Cow and grass while exporting?!

[Captain Mench]

Congratulations, you have met Bruce… our pet Yak. He comes around now and again just to say hi. Don’t worry about him and for goodness sakes, DON’T feed him!!!

As for your other problem (not that Bruce is a problem…) what type of computer do you have and what type of video are you compressing to and from?

No — it shouldn’t take that long. How are your drives setup? Are you using your system drive for keeping your captured material?

We’ll need a bit more information of your set up.

CaptM

[David Roth weiss]

Bruce has never visited me in nearly eleven months of Mac ownership. Think I can get my money back?

[Captain Mench]

He is kind of SHIFTy that way. You’ve got to remove his SHIFTy-ness.

Uh-oh, have I said too much? No… THEY WON’T TAKE ME ALIVE!

CaptM

[Davellis]

HI, thanks for the response. I’m working on a G5 dual 1.8 ghz, and I’m using mp4 footage (it’s for a private function and some of the content has been ripped from wildlife dvd’s). The original easy setup settings were configured for dv pal anamorphic, and since then there is no dv pal footage, but a mix of pal dvd content in the mp4 and quicktime movie format.

I can’t access compressor at the moment so cannot export as mpeg2. The video needs to be displayed on a large plasma, and is video only (no graphics or text). As for scratch discs I’m using the network backup externa hard drive to store all the media files.

Hope this helps – I’m getting a bit desperate! the video has to be finished by thursday evening!

thanks again for any help,

Dave

[Davellis]

ps – I’ve just read about unchecking the ‘recompress all frames’ option which should help. Maybe I should just be using the quicktime export for simplicity and time saving?

thanks

[John Pale]

“I’m using mp4 footage (it’s for a private function and some of the content has been ripped from wildlife dvd’s). The original easy setup settings were configured for dv pal anamorphic”

Whoa. No wonder you are having trouble. You ripped DVD’s into mp4? Then you put them into a PAL DV timeline?!! Sounds like you are doing the mother of all conversions…no wonder its taking forever. (On top of that, your scratch disc is a network drive, which could slow things down even further, unless you have some sort of XSAN setup) Next time rip your DVD’s into DV footage using MPEG Streamclip or DVDxDV and put them in a DV timeline. (if your DVD’s were NTSC and you want to make them PAL, that adds another layer of complication..you need to convert your footage to PAL first)
Then export a Quicktime reference movie and convert to MPEG2 using Compressor.

I dont know any easy answers for you to make your deadline. Sorry to beat you up when you are down, but you have gotten this wrong on every level, and its not fixable without starting over and doing it right.

[Jaso Allen]

Hi there,

Not to hijack the forum but I don’t know if you guys are on dope or something or if this “Bruce” is real.

Are you serious? I’ve am enthralled – I want to meet Bruce. I must be completely overlooking the obviousness of the SHIFT-y allusion but what do you need to shift?

PLEASE TELL ME – I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you
Jase

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jason Allen] “Not to hijack the forum but I don’t know if you guys are on dope or something or if this “Bruce” is real.

Are you serious? I’ve am enthralled – I want to meet Bruce. I must be completely overlooking the obviousness of the SHIFT-y allusion but what do you need to shift?”

Bruce is real. As Easter Egg from the original development of the software that gets buried deeper and deeper into the App as the rumor is Steve Jobs does not like easter eggs in his software.

You just need to Search for him.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

Now Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Davellis]

OK, well thanks for the advice. It’s getting there slowly, but looks like this has been one of those steep learning curve excercises!

thanks anyway

[Davellis]

PS – i did change the sequence settings to mpeg4, and exported using the uncompressed 8 bit eventually, (compressor wouldn’t open!) but like you said, wrong from the start – live and learn though!