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FCP export problem – sigh…
Hi everybody…
Im a pretty experienced FCP user, but when it comes to exporting my edited material, im just one big doofus… Allright, the footage is recorded on a panasonic hvx200 res:720(dvcproHD)
What I need is a simple quicktime file that I can burn down on a DVD etc. etc…. I normally use export — quicktime conversion — h264… This tends to look allright. But my problem is that whenever the image has deep blacks in it, it gets muddy… When I see it in the fcp canvas it looks fine… Any suggestions to what i’m doing wrong? THANK you so much!
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It is the same when i make a mother file from – export — quicktime movie. -
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Try using compressor, and add a filter to it which lowers the black levels found in Compressor? The Viewer in Compressor will show you the filter applied, and also show you the result without it applied, so would be easy to see what’s what there. Chose file/export/using compressor, and the sequence gets sent to compressor.
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Burning to a DVD-ROM or transcoding to MPEG2 for DVD authoring? Huge difference.
H.264 is a superb release medium but you will probably need to explore the custom settings available in Compressor to maximize your control over the output. H.264 probably has a very different tonal range than your original footage because it is so highly compressed in order to achieve the temporal fidelity.
Sorry I’m not at my FCP machine today to check all this stuff for you but look up some of the QT filters that are available in your options. Try black restore, white restore, and gamma/contrast tweaks. Here’s how I approach these things:
1. Create a short movie that has the range of motion and color issues you’re tyring to solve.
2. Create a preset in Compressor that contains the setting you want to tweak and give it a unique name.
3. Grab a screenshot of the settings using Grab.
4. Keep notes (the easiest way for me to do this is to super a text item that clearly spells out the settings)
5. Repeat but keep creating new an unique presets, don’t modify one thinking you’re going to be able to remember what you did.bogiesan
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You won that round!
bogiesan
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