Exporting using compressor

[David Roth weiss]

Will,

Bellow is a screen grab of the A/V Attributes tab in the Compressor Inspector. As you can see, my source happens to be full raster 1920×1080, yours will be different, but I want to see it, so please post a screen shot of your A/V Attributes tab. If you don’t know how to do it post images yet here on the Cow now’s your chance to figure it out, and this will wind up being an excellent exercise for you. It’s really crucial in helping to solve issues here on the Cow.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Will Gaffney]

Hi David, thanks for getting back to me. Finally figured out how to upload an image here!

Does this help you at all?

Will

[David Roth weiss]

Okay Will, now that I know the basics of what you’ve got, tell me exactly what you want. You said you’d tried HDV, MPEG, and DV, but since we’re going to quit “trying” actually “do it,” you need to let me know what your first choice is. For the record, most pros these days typically deliver h.264.

I have taken a complete different route over the last months, and I deliver HD demos to my clients via Vimeo. Are familiar with Vimeo? I can tell you how to do that if you’d like, or I can show you how to get what you want out of Compressor, you make the call.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Will Gaffney]

Thank you so much for your help david!

There are 3 separate tasks that I need to complete for this project. I need to be able to export the finished product for Web, SD DVD & HD DVD.

Right now my priority is the web upload as my client is currently in another country and I need to get them a sample. I’ve heard of vimeo, and seen clips online with the vimeo logo on it but had no experience with it.

[David Roth weiss]

There is no FCS HD DVD solution now, so let’s deal with web first, then SD DVD. To make a 16×9 h.264 at

1. Export your a self contained movie at current settings with File>>Export>>Quicktime Movie (do not check the render all frames box).

2. Drag the QT onto the batch drop zone in Compressor

3. Now, select the H.264 preset from the Settings tab (see below) and drag and drop that onto the target area.

4. Click to on that setting in the batch area to select it and to load it in the Inspector.

5. In the Geometry tab of the Inspector change the Frame Size to 25%

6. Hit Submit and go… That’s all there is to it.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Will Gaffney]

That worked an absolute treat!! Thank you sooooooooooo much!!!

Now that this thread is open, do you think you might be able to tell me what settings to use prior to DVD authoring?

Thanks again!
Will

[David Mcgiffert]

Will,

Next thing you know David will probably pull up outside your house
and come in and fix everything. (joke not a slam)

David,
I continue to be amazed and impressed with your willingness to help.
I include myself in the long list of people who have benefited.

[David Roth weiss]

[Will Gaffney] “think you might be able to tell me what settings to use prior to DVD authoring?
“

1. Use the same self-contained QT you used before
2. This time use the preset “DVD: Best Quality 120 Minutes — it contains both an audio preset (Dolby Digital AC3) and a video preset (MPEG-2 M2V). Just drag and drop the folder, it applies both presets at once.
“
3. Once applied, click on the MPEG-2 setting to highlight it and to load in the Inspector.
4. Check in the Encoder tab of the Inspector window to insure that Aspect Ratio is set to 16:9 — if not, first click on that silly icon on the right that looks like a gear to enable the dropdown and change to 16:9.
5. Change Video Format to PAL since you’re in PAL land.
6. That’s it… hit submit.
7. Afterward, use the M2V video and the AC3 audio files in DVDSP to author your DVD — make sure you set the setting “pan and scan & letterbox” which sets the flag to make your DVD display 16×9 on widescreen monitors and letterboxed on 4×3 monitors.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[David Roth weiss]

[David McGiffert] “Next thing you know David will probably pull up outside your house
“

In fact, I’m outside your house right now David…

Thanks for your kind words…

BTW, our esteemed Cow leader (and chairman of the cud), has suggested to me that we L.A. boys should meet someday. Let’s chat some time off the Cow. You can reach me at drw at drwfilms dot com.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Will Gaffney]

Thats great! Thank you so much David!

In the end, my main problem was that I was trying to export from FCP using Compressor, instead of exporting the MOV directly from FCP and importing that into compressor!

Thank you again for all your help! No doubt I’ll be calling on your services again one day soon!

Will