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How to export with a 2:3 cadence?
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Just to follow up in case this info might interest people:
After struggling to get this to work on my home machine, I realized the only way I could get good looking results was to encode directly from FCP to Compressor. Any tests I did using self contained or ref quicktimes would result in horrible “bouncing fields” artifacts. Maybe something to do with Compressor not recognizing the field ordering (or in this case — progressive frames) of the original footage?
But this was using Compressor 3.0.5 — maybe Compressor 3.5 fixes this?
Matt Lyon
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[Matt Lyon] “But this was using Compressor 3.0.5 — maybe Compressor 3.5 fixes this?”
It’s worked for along time, but COmpressor has to be set just right. If you follow my other thread that I linked to, you will see you have to tell Compressor the field order of your incoming clip (sometimes) and then set the field order for upper in the frame controls tab. Counter intuitive, but it works. Perhaps in 3.0.5, the field order should be set to lower. You have to play around and see.
Jeremy
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Yeah, the settings are definitely not intuitive 🙂 But I followed your instructions exactly and everything worked as described, so no problems there. I was just relating that I got different results when going directly to Compressor via FCP, vs. exporting a self contained quicktime and then running the same preset. But now that you mention it, I didn’t double check the incoming field dominance setting on the self contained quicktime … so maybe that was the culprit.
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto -
[Matt Lyon] “I was just relating that I got different results when going directly to Compressor via FCP, vs. exporting a self contained quicktime and then running the same preset.”
Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood. No reason to export a self contained, you can just export a reference movie. It will go much faster.
I never export straight to compressor, it takes too long as my virtual cluster doesn’t work.
Jeremy
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After revisiting my settings last night, I confirmed that the problem was indeed an incorrect setting on the incoming field dominance. Once I switched the clip’s property to “progressive” my preset worked as expected. So now I can get the same results using both methods (via FCP and standalone compressor)
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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