Ideal Quicktime to Show Client Prores 422 sequence?

[Peter Wiggins]

H264 Play around with the compression/file size etc

Select AAC audio too

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Brilliant Peter thanks :o)

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[Peter Dunphy]

Got my H264 created successfully and it looks great but the audio ‘clicks’ for me every couple of seconds.

To play the file H264 file I had highlighted both the H264 file and the AAC 128Kbps.m4a file, right clicked and chose to open with Quicktime.

I noticed that the H264 file originally seems to come with PCM sound – perhaps there is a way to remove the PCM sound as it might be conflicting with the AAC sound?

Just noticed in H264 for audio there is enabled, disabled and passthrough – will tinker with disabled and passthrough. Am I on the right track?

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[Peter Dunphy]

The AAC sound opens in a separate Quicktime player than the H264 Quicktime player for me.

H264 has sound disabled – need a way of getting that good AAC audio onto the H264 file in the Quicktime player.

Any quick tips would be really appreciated.

All the best

Peter

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[Peter Dunphy]

BTW for speed I’m using a Quick Cluster (7 cores) in Compressor.

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[Peter Dunphy]

Fantastic!

Solved it! Noticed in Compressor in the Inspector for H264 that I can simply switch the audio from PCM to AAC without having to actually add in a new, separate AAC Setting.

Can relax now! Hope you’re all having a great week and looking forward to Snow Leopard!

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[Peter Dunphy]

Ach – still getting faint crackling when i play the H264 file in Quicktime.

I exported the ProRes 422 movie as self-contained Quicktime file in FCP6.

I dropped this file into Compressor, chose H264 and AAC audio (instead of the default PCM audio).

Any tips about what I could do to solve this would be really appreciated.

Warm regards

Peter

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[Erik Lindahl]

What I’ve done when needing to send high-resolution review copies with short round-trip-times is to use the Photo JPEG codec at 50-75%. File sizes are larger than h264, but smaler than ProRes and the encoding time is faster than realtime. Playback also works on all systems with out hassel of installing a ProRes codec.

Regarding crackling sounds I sadly can’t help… I tend to use QuickTime player for quick and dirty h264 output or Telestream’s Epsiode for “mastering” output.

Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Communication
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[Peter Dunphy]

Okay solved again – just put the AAC audio setting to Best.

Now just one more problem – I have some fast sports sequences in my edit and they appear very blurry/tracey.

Is there a way I can remove the blur please?

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[Peter Dunphy]

Thanks for your kind advice Eric

Upon exporting from FCP to a self-contained QT a bad blurring/mild tracing effect during the fast moving sequences is already noticeable – I checked my export setting is correctly Top First and have fiddled with settings but still getting a blur during fast sequences.

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