Need advice about editing from two different cameras

[Patrick Collins]

Wow.. Ok, so it looks like I got everything perfect.. And now compressor is completely failing me.

In FCP did export sequence, with current settings, and output that to a .mov file…

Then I brought that into compressor, and set it to do h264, 8000kpbs, 30fps, aac 44khz 192kbps, set it to use 100% of source, it shows 1280×720…

I let that compress.. 4-5 hours later, it’s done… I open the file in quicktime.. everything looks beautiful.. I skip ahead in the timeline.. it stops updating the video… I play from the middle of the video.. the video frame is stuck, and only audio plays.. It appears that it only encoded the first 10 minutes or so of the video…

Then I checked the original exported from FCP uncompressed video, it plays totally fine. I can scrub around no problem… No video problems.. playback is flawless up until the end.

So I restarted my computer, and tried again… Dragged the original to compressor, got the settings h264, 8000kbps, etc.. 4-5 hours later, got the exact same results… This time I just let the movie play, after about 10 minutes, the image gets crazy pixelated with compression artifacts everywhere, and eventually the picture just freezes.. audio continues to play throughout the rest of the movie.

What the hell?????

I just started doing compression from quicktime 7, so that’s going now, and I am hoping that will work. But.. why is compressor doing this? I’ve never seen this sort of thing happen before.

[Shane Ross]

What MacOS are you running?

Shane
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[Patrick Collins]

10.6.8. this is on a 2008 power mac that doesn’t have an intel processor, so I am stuck with that OS.

[Patrick Collins]

I should also mention that my previous 720×480 version worked fine going through compressor with those same h264 options…

[Shane Ross]

[patrick collins] “a 2008 power mac that doesn’t have an intel processor, so I am stuck with that OS.”

2008…that’s a MacPro, and it has an Intel Processor. G5’s were the last that had motorola processors. But that’s besides the point..10.6.8 is where you should be.

Try COMPRESSOR REPAIR from digitalrebellion.com. Might be a free demo. If not, it’s a toolset that is vital for FCP, totally worth it.

Shane
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[Patrick Collins]

Oh yeah you’re right… Sorry– I rarely use this machine so I forgot what it was, but it is indeed the intel xeon. I think I probably never put Lion on it then because of all the horrible things people were saying about Lion at the time.

[Patrick Collins]

Wow.. just wow.. The quicktime compressed version does the exact same thing.. It’s almost like some invisible force does not want this video project to get completed. It’s been nothing but painful every step of the way…. WOW!!!

I guess. I am going to try from FCP doing “send to compressor” and see if that works..

[Patrick Collins]

So… I tried “send to compressor”.. I get the exact same thing.. Everything is fine in the beginning and then the video just drops out. If I skip ahead I see:

https://collinatorstudios.com/www/picasso.png

WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?!??!!?

O M G…

I can’t stand this anymore.

So I have the uncompressed version that is PERFECT… and plays totally fine.. and no matter what I do, I cannot get a h.264 version of this for uploading to youtube…. WHAT THE HELL!!??!?!?!?!?!?!

[Nick Meyers]

when you exported, did you have it set to “Self Contained” (bottom of the Save window)

i wonder if you made a reference file instead, and now there’s some problem accessing a render file?

i would go back to your sequence,
select all,
Control B (everything will be “un-enabled” or “muted”)
Control B again, (everything is re-enambled) and you will have flushed your renders

re-render the entire timeline COMPLETELY.
to do this, go to Sequence Menu, Redner All, make sureal the Video types, including “Full” are checked
then in the same menu, hit Both (or option R)

when rendered, export as self contained Quicktime move, Current Settings.

this is very belts and braces, with a fair bit of redundancy,
but should give you a clean un-corrupterd file.

then try to compress it.

nick

[Patrick Collins]

I think your ctrl-B suggestions saved the day– I finally was able to get a file out of compressor that plays through to the end… I can finally put this project behind me!

Thanks Nick & Shane for all your help along the way during these trying times!!!