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Ideal Quicktime to Show Client Prores 422 sequence?
Hi guys
I’d appreciate any thoughts you can offer on my FCP6 question regarding exporting to Quicktime below.
I need to export a ProRes 422 edited sequence from FCP6 to show on Quicktime on an up-to-date Intel iMac (which doesn’t have FCP installed).
How might I get the best quality for the Quicktime file I’ll be previewing?
Again, any thoughts appreciated, and thanks for reading.
Warm regards
Peter
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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H264 Play around with the compression/file size etc
Select AAC audio too
Peter
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Brilliant Peter thanks :o)
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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Got my H264 created successfully and it looks great but the audio ‘clicks’ for me every couple of seconds.
To play the file H264 file I had highlighted both the H264 file and the AAC 128Kbps.m4a file, right clicked and chose to open with Quicktime.
I noticed that the H264 file originally seems to come with PCM sound – perhaps there is a way to remove the PCM sound as it might be conflicting with the AAC sound?
Just noticed in H264 for audio there is enabled, disabled and passthrough – will tinker with disabled and passthrough. Am I on the right track?
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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The AAC sound opens in a separate Quicktime player than the H264 Quicktime player for me.
H264 has sound disabled – need a way of getting that good AAC audio onto the H264 file in the Quicktime player.
Any quick tips would be really appreciated.
All the best
Peter
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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BTW for speed I’m using a Quick Cluster (7 cores) in Compressor.
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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Fantastic!
Solved it! Noticed in Compressor in the Inspector for H264 that I can simply switch the audio from PCM to AAC without having to actually add in a new, separate AAC Setting.
Can relax now! Hope you’re all having a great week and looking forward to Snow Leopard!
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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Ach – still getting faint crackling when i play the H264 file in Quicktime.
I exported the ProRes 422 movie as self-contained Quicktime file in FCP6.
I dropped this file into Compressor, chose H264 and AAC audio (instead of the default PCM audio).
Any tips about what I could do to solve this would be really appreciated.
Warm regards
Peter
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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What I’ve done when needing to send high-resolution review copies with short round-trip-times is to use the Photo JPEG codec at 50-75%. File sizes are larger than h264, but smaler than ProRes and the encoding time is faster than realtime. Playback also works on all systems with out hassel of installing a ProRes codec.
Regarding crackling sounds I sadly can’t help… I tend to use QuickTime player for quick and dirty h264 output or Telestream’s Epsiode for “mastering” output.
Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Communication
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Okay solved again – just put the AAC audio setting to Best.
Now just one more problem – I have some fast sports sequences in my edit and they appear very blurry/tracey.
Is there a way I can remove the blur please?
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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Thanks for your kind advice Eric
Upon exporting from FCP to a self-contained QT a bad blurring/mild tracing effect during the fast moving sequences is already noticeable – I checked my export setting is correctly Top First and have fiddled with settings but still getting a blur during fast sequences.
2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5
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