[Billy Morocco]

Tom,

Thanks. The QT Export shows as 720×480. That Conform box is unchecked.

When I check Clean it thins to 640×480

And production thins to 655×480. I have to admit, I wasn’t aware of those controls.

As I said. the movie looks okay. I am attaching a clip of the credits – where I do notice some stuttering (but I am not on a Broadcast Monitor). Is this within the normal parameters?

Note: I’m not sure this will be at all indicative. I will check on a good external display when in the office.

Let me describe what I saw on Sunday:

In the QT export I was seeing large, full screen jitters, like a quick freeze and then the player caught up to itself. Like shuttling through a timeline or

almost like the BLINK filter… but the audio was not stuttering. This is what made me think it was some frame rate issue.

[Billy Morocco]

Tom,

Thanks so much, again.

I just did another export to QT, and… it plays fine. Must’ve been an overheated graphics-card glitch, maybe?

The QT info does fluctuate between 23 and 24.61 – I did not recall seeing that with 24pN footage.

Also… under Sequence-> Settings -> Advanced I see that the export is set to 23.976 (fine) but it is also set to Interlaced… Should that be changed when doing an export with this footage?

Anyway thanks again. I was doing this for a 48hr contest and was literally rendering and messing with Compressor in the car. Thanks to these forums, I knew I had followed the procedure for Capture… and my problems didn’t fit any of the problems I was perceiving.

Thanks to you, I am confident, again, that QT can play 24frames/ps.

Now just waiting for that 64 bit upgrade.

[Billy Morocco]

Tom,

Thanks for continuing with me on this. I’ll stick with the issue, which was shot with the DVX100a set to 24pA.
I have the easy set-up that includes the Advanced Pulldown.
Sequence settings include Advanced Pulldown.

I captured with Adv Pulldown Removal.

The export to QT stutter and flicker even on locked-down shots. Even just someone talking.

I don’t have my scratch disk here or I would try it again. But I do remember that the info window for QT showed Framerate: 24, and sometimes 24.xx.

I don’t know if that helps. I will do another export when I get home tonight and perhaps investigate further.

Bill

[Billy Morocco]

I’ll be damned…

The very next post I happened to read (which was about Mastering, not 24pA) was answered by David Weiss with a point to the Sequence->Settings.

So here is where my problem came from. My Timebase is 23.98, but I am set up to export DV – NTSC.(pic attached, I hope).

So what compressor settings should I use? Can I just export as DVCPROHD 24?

I’ve never really had to work on this end. I have so far exported in whatever I edited in (except when using RED footage once).

Thanks if you will back me up/clarify this.

[Billy Morocco]

Tom,

Thanks, I wanted to have that back-up about the future work. The person who shot this footage edits on FCE, and insisted that they “always just edit” and have never had problems.
I said that they are remarkably lucky, cuz if you try to edit on a duped frame… that would be bad.

Now about the first question. Yes, I assumed I could just export to a QT that plays 23.98. That’s what I’ve done with P2 (24pN) fooage.

But the quicktime files stuttered A LOT. is there something I am missing?

both the clips and the Sequence were matched 23.98.

Thanks.

[Billy Morocco]

Hi,

This post has been helpful, but I wonder if I can add a follow-up. I just used a DVX100a for the first time, and went the route of Removing Pulldown on Capture.

Now I needed to get this out for QT deliverable (did not know that when I started, – was for a wknd contest).

I’ve used the HVX at 23.98 and thought I’d just export. But that, clearly, didn’t work. So to ADD BACK the pulldown…

I printed to Tape with a deck. and also followed the COmpressor method.

My question is, when people on this forum refer to “you’ll be able to add the pulldown back” – is there something in FCP, itself that does this? Or did I do what needed to be done?

For the future: is it in fact OKAY to just import the 24pA footage at 29.97, and edit away? I could see the duped frames so convinced everyone that we HAD to do the pulldown.

Also – if using the DVX at 30p – what is the capture preset for that? I’ll search the forums for this one.

I don’t have a hardware card.

Thanks a million for all the help available here.
Bill

[Billy Morocco]

Daniel,

Thanks for the reply.

I am familiar with Streamclip. It seemed to do the job. I have a single .ts file which looks good.

I am going to try to get my colleagues to go ahead with a purchase of Episode Encoder.

In the meantime I may have to change the bit rate or ad a leader/bars. In that case, I would need use Streamclip on the Video_ts folder and make a file, – which I would then “Convert to TS”.

Would something like ProRes 422 be the best bet for this? Which I could then add to in FCP.

Thanks in advance,

I’ll be trying out different machinations.
Bill

[Billy Morocco]

I am trying “Convert to TS” in Streamclip menu. Is that correct?

I assumed I would be sending the client a m2v file

I’ve never worked with the .ts extension.

[Billy Morocco]

Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I’m working on using that now.

I have copied the DVD as a folder containing VIDEO_TS AUDIO_TS to my desktop.

So now I can just use Streamclip with those settings? I guess it’ll be two exports, one for audio and one for video.

I was concerned that I would have to go to ProRes and then back out to m2v and Ac3 streams.

Anyway, I’m trying things now, but if I am missing a key, let me know. Thanks,

Bill

[Billy Morocco]

Thanks, fellas, for the info.

We shot two sit-down interviews (in a ski gondola!) at 720p24pn. AFter L&T, I exported selected clips, and used Compressor to conform them for my SD sequence.

This worked for the purposes of making an SD DVD.

(Thinking out loud)This worked because the 24pn (23.98) footage was actually “over 60”, right?
Looking at the Clip Properties->Format shows “Compressor: DVCPro HD 720p60”

That’s the story, isn’t it?

Shane, I think I understand your workflow, but before I ask another question I’m going to try some 1080 shooting, which I have not yet done with the HVX.

Thanks again,

Bill