Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1379)

28 Part I Media and Project Management
Updating Projects or Sequences From Final Cut Pro 1.2.1
Older versions of Final Cut Pro and the Apple DV-NTSC and DV-PAL codecs converted
Y´C
B
C
R
video to RGB video whenever rendering was required. The conversion
sometimes resulted in subtle but noticeable shifts in color or intensity. Starting with
version 1.2.5, Final Cut Pro handled color space differently; however, old projects may
still have links to older render files that exhibit the color and intensity shifts.
If you upgrade a project or sequence created in Final Cut Pro 1.2.1 and the codec used
for the sequence (such as Animation or Targa) is not found by the system, the codec in
the Sequence Settings is listed as “Unknown” and “Always Render in RGB” is selected in
the Video Processing tab. If you want to render the sequence in Y´C
B
C
R
(YUV) color
space, you need to change this manually.
To enable YUV processing in a sequence with an unknown codec:
1 Choose Sequence > Settings, then click the General tab.
2 In the QuickTime Video Settings section, choose DV-NTSC or DV-PAL (whichever you
are using) from the compressor pop-up menu.
3 Click the Video Processing tab, then select the YUV rendering option you want to use
for your sequence.
Unless you are doing high end video processing, you will probably want to select
Render in 8-bit YUV.
For more information about rendering in RGB and Y´C
B
C
R
color spaces, see Volume III,
Chapter 24, “Rendering.”