[Alexander Kallas]

Correctly set, Compressor in FCP studio with optical flow technology, (set in the Frame Controls tab of the inspector) will give you the best software conversion.
This has been described in this forum many times.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Rafael Amador] “You can do it al in one rendering-export.
I would do it this way:
– Edit in a NTSC DV sequence.
– Color correction. Then drop the Chroma Smoothing (but set it before the CC filter. Must be the first one).
– Set the graphics and whatever you need to add.
– When your sequence is finished, set it to 8 or 10b Unc (if you set the sequence to render in High precision).
Then you have three options to send to Compressor. The easiest (and the best) is to send from the FC time-line.
Then choose one of the presets for standard conversion.
As I told you yesterday, set the Frame control to ON. And in the Output fields, set it to “Upper-first”. 8 and 10b Unc, are expected to be “lower-first” in NTSC, but “Upper-first” when PAL.
Anyway Chang, build your NTSC DV sequence, and when ready we can workout the problems that could arise.
rafael
“

Hi Raf,
Strange but good, how one thread links to another.
I must challenge the above theory on 8 or 10-bit uncompressed from a DV time-line.
The field order won’t change in DV>8 or10-bit uncompressed.
You have been sucessful inspite of this error, because in Compressor as you said in another post, if you transcode to m2v with field order the “same as source”, all will be well, so your error doesn’t surface.
Does this make sense?
Just read this post, https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/997809
and comment back to me.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Andy DeVries] “For as long as I can recall I’ve had thin black bars show up on the left and right (vertical) margins in 4:3 when capturing footage from my canon gl2 into final cut HD”

Simply what you are seeing is the overscan area which Cannon’s GL2 ignores,(hence the black, the pixels are working inside the TV-safe area))
Don’t do anything!
Don’t touch the dimensions, you will never see on TV, they fall outside the TV-safe area.
For the Web you may want to crop these sides off, but don’t disort with scaling.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Rafael Amador] “No really Jeremy. MPG2 can be Upper or Lower. As long that the player knows which field have to read first is OK.
True

In PAL-land if you make a DVD from DV footage is Lower,
True

and if you make from 8/10b Unc will be Upper, otherwise you would need Shift-fields etc.
Rafael “
No, it is still lower.
Check in FCP easy set-up for PAL DV, if you change compressior to 8 or 10 bit it is still lower field first, but as you said if you transcode to m2v with field order the “same as source”, all will be well.
BTW 1080i is not described as PAL, it is just 1080i50. PAL is always 720×576, either 4:3 or anamorphic 16:9.
1080i is 1440×1080 and is upper field first.
Confusing isn’t it!
Use FCP’S easy set-up and avoid all this confusion.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

This has been discussed many times.
If you have totally edited your project in a DV time-line, there is no advantage in then rendering to 10-bit uncompressed.
Where this does help is if you are doing any text, compositing, etc on top of your video, it should come out cleaner ie finish in DV BEFORE going to 10-bit, THEN do your text.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

I’ve asked this before
To any genius…
I’ve got a G4 Powerbook that won’t boot from it’s Panther install disc, (boots ok from Disk Warrior)
the black dropdown restart screen appears, and asks for power off .
Apart from this, the Powerbook behaves flawlessly.
????

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

Nobody wants to answer this so far, so I’ll jump in and say “good post”
This whole field is an evolution, and as this stuff gets more evolved the confusion can become greater.
More demands are placed on hardware (expensive dongles that you can’t avoid)
All of the terminology can be explained via Google, there is really no one text that will suffice.
The help manuals for FCP Studio have most of what you need, but these are ingredients only, and you still have to bake the cake.
The best suggestion I can give you is to get into a simple project (a real one) and blunder and crash your way through that. We learn best by mistakes, and these forums will get you back on track quickly.

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

something has gone wrong, check the instructions in the compressor help menu
“clusters
choosing for distributed processing 236
copying options 35
selecting 56
selecting storage locations 224
submitting jobs to 246
cluster segmenting 117
“cluster controllers
configuring with shell commands 245–246
enabling/disabling 245, 246”

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Jason Porthouse] “Being a little too sure of myself, I thought I’d be clever and set up a virtual cluster.”

Exactly how did you do this part? Some of the data got lost during the render.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

You could try something really simple, like color-labelling the clips.

Cheers
Alexander