Recommended Timeline Codec for HVX200 720/30 or 1080/30?

[Lawrence Richards]

The media is all on my internal hdd and to be completely honest, I’m not sure how to answer the interlaced/progressive question. I’m an editor more out of necessity than “being 1 with it” if you know what I mean hence my somewhat vague and novice-like questions. Shane, I’m extremely appreciative of your willingness to help but I don’t want to suck your brain so for now, rather than continue, I think I’m just going to putter around and see what I can make happen.

Thank you!!

Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Chris Tompkins]

720pn, 30fps @1/60

Looks like you shot progressive.
Make sure you’re editing in a 720 sequence and NOT a 1080 sequence.

Your media should NOT be on the internal hard drive. That is for OS and Apps. You will have poor performance in trying to do so.

You need dedicated hard drives for video editing. Preferable an external raid. You can have a couple internal drives striped for what you’re editing though.

Also, in the browser, take a clip and drop it into a blank/new/emty sequence and let FCP match it. This is your best quality.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Lawrence Richards]

Thank you, Chris. I did not know that about using a dedicated external drive as my scratch. Perhaps that’s my issue as there is a lot of raw footage on my internal drive.

As for what you mention with dropping a test clip into a new sequence and letting FCP figure out what to do, I’ve tried that and copied my edited video from different sequence into that per-configured Timeline. Is that what you recommend?

And lastly, I am having a heck of a time uploading a video onto Vimeo. I’ve never had issues before but for some reason I am with this video. While it looks and plays fine on my computer, once up on Vimeo there are “waves” and “ripples” etc.

The video can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/42399731

Based on what Vimeo recommends and what I’ve been doing for a couple of years these are the specs I use when Exporting:

QUICKTIME CONVERSION:

MP4
Broadband High
Video Format H-264
Data Rate: 4500 k/bits per sec (*I usually only use 2000 and that has never caused any the video has looked fine)
Optimized for Download
Image Size 1280×720
Frame Rate Current
Key Frame 150 frames

The tech said that he thinks the bit rate is a little high – 13,500 kbps – and may be causing the stuttering I’m seeing. He suggests I try lowering it to 5000kbps and see if the performance improves.

Ok, but my question is how? Do I simply drop the data rate number I input way down to @1000 instead of 4500?

He mentioned also that the size of the original file may be the culprit. Again I’m scratching my head because I’m not sure what if anything I can do about the original file in the Timeline.

Get back to me when you can, Chris. And just like with Shane, I promise I won’t pick your brain. 🙂

Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Jeff Meyer]

The bitrate or data rate can be considered the quality of the movie, so I don’t think you want to drop that down to 1,000kbps. That’s pretty low for 720.

I haven’t had the best of luck with exporting using Quicktime Conversion, and I think this is where your stutter is coming in. In addition using QT Conversion it ties up Final Cut when you could otherwise be working. What I would recommend instead is to export a copy of your project at full quality (File, Export (not QT conversion, just export and leave it at current settings) and then take that into Compressor. You can check the exported file before going into Compressor and go frame-by-frame with it. If this export has stutter issues you need to reimport your footage, as something went wrong during importing.

Here’s a good tutorial about using Compressor for Vimeo. Bring your exported QT movie into Compressor to make the Vimeo file. I would always opt for multipass encoding if time allows.
https://vimeo.com/24014623

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[Lawrence Richards]

Thank you, Jeff. I’ll check that out. The darnedest thing is that is just happened again with another video. Until recently I’ve never had any problems with Vimeo and everything I’ve uploaded has been as mp4’s. I don’t think they take anything else.Very frustrating.

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida