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  • Problem editing sequence with still images

    Posted by Alexandre Ferreira on September 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Hello everyone. First of all, I’m completely new to this (and English is not my first language, sorry…), so please be patient. I’m having the following problem. I edited a full sequence in FCP only with still images (high res. jpgs). Their order and duration are very important because the images change based on the music beat that I’m using in the audio track. The main point is: when I upload my video to Youtube, it changes to 30fps, completely destroying the pacing of it. I tried a lot of things, but I really cannot resolve the problem. Is there any solution to keep a smooth flow between the images? I’m desperate, because I just feel that I lost all the work put in this project.

    Here is the video with the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXR0oENQfIA

    Thank you very much and, again, sorry if I could not make myself clear.

    P.s. I’m using the following Audio/ Video Settings in FCP:

    Sequence Preset: DVCPRO HD – 720p60
    Capture Preset: DVC PRO HD – 720p60 48 khz
    Frame Size: 960 x 720 pixels
    Editing Timebase: 59.94 (I tried to start a new project with a 29.97 timebase, but that didn’t work either)
    Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (960 x 720)

    Export Settings:
    Compression: H.264
    Quality: Best
    Frame Rate: 29.97
    Key frame rate: Automatic
    Frame reordering: yes
    Encoding mode: multi-pass
    Dimensions: 1280×720 (1248×702)

    Sound

    Format: AAC
    Sample rate: 44.100 kHz.
    Bit rate: 128 kbps.

    Finally, I’m using Streamclip with the following settings:

    Compression: H.264.
    Quality: 100%
    Limit Data Rate: 7000 kbps
    Sound: Uncompressed/ Stereo/ 44.1 kHz
    Frame Size: 1280×720 (unscaled)
    Frame Rate: 29.97
    Interlaced Scaling

    Alexandre Ferreira replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Chris Tompkins

    September 6, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    720p60 is really 30fps (29.97 stream)

    You exported correctly. This issue I think is the quick cuts.
    did you try deselecting Frame reordering?

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta LLC

  • Alexandre Ferreira

    September 6, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Oh yes,I think so, Chris. I tried deselecting frame reordering but, as I can remember, with no success. But, just to be sure, I will try that again when I get back home and post the result here. Anyway, thank you very much for your reply.

  • Chris Tompkins

    September 6, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    I think Key Frames is where you want to change.
    Use Make a key frame every 15 frames and try that.

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta LLC

  • Alexandre Ferreira

    September 6, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    Chris, I just finished trying all the changes that you hinted me. But, honestly, the problem remains. The only way to get an effect closer to the original is if I change the resolution to 240p in Youtube. Anyway, here are all the different settings:

    teste14 (frame reordering off)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spAaI-Ojcu4

    teste15 (frame reordering on/ key frames every 15 frames)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCIFTb3Qic

    teste16 (frame reordering off/ key frames every 15 frames)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlicTaYWfrg

    Do you think I should still keep playing with the key frames? Thanks.

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