Fastest way to export lowest quality video for Dailies??

[Jenna Bliss]

have you tried doing a quicktime conversion using the lowest streaming quality, single pass? H.264 is probably faster than mpeg.

Jenna D Bliss

[Evan Seitz]

No – not yet, but I’ll give it a try!

[David Roth weiss]

[Evan Seitz] “it sometimes takes up to 20 hours (probably due to the burned in timecode)…”

No, it take 20 hours because you’re not rendering first, and because you’re not then exporting a self contained QT to use for the encode to a compressed codec.

Also, h.264 offers the best quality, but it is the slowest of all the compression codecs, so I hate to disagree with Jenna, but stick with your earlier choice of mpeg.

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[Jenna Bliss]

Actually H.264 and MPEG have identical technical content.

Jenna D Bliss

[Evan Seitz]

Correct me if I’m wrong:

1. I should render the entire timeline

2. File -> Export using compressor

3. Select Self Contained

4. Select Mpeg (Lowest settings)

Or do I export out a self contained .mov and then compress into a Mpeg using compressor, etc???

[Shane Ross]

Look at ProxieMill from https://www.imagineproducts.com. It does this in the background, while you are capturing, ingesting…or OFFLOADING the tapeless media. The producers can walk away with dailies on the day of the shoot.

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[David Roth weiss]

1) render the entire timeline
2) export using Export>>Quicktime Movie (current settings)
3 the use that exported file in Compressor or, for even faster encodes, use Streamclip.

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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Gary Askham]

How well do you know Compressor? Do you have a cluster or multicore computer?

If so then the fastest way would be to bring your footage directly into Compressor and export a 320×240 Mpeg1 (fast to encode, compatible with Windows and Mac systems).

Compressor has it’s own Timecode Reader which on it’s own is crap because it can only be one colour – so it can sometimes blend into the footage. But if used with a cleverly placed Watermark overlay (created in Photoshop) then you can create a black box to go around your timecode.

It might take 10 minutes to set all this up but once you have done you can reuse the preset over and over.

This way you don’t have to render anything – and all the processing is done within Compressor which is multi-processoe aware (if set up properly).

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[Matt Lyon]

Good tips Gary, but if the OP is using a timecode reader filter, for per-shot timecode, then the Compressor timecode generator won’t do the job.

You can also turn on the frame controls in compressor and set the resize quality to “Fastest” for an additional speed boost.

In the past I’ve worked on shows that use a playback deck connected to a DVD video recorder. Not sure if that is an option here, but those things go for pretty cheap these days…

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Ben Hendriks]

Or if your daillies are for viewing only, playout your timeline to a DVD recorer in realtime.

Regards Ben