final cut express render is past the mark out

[Tom Wolsky]

If you are using standard definition then you’re capturing in DV, and that’s what you exporting using QuickTime Movie. That can go to either Handbrake or iDVD.

If you’re exporting to PhotoJPEG you’re not going to the web. The application that does the actual web encode like Handbrake or whatever does the optimizing for the web.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Shane Godfrey]

thanks for all your help, looking forward to the dvd!

[Shane Godfrey]

Ok thought I was done, but the slow motion clips have ghosting behind them after I ran it thru jpeg-photo, and handbrake. I have not slowed the clips down any more than 50%, any ideas? The overall quality is good but not the best besides that. It actually looked better when I used the DVPro50 option and then sent it thru HB. ????

[Tom Wolsky]

That’s very surprising. You might want to make sure some level of Motion Blur is turned on in FCE.
How does the exported P-JPEG file look?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Shane Godfrey]

it has the ghosting on the jpeg-photo render also, and I do not know where to find “some level of Motion Blur is turned on in FCE” maybe that is the problem?

[Tom Wolsky]

Open the clip into the Viewer and in the Motion tab at the bottom is Motion Blur. Try different settings. Push up the number of samples of 8 or 16 and pull down the blur amount.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Shane Godfrey]

went back and checked and there was no motion blur used, however it looks absolutely perfect (I am shooting with a Z1U, so the quality is great) even in slow motion, no ghosting at all, color perfect, everything great. then the final copy after render and handbrake it looses about 30% of it’s quality and it has ghosting.

any other suggestions, and thanks again for your help!

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t understand this message. You’re well shot video should look fine. That’s the camera footage, right? Nothing’s been done to that, right? After you’ve made the slomo, did you apply the motion blur? That will smooth out some of the ghosting. There will be some degradation. You’re creating frames where none exist before. And of course compress it like mad in Handbrake is only going to make it worse. Render the material in FCE. Look at with the canvas set to 100%. Tweak the motion blur till you can get it a smooth as you can without ghosting. If it’s unacceptable you’re going to need better tools.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Shane Godfrey]

that is right the camera footage looks fine, nothing has been done to that. I did apply blur and looked at it at 100% and I did not see where that made a difference. When I apply slomo to it it looks fine in the canvas w/o blur added at 25%. Just when it is rendered it looses its quality, and that may just be the tools.

What tools are you referring to, FCP, would that make a difference?

[Tom Wolsky]

Not FCP, but Motion.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”