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MPEG Streamclip – best setting to bring into FCP?
i’ve tried a few options, “export to QT”, “demux to M2V and aiff”, but not sure if these are optimum for bringing into FCP for a little editing, then to Compressor and DVD SP. any ideas?
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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4 Replies
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Mortimer,
Export to QT is about it. Since DVDs are compressed typically at about 25 to 1 you’re not gonna get a silk purse, but it shouldn’t look horrible either if the original was profesionally encoded.
DRW
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Dpending on your hardware, the best option would be to export as Apple uncompressed 8bit 4:2:2. The audio will come across as uncompressed PCM 16bit 48kHz.
You could export as 10bit, but as DVD video is (correct me if I’m wrong) 4:2:0 you would not be gaining much.
Second best option is comman-option-e – this exports a DV file, with uncompressed audio as above.
HTH
Tom Ackroyd -
Set your ins and outs, export as quicktime using dv/dv ntsc, and uncheck reinterlace chroma, set it to the highest quality, and you should have a decent looking piece of video (This is if you aren’t running uncompressed video). Bring it into final cut pro and you shouldn’t have to render. If going to dvd just do a straight high qualitty mpeg2 conversion, it will retain all data from the .VOB file. This is pretty much just based on trial and error. seems to work well though.
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BEAUTIFUL! this was the method that worked best. thanks so much for the pointers. anyone who uses Streamclip should bookmark your post!
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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