FCP and PSP

[Don Greening]

I just watched a short demo on Episode Pro and this program actually has a Play Station Portable compression preset. So I’m assuming that you do your edit the same as anything else in FCP but when you’re done you just port your self-contained or reference .mov over to Episode and choose the psp preset. Episode Pro is brought to you by the good folks at FlipForMac and with that program you can even have those presets available in Apple’s Compressor if you tell Compressor where to find them first. Perhaps Episode Pro will have that same feature.

https://www.flip4mac.com/

– Don

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[Todd Beabout]

You can use ffmpegx to turn any movie out of Final Cut (or any program for that matter) into PSP format. And it’s a free download.

https://ffmpegX.com/

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Abram Corbett]

Yeah I tried this program and the quality was not that great. Perhaps I need to spend some time with setting to tweak the quality. The PSP preset is what i used and was pretty dissapointed.

“What we do in this life echoes in eternity”

[Todd Beabout]

Yeah, it is pretty easy to tweak the settings. If your video is not looking the best, click on the “Video” tab (next to “Summary”) and you can adjust your Video Bitrate which should help in the quality. It also has a bitrate calculator of sorts built in, where you can target a specific file size, or see what the file size would be a a given bitrate.

I’ve had decent results with that program, but it did take some adjusting.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Abram Corbett]

Thank you for the input. I will try these ajustments.

“What we do in this life echoes in eternity”