Screen Capture codec?

[Tom Wolsky]

Why didn’t DVCPRO HD not work? What happened? How did you convert it? What about the audio? Did you convert that as well?

Not all Flip cameras are the same. Mostly they shoot H.264.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Andrew Crittenden]

I tried importing the original screen movie and that didn’t work, and then I saved in QT7 as a movie
Settings: Compression H.264 Key Frame rate 24 multipass 2048×1152
I get “File Error: Unknown file”

Am setting up FCP files as HDV – 720p24…

Thanks

Andy

[Tom Wolsky]

H.264 is an acquisition and delivery codec. It’s not intended for production use. You need to convert the media to a format and codec support in FCP. You should convert it to ProRes or ProRes LT. The audio should be uncompressed 48k as well.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Andrew Crittenden]

I’m not too bright when it comes to this stuff… but if I understand what your saying, saving the screen recording to 720 720p movie won’t work… so then the question becomes how do I convert to PRo Res? I don’t see that as an option for either QT7 or QT10? Is there a conversion software I need to purchase? And if so, why does Apple have a Screen capture mechanism which needs to be converted by a third party software before you can edit with it? How else are screen captures supposed to be utilized if you can’t edit it?

I’m confused. Thanks very much for your help in this matter.

Andy

Andy

[Tom Wolsky]

If you have FCP6 or 7 then you must have ProRes available to you. It will be a codec in the QT export function. If you have an earlier version of FCP you probably should not be using OS 10.6.x. The full screen capture is not in a video standard frame resolution so it’s going to take a pretty good drive to support it, and you will not have much realtime capability in FCP.

You could use Compressor to make the conversion for you.

A screen capture using is intended to be shared on the Internet. If you want to edit the screen capture you should use specialist software like iShowU or Screenflow.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

If you have FCP6 or 7 then you must have ProRes available to you. It will be a codec in the QT export function. If you have an earlier version of FCP you probably should not be using OS 10.6.x. The full screen capture is not in a video standard frame resolution so it’s going to take a pretty good drive to support it, and you will not have much realtime capability in FCP.

You could use Compressor to make the conversion for you.

A screen capture using is intended to be shared on the Internet. If you want to edit the screen capture you should use specialist software like iShowU or Screenflow.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Walter Soyka]

[Tom Wolsky] “The full screen capture is not in a video standard frame resolution so it’s going to take a pretty good drive to support it, and you will not have much realtime capability in FCP… A screen capture using is intended to be shared on the Internet. If you want to edit the screen capture you should use specialist software like iShowU or Screenflow.”

I agree with Tom — I’m a big Telestream ScreenFlow fan. Both of these products have some great training features beyond simple capture and straight-cut editorial.

With any software, if you want to do a full-screen capture and intercut it with standard video footage I recommend setting your display to a standard video size (like 1280×720 or 1920×1080) before recording.

Walter Soyka
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[Charles Diaz]

Hi Tom,
I was reading the thread and have a similar problem, Im hoping you could possibly help me with. I work for a medical software company, and create promotional and educational training videos. This particular project Im working on requires me to demo our product. Im using iShowU HD (screen capture tool), and am trying to bring the file captured in to FCP. The problem lies in that when I bring the file in, it looks fine in the viewer, but as soon as I render the file, it blurs. Making for bad video. Do you have any work arounds or possible solutions to this? Anything you could help me with, is greatly appreciated.

Thanks and God BLess,

[Tom Wolsky]

Did you set your screen resolution before capturing to a standard frame resolution? Are you editing in that resolution? What specs are your captured material? What format are you working with in FCP?

High resolution computer screen do not translate well to video unless you take into account the limitations of the medium throughout the process.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Charles Diaz]

Ok so here are my specs in which I recorded in iShowU:

Capture Area: Was application
Output Video: Final Cut- ProRes>1280X720 24P (Apple ProRes 422)(30fps)
Size: Same as Capture Size

Once Im in FCP, im not quite sure what you need to know there. Im all about the editing, and can answer those type of questions. But Im truthfully not all that familiar with what format. Are you asking whether its HD or not? The better question is how can I check to give you a better answer.