup room, and do the following:
a
Click Project Render Directory, choose a render directory for the converted media, then
click Choose.
b
Choose QuickTime from the Render File Type pop-up menu.
c
Choose a resolution from the Resolution Presets pop-up menu.
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Chapter 4
Importing and Managing Projects and Media