Andy Mees
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Not forgetting this new Adobe Premiere 4.0.1 feature of importing an FCP XML … and then using Adobe’s Dynamic Link to open it in AE.
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well, errr … what kind of I/O connections do you have on it? do you have any third party I/O device?
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As Daniel notes, the monitor can likely offer some solutions. It can probably be set to center cut the 4:3 source and therefore provide a full screen aspect correct playback of your 4:3 source, although that does mean that 25% of your image will be cropped, 12.5% each from top and bottom. Alternatively the monitor might be able to stretch the 4:3 source so as to fill the full 16:9 screen, but then the aspect will be wrong ie everything will be distorted, folks will be short and fat, circles will become ellipses etc The only real solution is to create a pan and scan 16:9 version of your edit. That way at least you get to control the cropping and framing on an individual shot by shot basis.
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No, its not possible. Why? Well Tito, you’re not taking into consideration the temporal nature of your captured video. Unless you are shooting a completely static scene, each field of an a interlaced frame will differ slightly, as they were recorded at fractionally different moments in time. You can’t seamlessly stitch them back together as though they were recorded at the same instant ie a progressive frame capture.
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Scott
In the Inspector window’s Actions tab you can set Compressor to run a simple Applescript at the end of each encode job
Something along the lines of set the comments of fileA to the comments of fileB should do it.
Cheers
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you might want to give this a try:
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/watermark-removal–10 -
Hey David
Compressor shouldn’t be that bad! As you are resizing you might want to explore Compressor’s more advanced resizing settings … In the Inspector window, look under the Frame Controls tab. You can enable these controls by clicking in the sprocket icon button and then turning them to On in the popup menu. Try setting the resizing to Best (statistical prediction) … though if you’re happy enough with FCP’s output then maybe consider this just an exercise in seeing how it compares, rather than a search for the right method.
Cheers
Andy -
Roger
Is the project / workflow any more or less stable if you change the timeline codec to ProRes 422 and work with the native XDCAM HD clips in that timeline? I appreciate this doesn’t necessarily address or identify the root of the problem but it may be a relatively painless and effective workaround.
Apologies if you’ve heard this same advice before … you noted that you posted an earlier thread in the FCP forum so chances are I had a bash at it there too!
Cheers
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Bob
You need to detail what format you’re working with, and the exact steps you are taking through your current edit, export and conversion process, otherwise folks will be just guessing at where things might be going wrong.
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Raven
If you you have an old version of DVD Studio Pro (v3 or earlier) then you can reinstall it, then do the upgrade shuffle back to the here and now … that should leave you with the old Quicktime MPEG-2 export component.
Excepted from Apple’s own knowledgebase article: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2853
The first versions of DVD Studio Pro included a simple MPEG-2 encoder, which was enabled by QuickTime, and allowed you to export DVD-compliant MPEG-2 video directly from Final Cut Pro. The QuickTime MPEG-2 encoder was capable of creating good quality MPEG-2 video, and it was designed to do its job quickly.
Later versions of DVD Studio Pro introduced Compressor. Instead of relying on the QuickTime export functions … Compressor offers numerous MPEG-2 creation options, and is capable of excellent quality output—far exceeding that provided by the QuickTime MPEG-2 encoder.
Because of the superior capabilities of Compressor, the QuickTime MPEG-2 encoder is superfluous and is not included with new installations of DVD Studio Pro 4 or Final Cut Studio. If you upgrade applications on a system that already has the QuickTime MPEG-2 encoder, the upgrade won’t remove the encoder; it will still be available for applications that use QuickTime export options. With new installations, you can still export directly from Final Cut Pro to get MPEG-2 output, but you should choose Compressor instead of QuickTime as the export option.
Cheers
Andy