my jpg stills distorted during compression on FCP

[Annie Watson]

wow, I am impressed at how helpful everyone is and THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Ok, I agree that compressing it to a square made no sense at all… and I saw that and thought it was weird… so this time I changed it and it looks much better. so, I changed that against Vimeo’s “recommendations”.

It seems to be looking pretty good now, except that the file size is too big now to upload t Vimeo. It is 24.5 GB and Vimeo only allows 5 GB… very bummed about this. I thought when I compress it, it would go way down in size.

FCP is busy right now, trying to compress it again. Otherwise I would give you all the info you asked about…

some of your questions I can answer;
format h.264
exporting w/ Quicktime conversion through FCP
I used jpgs.
Question; if I changed the stills to png’s would the whole file be smaller? I really don’t want to do this, because it will take forever to re-do the film…

Also, I am wondering if I can upload the WHOLE movie onto IMBD… that may be the way I have to go…. and skip the Vimeo thing.

The film is a combination of dslr video & stills, both shot with the same camera. 5dm2
“What’s the image size of your still images vs. the video size that you’re exporting and compressing to?
” – most of the stills were resized to 1920×1080 so that they would be the general desired size for the film.

BTW, it is a documentary, of a dark subject matter, but if you want to see it, let me know and I will try to figure out how to send it… problem is, it’s such a big file, I am having a tough time with that. I am going to check out IMBD now and see if I can upload it.

Some of your questions confuse me… because I am a beginner… “no matter what the case is, make sure FCP export dimensions are consistent with your compressor! ” I think , lol, I am compressing it when I go to File>Export>Quicktime Conversion… does that mean I am exporting it?

I watched my “compresses version, which is 36 minutes long and 24.5 GB, and it’s looking pretty sweet. made a few changes and am re-exporting it to Quicktime conversion…

Anyway, wish me luck! And thank you again.

annie

[Brad Kutmas]

Wow, 25GB is a huge file. You may want to break that down to a series of videos if you’re planning on posting it on Vimeo.

Using PNG wouldn’t make the file size any smaller, but the images may come out in better quality than the Jpeg.

“Some of your questions confuse me… because I am a beginner… “no matter what the case is, make sure FCP export dimensions are consistent with your compressor! ” I think , lol, I am compressing it when I go to File>Export>Quicktime Conversion… does that mean I am exporting it?”

You are correct, you are compressing the movie when you export using quicktime conversion, unless you choose a setting “do not compress”. Then you are further compressing the video when you use the built-in compressor. What I meant by the consistency of your FCP export and compressor is simply this; if you’re image sizes are 1920×1080, then you will need to make sure your exporting the video as 16:9 widescreen using quicktime conversion. Then, if you plan to compress the video to H264, make sure the video is once again set for 16:9. If you need step by step instruction for this, please let me know.

Thanks,
-Brad

Brad Kutmas
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Instructional Design Specialist