Media Manager issues again

[Nick Meyers]

i would have thought that MM didn’t use the best settings to recompress.

if you are compressing DOWN, then i don’t see a problem with using MM.

if you are compressing UP, then i’d say compressor offers better options, in terms of scaling.

nick

[Chris Stevens]

Thanks Nick. As I’m going from XDCAM EX (1920×1080) to ProRes HQ (same frame size) – there’s no scaling involved, so Media Manager would be ok? I follow your thinking re upscaling though.

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[Steve Eisen]

Chris

I suggested not using Media Manager to recompress because Media Manager gets it famous name of “Media Mangler” when you use move, recompress or use existing.

Go to the iTunes store and download a Podcast from MacBreak Studio dated 1/29/09. Tips and techniques for successfully using media manager.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Nick Meyers]

Media Manager is actually quite stable and predictable for jobs such as these.

MM can get tricky when delaing with large sequences or projects,
but for simple moves, copies, or even a recompress like this, it’s fine.

buit it’s a good idea to read up a bit on MM.

i havent done much recomprressing,
but as it’s making a COPY of the media there’s not much that could go wrong, IMO.

if you need to reconect to hte original media doan hte track,
the basic settings to use would be:

RECOMPRESS

DONT delete unused

BASE MEDIA FILE NAMES on existing file names.

if you have added any log notes to the clips,
or changed their names (however i’d recomend you dont do that)
then you would also ask for a new project to be made.

cheers,
nick

[Chris Stevens]

Thanks guys for your advise & link to MacBreak Studio.

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