Brad Elliott
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We have had success sending H264 files at best quality/multi-pass.
It is not ideal but if they have QT(Mac or PC) we have never had an experience where someone couldn’t open it. They may have to convert it to whatever they need.
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If you do not have a Kona or Black Magic card converting 24 to 29.97 is going to create more problems than not. That doesn’t mean it cannot be done but hardware conversion trumps FC for what you would need to do for your final deliverable.
You could edit in whatever you shoot and then take your FC QT to a post house and have them do the roll off. It will probably be expensive but you will eliminate so many potential headaches that you could encounter unless you know someone with a card and/or a deck.
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Compressor is a wonderful program but HD to SD conversion for DVD can be consistently inconsistent.
One work-around I have found success with is to put the HD in an appropriate SD sequence and render accordingly. Then export to Compressor for DSP.
Try a test with 60 seconds of the most complex footage.
The last resort option and ultimately time consuming one would be to do the SD conversion via a Kona card to tape and then roll it back in.
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Are you trying to do this in the setting window itself without applying it to a movie or dragging it onto a job?
If you drag a setting into the job window you can save and change it.
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Unless your friend has access to some sort of editing software like Premiere or Vegas you do not have a lot of full-proof options.
A best quality 2-pass H264 at your native resolution is one of the best options for cross platform scenarios such as yours.
I presume your deliverable is a data DVD or some sort of drive?
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Your export options are very limited with the QT player version and you shouldn’t be able to export a DV file from and H264 without the full version. H264 is about the only format that will always play on a Mac and a PC as long as they have a version of QT installed.
I believe the full version of QT on Windows is $30. It would probably be worth it if you have a tight turn-around.
Unless your friend is familiar with video I would make sure he knows what dimensions the export from QT needs to be. QT default export size may not match your intended deliverable size.
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Harry,
We use a Kona LHe card and many of our “this shouldn’t work or be the best way scenarios” have been solved by putting our source in a final output sequence and rendering. This is not an absolute but we have had more success than failure. I would be curious to see what your sequence looks like in FC if it was put in a 1080p sequence and then exported to 720p via Compressor or QT.
Most of the files that we run through Compressor never have the frame controls set above the default and everything looks great. Better and best have solved some problems but not always. Most things that we create with Compressor look awesome but I have found it can be consistently inconsistent with some tasks.
Another possible solution for the bottom of the frame issue:
Nest the sequence and open in the viewer and change the scaling in the motion tab to 101 or 102(do not go over 105) and reposition accordingly so you do not have to crop/distort your image. It isn’t ideal but I would choose this over Compressor cropping my image or just cropping the bottom vs. bottom and top. -
As far as I know Muxed mpgs have mpg audio by default and this is why there isn’t a option in Compressor to change this.
The compressor defaults match the source audio as far as bit rate/48kHz etc.
Unless the server accepts an unmuxed version(separate Mpg-2 and aiff) I do not see a way around this unless it accepts another type of file.
Is this need based on a playback quality issue or just trying to have the best audio possible?
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One thing you could try as a last resort
Create a 720p sequence with required specs and put your 1080 sequence in and render for 720p.
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It is hard to say without seeing the problem.
Are you checking it on a PC?
I have made great looking files out of F4Mac and I have had some problem children.
We have the full version of Episode and I prefer the controls that I get with it over Flip4Mac.