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Color Wheel for Walter
I’m doing a special project for Chldren’s Hospital of Atlanta whose deliverable is a Motion JPEG file ina 2559 x 480 resolution. I figure Walter Biscardi will be all over this because it is anything but ordinary. The project will be displayed using a computer display system. Everything was shot in HDV with the camera rotated 90 degrees to give us maximum horizontal resolution. The display is a bit like a video wall but set on its side and then only the center three monitors will be seen. The three monitors are each 853 x 480. The deliverables were not defined by us but rather by the company doing the display and we did a test with them that was successful.
We have edited the project usine this special resolution and had no problems other than having to render everything. The project involved doing a credit roll of donor’s names over background footage. In our test we discovered that it was best to use PhotoShop to generate the text instead of doing that using the text generator in Final Cut. We did that using numerous pages of text. One of the sequences uses 64 photoshop files in a 480 x 2559 resolution rotated on its side in Final Cut.
Now we are exporting the sequences using Compressor but every time I try I’m getting the proverbial color wheel (wait state). I have a Fast SATA drive array (1 TB) that is nearly empty and a 2.6 dual G5 processor with 4Gb of memory. All other programs are closed.
What is going on? How can I solve this?
Richard Martz
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Sorry Richard, not a clue on that one. Have you just let the wheel spin for a while. That is a sign that the Mac is working on something. Let it spin for 10 to 15 minutes and if it’s still spinning, try the Force Quit command. If it doesn’t say “Not Responding” next to Compressor in the dialog box, let Compressor keep running.
With a frame size like that, it might be normal for Compressor to take a long time to gather everything up for compression. I really don’t know.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Hi Richard,
Have you tried exporting as a Quicktime File? As Walter mentioned, Compressor may be really struggling with the format. Maybe try exporitng a short test file to ensure all is working properly.
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troy@crossmediacorp.com
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Hey Thanks for the information. I was able to wait a while and got Compressor to finally take off. What I discovered was that the files are HUGE! When I use the Motion JPEG 100 setting, the file for a 3 minute title sequence is 7.35 GB. I’m going to try the Motion Jpeg 75 setting to see if that will take up less room. We have two segments that are around 3-4 minutes as well as a longer segment that is 14 minutes. That longer one would take over 25 GB of space. So I’m beginning to get a bit concerned about the storage requirement and the ability of the computer they will be using to handle the playback.
I think I figured out the problem with the rotating rainbow (sounds almost pleasant when described like that)…my system drive had gotten pretty trashed with lots of old files over time. Cleaning it up really helped and now no more rainbow. Usually it’s the simple stuff that gets me.
Thanks for the help and kind suggestions.
Richard Martz
MagicMartz MediaFinal Cut Pro HD
Kona LH
After Effects
PhotoShop
Illustrator
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Yeah, why the motion jpeg? That’s going to be ridiculously huge. I would think that h.264 would be a great qt format for this sort of thing. High quality at high compression. You see it on the Apple QT movie clips all the time. Their HD format clips look great and they’re usually a couple hundred megs. And since you have control over the playback machine all you have to do is make sure it has the latest QT for playback, no?
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If you put the camera on it side you did not get the maximum horizontal resolution instead it was less than if you shot it right side up.
Maybe you were looking for more vertical resolution?
Tony Salgado
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Why use compressor when you can use After Effects to render out the Motion JPEG 100 format. You could export your self contained or not QT, load up After Effects after you purhcase and install nucleo (https://www.gridironsoftware.com/Nucleo/) and watch AE crunch it faster then compressor ever could.
Just an Idea…..
Andy Edwards
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