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Matching footage via transcoding

Matching footage via transcoding

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Matching footage via transcoding

- In a shoot, it's very easy to end up with multiple file types. Now, in this particular shoot, we were in a professional studio. So, the studio cameras and the Blackmagic pocket cameras were both recording the flavors of ProRes, but we were using ProRes LT on the smaller cameras and for the overhead angle and the chase cam, and we were using ProRes on the other angles. What this meant is that while both of those are compatible, they're not identical. Some multi camera tools are going to want you to have the exact same codec. Now, ProRes flavors usually mix together, but we did have that angle from GoPro. Well, it might be necessary to transcode everything to line up. Let me show you an example on how to transcode that GoPro footage into ProRes. I've launched Compressor, this is a program from Apple that'll make it easy to convert things. So we'll go to the current project here and click Add File. Now, I can navigate to those GoPro clips. So let's go to that Transfer drive, locate the…

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