• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compressor question: inspector settings and FCP sequence settings

  Posted by Joe Jennings on June 16, 2010 at 3:30 pm

  

  I have a few questions about my inspector settings: first…should frame controls be ON? and do you have to match these settings with the corresponding audio clip?

  second…should the output fields be set the way they are or should they be set to progressive knowing I shot 24p? also the de-interlace setting confuses me knowing i shot progressive…this obviously has to relate to something else… does it have to do with lots of movement within the movie??? if there is moderate zooming and panning in the clip… should I have this set differently?

  and finally… rate conversion…whats this all about? should it be set differently to correspond to the de-interlace settings?

  can anybody help me out with understanding this better?

  I have done tests with the movies that I have compressed and after I burn the dvd in dvd studio pro, i am not satisfied with quality.

  Could this be because my viewing monitor is sony bravia 1080 24p HD vs. what compression used?

  I originally shot HDV. 1440 X 1080 24p Here is another screen shot.. of my sequence settings in FCP does this look right…or is there something not correct? the quicktime compressions settings are making me concerned.

  

  thanks
  joe

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  Jerry Hofmann

  June 16, 2010 at 5:19 pm

  Leave the frame controls off for a SD DVD. The reason the DVD doesn’t look so great may well be that you’re using a flat screen HD monitor to view it with… up conversion has to happen in order for your SD DVD to be played on an HD TV set, and that varies a TON with which equipment is being used for this.

  Got a way to check it on a SD set? that will tell the story here.

  Jerry

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  Joe Jennings

  June 16, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  Thanks. i will try that.
  Does that mean that they should remain ON for hd projects? and do you have advise as far as the FCP sequence settings… quicktime conversion settings specifically? do my settings look correct or should they match what i shot in?

  thanks
  joe

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