• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  D5 to DVD

  Posted by Matthew Javier on January 22, 2008 at 12:15 am

  Hey, Everyone

  I captured DVCPRO HD off of a 23.98 D5 and I ultimately needed it to go to a DVD.

  – In my sequence settings, why does the compressor choose DVCPRO HD 1080p30 and not DVCPRO HD 1080pA24?
  – A resulting H.264 QT has a better picture result than exporting a QT movie into Compressor. Why?
  – Can I digitize NTSC off of the D5, go to an H.264 file and expect the same quality as I would have gotten from a larger captured file?

  Matthew Javier replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  January 22, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  You have me a bit confused, but Hey, I’ll give it a try.

  Sequence settings are set by you, or by FCP 6 when you first put a clip into a sequence whose settings don’t match the source material’s properties.

  What did you use as a capture preset? THAT is what determines what the properties of the source footage are. If you don’t remove the pulldown in a 23.98 shoot, then the captured files will be 30fps… just as they are recorded in the first place. P2 cameras can actually make 24fps files, but no tape machines can play back true 24fps files… all 23.98 recorded video is actually 30 fps with a pulldown pattern added to spread the 24 frames over 30… Either file (with pulldown removed or not) will look exactly the same on an external video monitor… it’s just that the 30fps captures will be larger files.

  If you capture at 30fps, you get 30 fps files…

  If you downconvert the HD to SD, you’ll see that the resulting web streams don’t look as good. (but render times will be faster).

  Web streams made from compressor vs directly from FCP should look the same as long as all of the parameters chosen in compressor match those of the settings set in FCP’s export… it’s using the same code as far as I know…

  Jerry

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  Matthew Javier

  January 22, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  I used HD, 23.98 fps, DVCPRO HD – 1080pA24
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  Jerry Hofmann

  January 22, 2008 at 5:55 pm

  Try the easy setup for DVCPROHD 720p24… might be just the ticket.

  Jerry

  Apple Certified Trainer

  Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here

  Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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  Matthew Javier

  January 22, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  great! thanks!

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