FCP to IPOD for Client reviews

[Mark Maness]

Use Compressor. This program was built specifically for this type of work.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Delano Bryant]

Amen to that brother! I don’t know why everyone isn’t using compressor. Unless you’re saving time for an output to view, then use compressor.

[Jeremy Garchow]

The ipod was not made for television, it was made for the iPod. The resolution you are getting when you go to iPod is 320×240. That’s half of tv res. No wonder you are seeing pixelation, no? And as far as stuttering, the iPod was created for 320×240 video, it probably can’t keep up with 640×480 video.

Be archaic and burn a DVD or present it on your laptop. If they have a projector, hook up your laptop to the projector for greater resolution.

Jeremy

[Tom Wolsky]

It depends on which generation iPod.

Compressor is still using the first generation viPod settings of 320×240. Direct export from FCP uses the current viPod settings of 640×480. This is used for movie downloads from Apple and works on current gen viPods.

I’ve been using Episode to encode 640 horizontal with 16:9 aspect format video for iPod and the quality is pretty good. I also like to compress to using 480 horizontal for 16:9. It seems a good compromise of file size for image quality. Works fine on the current gen viPod. Content is a huge factor on how well this stuff encodes. Movement often encodes quite poorly.

[Ashley James]

I have a new 30 GB Video Ipod and I used the IPOD selection when I output from FCP. However, on analysis it says its 320×240, not 640×480. I did explore Compressor as the first replies suggested (thank you very much) It says the export from FCP is at 23.98, although I didn’t set that up. Shouldn’t the frame rate be 29.97 or 30 fps? Could that be the jerky motion problem?

[Ashley James]

I have a new 30 GB Video Ipod and I used the IPOD selection when I output from FCP. However, on analysis it says its 320×240, not 640×480. I did explore Compressor as the first replies suggested (thank you very much) It says the export from FCP is at 23.98, although I didn’t set that up. Shouldn’t the frame rate be 29.97 or 30 fps? Could that be the jerky motion problem?

[Tom Wolsky]

What version of FCP is this?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Tom Wolsky]

And what version of QuickTime is this?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Ashley James]

Its the frame rate. Looking at the exported quicktime in Compressor the frame rate somehow was 23.98 I was successful getting an excellent 640×480 with proper motion Burned a dvd of the fcp quicktime, used Handbrake and selected 29.97 as a frame rate and average bitrate of 1500. Hooked it up to a monitor and it was very nice. Not quite dvd quality but very nice. I’ll try experimenting with Compressor when I can get to the media but frame rate was the culprit

Thanks to all

[Tom Wolsky]

What version of FCP and QuickTime is this? I’m not seeing the results you’re getting. What is the original material you’re working with and what are the sequence settings?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs