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1920×1080 compressed to 640×480
I’m tearing my hair out.
My web guy wants my 1920×1080 DVCPRO HD video compressed to 640×480, sides cropped for 4×3, running at least 2mbps. He wants a really high quality picture.
First off, whenever I try to export directly from FCP using the crop/letterbox feature, all I get is a squeezed picture. No matter what the setting is. I can’t figure out why. I’m convinced it’s the AJA Kona’s fault. Compressor gives the same results when trying to crop/change the aspect ratio.
After giving up there, I sent my show to a 640×480 project in Motion, resized and cropped, and tried to export using Compressor so I could control the bitrate, but it fails every time with no error message. I don’t know why.
Any thoughts? This seems like it should be so simple. Is anyone else out there doing this type of conversion?
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(crickets)
I feel all alone. Well, I just got my copy FCS 2 today. Maybe the upgrades to compressor will solve my problem.
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Try this…
Export a FC QT, bring that into a new project, easy set up as DV-NTSC.
Bring in your QT, then you can keep it letterboxed or blow it up to do a pan and scan type of thing.
Now obviously, this takes you out of the HD world, and may not be considered “really high quality”.If that is too low of quality for you, I don’t see why you couldn’t eliminate the easy set up, and just make a new sequence at your 640×480, then put your exported QT in.
I do the above step for a client that wants both 1280×1080 HD and 720×480 SD.
I’ve sent both ways, pan&scan and just recently, maintained the letterboxing, they are happy with the results and it doesn’t take too much time on my end. -
Thanks for the reply, Todd. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing so far. I’m simply frustrated because I think I should be able to export from my original sequence. It DOES say HD on the box, you know?
Anyhow, the folks at AJA are replicating our workflow to see if the problem is theirs. I think the ghost in the machine may relate to the native file size.
Thanks again!
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