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TITLES STRETCHING ON COMPRESSOR OUTPUT!?
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)
–> 960×540Thanks!
Sam Goetz -
2 Replies
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I had that rotation issue a while ago, but that was HDV to MPEG 2 via Compressor. The answer for me was to nest my HDV sequence into an anamorphic SD sequence for output. I’ve heard some people say to never use the export using Compressor command and to always go out to QT first. I love the feature. I’m constantly turning out new approval copies, and it’s one less set of files to keep up with.
Have you tried just exporting your sequence to h.264 from FCP using QT conversion? Might be worth a shot.
I’m by no means a compressionist, so take this with a grain of salt.Zak
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I figured it out. It is a bug, but there is a workaround.
If you go into your “frame controls” in the inspector window in Compressor and turn it to “CUSTOM,” it should be fixed. I believe it has to do with the “resize filter.” Putting your frame controls at “off” or “automatic” continued to stretch out my titles and effects, but putting it at custom and changing my “resize filter” to “fast,” “better,” or “best.” All resized my titles and effects correctly. Of course “better” and “best” looked much better than “fast.” So, my new preset has frame controls at custom & resize at better.
Word,
Sam
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