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best codec for editing SD for later on
Hi, everyone…
I’m producing a daily news show in nogales,
and get a lot of footage some it I compress to MP4 and H.264
for sotring and use later on as B-roll or archive images that could be re used
but sometimes when I get that compressed video to FCP into the timeline
itt gets slow on the viewer and gets fuzzy then the beachball appears
and seconds later FCP closes down.so I probably need to use a better codec but which one could it be?
if you have input about please let me know…
Hello from Mexico….
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9 Replies
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H.264 is a computer hog. What Mac do you have? Is the processor(s) fast enough, do you have plenty of RAM, etc.?
Ed
OT- P.S. I remember an 8 or 9 year old kid serving cervezas to me in Nogales, and his boss/dad/uncle smacking him and taking the tip we gave the boy. We saw him outside later and sneaked him a dollar (he liked that). Oh, and the cheap Zapotecan blankets too (found out later they weren’t wool, but a polyester, no wonder they were so cheap). 🙂 -
I see in your profile you have a G5 Dual2g. Apple says this about H.264 and G5s:
>>>For example, a full HD movie (1920×1080, 8 Mbps, 24 fps) encoded with H.264 plays back beautifully on a dual Power Mac G5.<<< Are you exceeded that rate when you compress? Ed -
I havent experienced this on the G5 setup…
but I have this problem with a Mac Pro set up, where I have 5 gigs of RAM, an external G disk and a AJA io la…the problem happens in the viewer it gets real slow and when I try to play it to choose an in or out point it gets fuzzy and then beachball and the it closes down.
Hello from Mexico….
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h264 is a web delivery codec, you need an ‘editing’ codec such as Prores or any other codec listed in the easy setups.
Jeremy
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Depending of the format you are delivering you can use MPGStreamclip to convert your MP4/H264 to a more edit friendly.
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Im editing in NTSC DV and uncompressed 10 bit via AJA IO LA…
there are some clips I compress to MP4 and H.264 within 5000kbs and have good results because I just go around those images in a two months span so I cant just hold them in my HDD in DV for size sakes.
but the thing I dont get is way it get fuzzy in the viewer sometimes and makes FCP crash…
Hello from Mexico….
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Mpeg streamclip is great have been using it for a while now…
Hello from Mexico….
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[Daniel Serrano] “but the thing I dont get is way it get fuzzy in the viewer sometimes and makes FCP crash…
“Don’t know what to tell you. FCP does not work well with h264. You will have problems as you are finding out.
My suggestion is to get more hard drives for archiving or perhpas burn to DVD or mutiple DVDs.
Jeremy
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thanks everyone..
guess if I get a H264 or mp4 file, now I first convert it to ntsc DV for my needs…
thanks
Hello from Mexico….
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