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HELP Smooth Playback Possible of FCP QT Export??
I’ve been pulling my hair out for days over this…maybe it’s not possible, anybody know?
I’ve been exporting from FCP to Quicktime and MPEG and have been getting jumpy/stuttery playback in Quicktime (7.1.3). It looks like the buffer can’t handle the data rate or something. It doesn’t stutter in the exact same place each time, but it comes to that pan and dissolve combo and kinda freezes for a frame and then jumps to two frames ahead or something.
First I thought it was my client’s old G4 laptop, but then I noticed it on my G5 dual processor desktop. I’ve tried exporting my SD 10bit Uncompressed Sequence from FCP (5.1.2) as native quicktime file and as a DV file. I’ve used Compressor (2.3) to create MPEGs of varying data rates, H.264s, MPEG 4s, and DV QTs. I made the sequence progressive and applied a deinterlace filter, but still no luck. The MPEGs turned into a DVD disc look fine in a DVD player. They look fine on (are you ready for this?) a PC (gulp). But they look stuttery in DVD Player.
Maybe it’s my project? Field order anomaly? So I created a whole new project in NTSC DV and imported a large still; did a pan and exported that native quicktime file. Yet QT Player still played that back stuttery. I’m wondering if it’s possible to get a smooth playback in quicktime, but you see now that I’ve lost my mind at this point.
HELP!love,
jeffG5 dual processor 2.5GB RAM
QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
Compressor 2.3
AJA KonaLH
OS 10.4.7
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your not alone… i think
i started having this problem 2-3 months ago. when i export using quicktime conversion, i get the studdering, but out of compressor it’s fine. the only thing is that compressor takes like three times longer to render for me (when going hdv to some type of quicktime file). no one gave me a solution, but i was just thinking about that today.
unfortunately ive got no solutions.
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I beat myself for another day and then went to a different box with older software — G5 with Compressor 2 and QT 7.1.2.
The captured clip played back fine in QT player on this box (unlike on the box with QT 7.1.3).
I compressed an H.264 movie and an MPEG-2 and they looked pretty good, possibly a hitch in the MPEG on DVD Player but I don’t think I would’ve noticed hadn’t I had all the big hitches/jumpy video on the other box.
Interesting though that the DV file I captured on the first box in FCP 5.1.2 with the KonaLH played fine on this box. But that same file was outputted as a Quicktime Movie in FCP in the DV codec and would not play fine on this box running QT 7.1.2
Perhaps it is a Quicktime issue.
Anyone else see this?
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if this is still an issue, i think i found a workaround.
i nested my hdv timeline into a dvcpro50 timeline, then exported using quicktime to dvpro50. no glitches. try different formats, it will probably work.
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