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Hdv not playing
I edited an hour long HDV (1080i60 1920×1080) video in FCP. I exported Quicktime current settings.
When I try and play this quicktime video in quicktime pro player, the video is not fluid at all and is extremely jerky/choppy and the sound is not in sync. Can anyone tell me what is wrong.
Is it something i did, or my system that cant handle this video.G5
Dual 1.8 Ghz
4 gb Ram
Geforce Fx 5200 card- (64 mb, 1024 x 768 @ 85hz , 32 bit color )thanks for any help
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3 Replies
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If you can step through your video in QT Player and see the frames that it’s skipping over then your system is probably not up to the task.
The good news with that scenario is that your video file is OK. You just have to transcode it to another format to play it back. What is your final destination for your video? You’re more than likely going to have to transcode it anyways.
All the best,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Well I compressed for DVD use authored the dvd and it came out good. But I really want to know what i need to do to my system to resolve this. I just compressed the original HDV quicktime in compressor to an H264 and that file plays just as bad. so now im a little confused. surely my system should be able to play the h264. From my specs i posted earlier, what part of my system is not up to the task. How can it be possible the h264 isnt playing fluid? ( I did keep the original resolution when compressing to h264, if that matters)
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Actually it’s quite reasonable that your HD H264 file won’t play back fluidly. Take a look at the Activity Monitor when you try to play it. Those CPU peaks that coincide with the stuttering tell you that it’s actually quite a processor intensive job to play back H.264.
There are graphics cards that do hardware acceleration for H264 playback, like the NVidia 9400M in the new Macbook Pros.
I know that doesn’t help much, but I hope it explains it a bit better.
Cheers,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
Training | Editing |Support
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