H.264 from RedCine-X...What is the optimal data rate?

[Von Thomas]

What are you then using as source in Compressor? I suppose it doesn't take R3D, so do you use a Prores format to render out from there?
Or would it work with the Quicktime Proxies (reference movies) that you render out from RCX?

Mathieu,

I normally produce ProRes 422 LT, then send that to compressor.

Von

[Adam Rosenbloom]

Does anyone else have trouble limiting the data rate for H264 when using RCX-Pro? I'm on build 14, and if I set Quicktime to export 480x240 (for quick reference to send to transcriber) and limit the data rate to 500kbps, the file comes out larger than it should be, and quicktime says it's about 2,500kbps.

I'm on on mac pro, 10.5.8.

EDIT: Figured it out. Redcine is in KiloBytes (KB) per second not kilobits (kb) per second. Silly me.

Does anyone know how to compress audio in redcine to something like AAC?