• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compression

  Posted by Bombonia on January 27, 2006 at 11:21 pm

  Mac OsX 10.3.9
  500mhz G3
  640Mb sdram
  final cut 3
  sony camcorder pal

  Hello again,
  i have compressed a 5min proyect and i got:
  -when using dvPal compression the image quality is very very poor, and takes 1,27 Gb
  -when using Mpeg4 compression, the image quality is very good, takes only 283 Mb,
  but it gets stuck all the time, doesn’t run properly…
  (when compressing, i used the same size and audio on both tests)

  how is that?
  why does it get stuck all the time?
  i did another quick time of the same proyect with no compression at all
  and when i burned it, it also got stucked all the time, and the quality was weird, i mean, poor and wobly kinda… and of course it took more than 4 Gb room.

  any ideas, please?

  thank you, thank you all in advance,
  bombonia

  Matthew Brunn replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matthew Brunn

  January 28, 2006 at 4:15 am

  The PAL DV may look poor on your computer screen, but output the video to a TV monitor and you’ll see good quality video. How was the video shot? Did you use a special frame rate? Interlaced or Progressive? Did you use an FCP “Easy Setup”?

  The video could look bad if you are not used to it and understand the computer gives you a “rough” version of the video to look at on screen. The computer is saving computing cycles for all the other things it’s doing.

  The Mpeg-4 is very processor intensive. Your G3 processor may not be up to the challenge of playing the bit rate of the mpeg you compressed to.

  When you say you “burned it”, how did you burn it? What codec? What program? How did you play it?

  Hope this helps-
  Matthew
  Dual 500 G4
  OSX 10.3.9
  Ram 1.38
  FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3

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