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FCP and Compressor just not working right???
Hi. FCP 4 worked just fine. I would export the timeline to Compressor for MPEG2 encoding and all went smooth. Now… in FCP 5.0.4, this is not working well at all. I set my in and out on the timeline, and go to export with compressor and I have made my own preset which is basically CBR at 8000 bitrate. I go to encode a 56 minute program and the resulting .m2v file is only 1.77GB. Something is wrong here. I have tried different settings and the file size should be over 3gigs. On another similar system, I also noticed the encoded files just not what I expected. Do I have to go back to FCP 4 to get this right? Is there a bug here or… what am I missing? Am I able to set the Quality to my settings within Compressor and will that result in the file I want, or do I have to only use the presets? Sorry… this just has me wanting to pull out my hair.
glenn
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Please don’t pull your hair out. I’ve got a good unique look going with my bald head and I don’t need the competition.
How dose that file look? Is it the whole show? Have you tried to export a reference movie and then drop that in compressor and compress? Little more info to help us help you.
Compressor can be quirky on some machines over others. As long as you can drop a file in and it compresses it compressor should be fine. You said you had a custom setting?
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
Try Exporting your time line as a quicktime movie without making the file selfcontained. Use Current setting and check export markers if you have any otherwise uncheck it. Import that reference movie into compressor and have a go again. I learned about this methode in Larry Jordans exellent Final Cut 5 H.O.T from Lyndan. But you can find the describtion on how to do it on lafcp.org as well. Hopefully it would solve your problem;-)
Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine
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I set compressor for CBR at 8000 and BEST. The program rendered the .m2v file at 1.77GB which is way to small for a 56 minute show. It is a dual G5 computer at… I think about 2.7 ghz? Anyway, I exported the file as a self contained and loaded in to Compressor and the same settings yeilded a file size of 2.14 which is still no good. So then I tried using 2 pass VBR at 7.7 and 9000 and the file was 2.7GB which is getting better but I should have been able to make it about 3.5GB for that length show. I guess I will have to use the other G5 that has FCP 4 ??? Why does this not just work right? Is this a known problem?
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OK I’ll try this next week. Why doesn’t it just work from the timeline? 2 steps forward 1 step back? —frustrated!
glenn
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