[Becky Balsano]

Thanks so much for your help Shane.
Will plug away.

[Becky Balsano]

Yes – unpredictable. Seeing that clearly at work now.

One more question then. There is a chance that I can finish what I need to on the
timeline without having to add any addition footage other than credits which FCP has no
trouble with.

Because I had success with your help – getting the film into QT, compressor and DVD pro properly –
do you think it would be wise to take what I have here and let it render doing that process again.
before removing the render files.

My concern now is that I won’t even get this version of the film into QT
if it goes into shock after removing the render files
and re-rendering.

If I can get it into QT, Compressor and onto a DVD –
I might at least have a possible product to send out to festivals.
Of course there is no telling if FCP will be able to handle that process again with the
dreaded H.264 in it. Also that will ramp the render files up past the already ridiculous
94 gigs. Just a thought. Desperation speaks.

I will invite you to the head smacking party.

Thanks again for your help.

[Becky Balsano]

Thank you Shane! I will put the sequence setting render
tab to pro res and let it re-render.
Do you think that this is a probable cause for the sudden crashing?
Also noticing some strange audio issues have arisen. Oh goody.

So close and yet so far away.

There will definitely be a “back of the head smacking” event scheduled in the near future.
Unreal.

Thank you!

[Becky Balsano]

Thank you for your message – I’m actually sitting here waiting for an answer.
The render files are on a project I’m still on though. Will this be okay –
and do you know if this large file was caused by export to QT –
as it was 264 being changed to pro res?
to pro res? Do you think this is what could be crashing my FCP?

[Becky Balsano]

Thanks for the tips Rainer! At this point I will have to find a way to finish the film in FCP. My thinking is to delete the 94 gigs of render and let it re-render when I export it as a QT movie.
Shane, from this community has helped tremendously to get it to DVD with it being 264 –
by exporting it as compressor pro res – and with render set as pro res –
My question really is can I delete the 94 gigs of render as I think this is what is causing my program to
crash – and then let it re-render in QT export? Just have to get it to stop crashing long enough to
add a couple more clips. It’s fine as long as I don’t open any new clips out of the bin. I can work in
timeline, add music. I think it must be the large render file.

[Becky Balsano]

Shane, Should I/Can I follow that last paragraph using QT self contained movie instead of REF movie – to DVD pro? Or is it best to do it QT to compressor and DVD presets? Also. mistakenly took the QT directly into pro without compressing and it looks about the same as the compressed.
Is it just that before compression the file is bigger and that’s the issue or is it also to do with the quality. Sorry for the rambling. This is painful.
Great blog – Little frog in HD blog, btw.

[Becky Balsano]

My DVD pro had Rectangular pixels checked – they should be square – yes?

[Becky Balsano]

Shane, Just found this post of yours –
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the “general tab” in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select “16:9 pan-scan.”
: )

[Becky Balsano]

Wow – thank you Shane, for the wealth of information and explaining so well. Really helps remove some of the
mystery and anxiety that has presented in this experience. This is my first film – and the learning curve has been off the charts.

So whatever small change in quality you see between ProREs and H.264 is moot. It’s all going out with the bathwater anyway.

Damn that bathwater. 🙂

Not sure what you mean here. Is it not 16:9…like your source? Or is it wider screen? or squeezed more square…so that people are taller and thinner.

It looks fine in quicktime – it’s when I take it into DVD pro – yes – squeezed and
square taller and thinner – which is kind of weird as it
was fine when took 264 footage into compressor then to quicktime – without the Pro Res change –
(although there were other huge issues with quicktime then – synch jumping – green screen -)
Also did not yet change the render tab to pro res when I rendered – only the sequence setting.
Though it seems I would see that issue in the quicktime as well – not just when I put it into DVD pro.
Perhaps a setting changed in DVD pro.

The pixels should be “square, yes – not rectangle? Also didn’t see anywhere where it says 16:9 –
will look for that. Need to get on DVD pro tutorial to see if something is amiss I suspect.

[Becky Balsano]

Also the Quicktime movie before compressed is massive – is there any way around that? A couple of minutes is something like 1.8 gigs. Crazy big. Suppose a feature film would need to be saved on my 2 or 3 terabyte HDrive.