• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor screws up frame rates

  Posted by Tom Wolsky on October 20, 2006 at 5:00 pm

  Any one seen this beauty? Trying to uprez DVCPRO anamorphic material shot in PAL 25fps to DVCPRO HD 720p30 using Compressor. I specify the codec DVCPRO HD 720p60. I set the frame rate to 29.97 to match the rest of my material. It processes the material. The only problem is the material is processed at 25fps. This is absurd. How could basic frame rate processing not be handled properly by Apple’s software engineers? This is with 5.1.2 and Compressor 2.3. QuickTime is 7.1.3.

  All the best,

  Tom

  George Strother replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  October 20, 2006 at 5:05 pm

  Tom,

  I feel your pain. Wait until you try to export an ac3 file from 5.1 surround trks using Compressor — the Apple engineers messed that up too. And, just try to find a workaround…

  DRW
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  Tom Wolsky

  October 20, 2006 at 5:05 pm

  This happens either using Compressor or when processing with direct export from FCP. Really blows that basic stuff like this can’t be got right.
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  David Roth weiss

  October 20, 2006 at 5:09 pm

  Tom,

  What surprises me is that it seems no one else is reporting these errors to Apple.

  DRW
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  George Strother

  October 20, 2006 at 5:31 pm

  I’m having a problem with basic playback of HDV 720p30 plus .mov’s, .wmv’s and just Export as QT Movie from HDV in FCP 5.1.2 and Compressor. The problem exists in my DP2.0 PPC, but also in a DP3.0 Intel G5 at the local Apple Store and a DP3.0 Intel G5 that I tried in another producers studio.

  The guys at the Apple store were amazed this was happening and tech support says they have never heard of the problem.

  HDV captured as HDV or AIC stutters and skips on canvas, viewer, cinema preview and in QT 7.1.3. OK, those are all just peviews, but the same skips are embedded in Export as QT, and compressed video. Same thing is happening with new and old DV captures, but a lot less skipping than HDV.

  Captured with three different cameras on three different systems by three different experienced operators.

  How can this happen so consistently in my little world and be completely un-noticed by the billions of other FCP users and never reported to Customer Support except by me?

  How does this stuff happen at all?

  George

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