Sequence settings size issue

[Shane Ross]

That flavor of XDCAM is thin raster, or anamorphic. Meaning 1440×1080 squeezed. FCP unsqueezes it so you see it full screen.

If you want a 1920×1080 timeline, use a ProRes 422 sequence setting and add your footage to that. You’ll get a green render bar, but you can work fine in real time with that.

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[Nel Shelby]

Thanks so much.

I have always set my easy set up as XDCAM and item properties always says 1920X1080, so not sure why it does not anymore. I also just dropped the files in a sequence and it asked if I wanted to match the video settings and when I said yes, item properties showed 1920X1080.

[Shane Ross]

Then there you go. You have the format of XDCAM that is 1920×1080. Lower data rate versions are 1440×1080.

You are good to go.

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[Nel Shelby]

good to go but now to tackle the big issue compressor keeps failing while outputting a few of my projects to DVD. It says Quick time error 0 or -50.

I thought it was my SXS cards or maybe something happened in log and transfer.

I saved all my BPAV folders and have re-logged footage and still it fails. Any ideas – I probably need to give more info, but I am exhausted from trouble shooting for a few weeks now.

[Shane Ross]

Change the sequence Compressor to ProRes. Render…export a self contained QT file…and try to author the DVD with that.

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[Nel Shelby]

Great I will try that. I have done all of that accept author it somewhere else, so hoping that works…I will report back!

[Joseph Owens]

[Nel Shelby] ” big issue compressor keeps failing while outputting a few of my projects to DVD. It says Quick time error 0 or -50.”

My bet would be that Quicktime has problems with ProRes coded files with synthetic resolutions that are quasi-custom, not standard (square) size. ProRes really wants to be square, but only in orthodox resolutions like 1920×1080 or 720×480, and your 1440 “stretch” may be confusing the decoder. Certainly this happened when I tried some 853×480 ProRes. FCP7 just went crazy.

jPo

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[Nel Shelby]

I finally got everything to work changing compressor to pro res, exporting a self contained QT file out of FCP and then encoding in DVDSP. THANK YOU

Although still getting general error when I render at times.

Joseph that makes sense about the decoder being confused, but I am still getting a general error when rendering. I can tell there is a real problem but I have not gotten to the bottom of it yet. Thanks so much

[Joseph Owens]

[Nel Shelby] ” I am still getting a general error when rendering.”

Yeah, I am actually sitting here looking at more or less the same thing. I have a ProRes4444 2048×1152 timeline that “renders” okay on the timeline, but as soon as I want to export a QT movie in PR4444, it balks and gives me a General Error, but if I choose PR422HQ, it goes.

Thanks, Apple.

jPo

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[Nel Shelby]

Pretty sure I figured it out. I got a new server installed and it runs through my office on CAT5 cable. I’m only have problems with the videos I have logged over that cable. So duh I need to log and transfer to my internal drives. I tried to re log footage last night and it compressed fine when I loaded it on my desktop. Hope this is it for all my issues!!