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editing in HD and outputting to SD
Help! I’ve looked at a dozen forums and manuals and help pages and I’m stuck. I am a beginner, but this just shouldn’t be this hard. I shot using the HV20, I’m using FC 5.1.4, captured in HDV 1080i60 and now want to output in SD. I’ve tried a bunch of different solutions: First, I tried exporting with the compressor and got the “unable to connect to background process” error message, so I did what Apple suggested and deleted the compressor and Apple Qmaster files and reinstalled them with updates and I still got the “unable to connect error message; next I tried exporting using quicktime conversion with the png compressor and it was going to take 4 days to process; lastly I tried the “bonsai method” which told me to create a time line that was DV50, changing easy setup to “DV50 PAL 48 kHz Anamorphic,” though it was telling me that an easy setup button would be in the sequence settings window, which it wasn’t, so I changed it by going to Final Cut/easy setting, I then made sure the field dominace was set to upper and that the motion filtering quality setting was faster (linear), then I copied and pasted my mastter sequence into the DV50 timeline. One question that I had was do I need to then render this new DV50 sequence? I tried and it was going to take 4 hours. Also in the sequence settings am I suppose to change the processor to something or the apsect ratio? I didn’t and then output as a quicktime movie and ended up with a 21 GB file. Is there a simple way to do this that will give me the best quality? Thanks, sorry if I’m long-winded and an uninformed newbie.
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WOW so many time wrong with what you are doing. You are making a PAL SD version STOP that and through away anything you have from that process.
Just Export a self contained movie with Current Settings (don’t worry about the size of the file, take that file into Compressor and use a m2v preset, if you tell me what your TRT is I can give you exact settings but I’m going to guess that your movie is about 90 minutes.
NTSC, 29.97 and make sure it is set to UPPER dominance.
Change the encode settings to CBR at 6 Mbps
Do not turn on Frame Control.You need to encode the audio as ac3 also.
Working with HDV is a slow process but this will be the fastest.
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thanks, really appreciate it. had a feeling i was making things a little more difficult than it needed to be. TRT is 1:57:07;15
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OK, now the only issue is the bad compressor in FC 5. How do I fix that? I keep getting the “unable to connect to background process” error message. I’ve tried deleting all the files and reinstalling and it didn’t fix the problem. I tried using “Compressor Repair” and I get a message that says “unsupported Compressor version… running in limited mode. Also, I think there is an issue with Qmaster. Isn’t it supposed to start up when I boot? When I look at the activity monitor there is no Qmaster. I’ve seen people say that there is just a bug with this in FC5. Don’t know what to do? Thanks
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Try some of these steps and see if they work for you:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/compressor_error_unable_to_connect_to_background_process.htmlMy software:
FCS Maintenance Pack – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
FCP Versioner – Backs up Final Cut Pro projects to XML and creates changelists for each revision
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Hi Jon, Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried all of the solutions in the link you’ve provided. I’ve reinstalled twice. Used the Compressor Repair tool, which is what gives me the message “Unsupported Compressor version… running in limited mode.” I’m at my wit’s end.
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