Media 100 Producer: import a DV 16:9 anamorphic

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “it looks correctly inside FCP (16:9 aspect ratio) but it

[Alessio Gemma]

[floah] “Hmmm, if you did acquire into ProRes in FCP your clips should “fast import” into Producer without any conversion, and without any color change being applied to them. ”

The import in Media 100 is not so fast… it does a render (it appears a rendering window) while imports the clip. Here all the settings of the steps I need to create the final DVD: maybe it can help.

[floah] “Can you post a sample clip somewhere so that we can take a look?”

Of course, I’m doing it.. but my ADSL is only 256 Kbps in upload, so it needs a lot (30 sec of clip are near 220 MB in ProRes): I’ll alert you when the acquired clip and exported one in SCM are uploaded.

Regards,
Alessio

[Floh Peters]

When you import into Media 100 (page 3 of your PDF), try turning off the “Import media to the Media Standard and Codec” checkbox. Then the files should fast-import, and no color-conversion should happen.

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floh] “When you import into Media 100 (page 3 of your PDF), try turning off the “Import media to the Media Standard and Codec” checkbox.”

If i do this, it imports the clip again, but it’s still slow (it appears a rendering window). In add, when I drag this bin in the program, it appears a window

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “If i do this, it imports the clip again, but it’s still slow (it appears a rendering window). In add, when I drag this bin in the program, it appears a window

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floh] “It seems that your problem has 2 parts: I was able to fast import the “Capture.mov” clip; there is a slight delay when the clip gets updated and the audio processed, but no “Rendering Video Track” message appears. If the clip does not fast-import on your system (as long as the “Import Media into…” checkbox is turned off, something seems to be wrong on your system.”

Instead of directly import the capture.mov, I tried to export it in self-contained from FCP and import in Media 100.. same window, “Rendering….” but I changed the codec from ProRes HQ to ProRes in the Project Settings and… voil

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “Field dominance: Automatic
Average data rate: 6.5 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
High quality “

I think that your data rate is pretty high, and I would highly recommend setting the field order to “Upper Field First”. I haven

[Alessio Gemma]

[floh] “I think that your data rate is pretty high, and I would highly recommend setting the field order to “Upper Field First”. I haven

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “I’ll try the Apple preset for MPEG-2, I noticed one for 90minutes DVD that seems to be the higher quality one: even if, in this setting too, the field dominance is setted to “automatic”. “

You FIRST need to select your clip in Compressor and set the Field Dominance in the Info window. Then you can apply a Preset to the clip.

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floh] “You FIRST need to select your clip in Compressor and set the Field Dominance in the Info window. Then you can apply a Preset to the clip”

Yes, you already told me and be sure I always do this. 🙂
I was asking you if I’ve to check “Interlaced” in the Apple ProRes codec settings for capture (you can do this even when export from edit suite in Media 100 using Quick Time exporter).

Alessio