• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Export trouble

  Posted by John Desay on February 4, 2009 at 6:25 pm

  Hi guys,

  I’m new to this forum so just a quick question for anyone who might be able to help….
  I’m using Final cut Studio 2 on new iMac,2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,4GB RAM,G2 RAID.
  I recently cut a short of 23 mins in duration and wanted to encode with Compressor to make a master DVD for screening with DVD Studio Pro.I didn’t export from FCP using Compressor as i’ve heard that if
  you export using QuickTime and not create a self contained movie that the reference file will encode much quicker.I exported the QT file using PHOTO-JPEG at 98% to ensure maximum quality from FCP.
  My Compressor setting are as follows…

  VIDEO FORMAT

  FORMAT: PAL
  FIELD DOMINANCE: PROGRESSIVE

  QUALITY

  AVGE BIT RATE: 6.2
  MAX BIT RATE: 7.7

  FRAME CONTROLS: ON

  RESZ FILTER BEST
  OUTP FIELDS PROG
  DEINTER BEST

  RATE CONVERS
  BETTER

  I thought these settings would be fine to ensure best quality but after 2 days my batch History remains at 202:16:20..
  Should it take this long for a 23 minute short or am i doing something drastically wrong?
  Any help would be much appreciated..

  Cheers,

  john

  Rafael Amador replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rafael Amador

  February 5, 2009 at 4:18 am

  [John Desay] ” didn’t export from FCP using Compressor as i’ve heard that if
  you export using QuickTime and not create a self contained movie that the reference file will encode much quicker.I”
  A self-contained or a Reference movie will take the same time. What will take much longer time is when you send directly from the FC time-line. In this case, if you make a Double-pass encoding, everything needs to be rendered twice. So this can takes double time.

  [John Desay] ” exported the QT file using PHOTO-JPEG at 98% to ensure maximum quality from FCP. “
  You shouldn’t have used Photo-JPEG 98%. This codec over 75% is RGB.
  What kind of footage are you using?

  [John Desay] “I thought these settings would be fine to ensure best quality but after 2 days my batch History remains at 202:16:20..
  Should it take this long for a 23 minute short or am i doing something drastically wrong? “
  Yes. Must be something wrong.
  What I recommend you is to make a bit of maintenance to your system.
  Get yourself DiskWarrior or TechTools and rebuild your directories.
  make sure that your machine is optimized before start to blame FC or Compressor.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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