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  TITLES STRETCHING ON COMPRESSOR OUTPUT!?

  Posted by Sam Goetz on November 2, 2006 at 10:13 pm

  ** THIS IS ALSO POSTED IN THE FINAL CUT PRO FORUM **

  I’m editing a DVCPRO HD 1080i60 project in Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 right now that I’m regularly compressing to H.264 960×540 movies for client approval.

  I’m exporting directly from my FCP timelines via the “EXPORT –> VIA COMPRESSOR” pulldown to save space and to save time, but I do believe I’m running into a bug. Although the footage itself is compressing and resizing perfectly, my effects and titles are getting vertically stretched.

  By effects, I’m specifically referring to a Time Code generator that I’m putting on footage and a rotation effect that I put on one of the shots that got stretched in a bizzarre uncomprehensable way.

  Anyway, I’m guessing the only way around this bug is to export a FCP reference / selfcontained movie and compress that instead, but that’s a lot more time and (if the reference movie doesn’t work) a lot more space to deal with, so I was wondering if there’s another kind of work around…. (maybe rendering out just the problem areas, but w/ a TCG Generator that would be a lot of rendering…).

  Any help would be much appreciated. Here’s all my specs:

  OS X 10.4.8
  FCP 5.0.4
  –> 1080i60 – 23.98fps – 1920×1080 (true resolution 1280×1080)
  Blackmagic Extreme Card (w/ latest drivers)
  Compressor 2.0.1
  –> H.264 (w/ various settings)
  –> 960×540

  Thanks!
  Sam Goetz

  Sam Goetz replied 19 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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