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Exporting to compressor, getting empty mpeg2
So I’m wrapping up post on a feature, and although the road to get here has shown me a bunch of little thorns in FCP and STP, the issue I’m currently most curious about is this:
I’m trying to produce a review disc for the director. I set in and out points in my sequence, choose the sequence and say export to compressor. In compressor I’m choosing the fastest encode, 1 pass, 4:3, etc. I submit the job and go away for a couple hours.
Come back, open it up and watch the first chapter, everything’s fine. We pass the 2nd chapter marker. We pass the first clip in the 2nd chapter marker. It fades to black as it should (it’s the title card), and then…nothing. There’s a wonderful encode of black silence that lasts an hour. Now this isn’t what I cut together, and I don’t think there’s an option to allow compressor to judge the film and decide whether the black would be a better option, so I’m not sure what’s going on.
Yesterday, I made a disc, burned it, checked to make sure it worked in my oldest, most picky DVD player, watched a bit of the first scene and popped it out. Got an unhappy phone call for that one. Today I had to resort to exporting to tape, ’cause I haven’t been able to get a better result. Any ideas? The only plan I have that I haven’t finished trying yet is exporting a self-contained QT file and trying to compress that.
This post, like so much of Creation, is notArt.
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Sounds like there’s something wrong with the media, or the sequence itself…might try exporting a self contained QT movie and encoding that.
Pretty wierd indeed…
Jerry
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