Brad Wright
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Here’s a couple of people having problems with stream clip that you might not be aware of.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/999325
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I would absolutely not recommend using MPEGStreamclip to encode H.264. It is still going through Quicktime which is much slower than a hardware encoder. Depending on your platform, I would get a professional DVD ripper that has good customer support. MPEGStreamclip freezes on many DVDs, causes audio sync issues, and drops frames randomly. Other than that, it’s a great product.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Are you on a PC or Mac? DVD ripping can be much faster than realtime if you have a fast enough computer and you aren’t sending it to the web. It’s the web encoding that is the issue. That could take a really long time depending on what quality level you need. If it’s H.264 encoding, you probably need to look at a hardware solution.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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I wouldn’t recommend putting 2 hours of video on a DVD. Break it up to two DVDs and you’ll be much happier with the encode.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Be aware that FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit. You can’t go beyond 4GB in file size. It won’t warn you when you export your video, but it you will get dead Quicktime files in the process.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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It depends on the look that you want. DVDs are always 720×480 for NTSC. Widescreen video is stretched 720. To maximize your efforts, scale your video in FCP to 720×480 anamorphic and then check it on an external monitor. If that looks good, submit that for compression. If it looks bad, change the workflow.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Yes, I second that. Never use your computer monitor to color correct video footage. Always use HD-SDI or firewire out to a calibrated television monitor.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Test your workflow. I’ve found Toast to really mess up the H.264 encoding, and I would recommend Apple Compressor for H.264 encoding as it produces cleaner results. One way to test your work flow is to create a set up Color Bars and test patterns. Run that through your workflow and test. If you aren’t getting what you want, make some changes.
Blu-ray H.264 is 8 bit Ycbcr color space and 4:2:0 color sampling. You probably don’t want to use ProRes 4:4:4 and instead should use ProRes 4:2:2. Make sure you don’t have ProRes applying a gamma to your video. Import the video back into FCP and check the footage on an external monitor after you export it.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Take a look at your sequence settings. The default video options may be DV for FCP and therefore it’s resizing the video to standard definition.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Wow, I really feel very bad for you, but don’t panic. If you still have your original 10 bit video you may be able to save the project, as you can go back and convert the broken clips. Check your sound sync by stepping frame by frame over the video clip. It might not be out of sync because it could be a slow hard drive or computer performance. The original DV PAL should not be linked to the proxies.
Most people aren’t aware of all the problems that MPEGStreamclip can create, as it can seriously mess up your video. You should really have used the media manager to create the proxy files in Final Cut Pro. This way Final Cut has the clip record in the database. Never delete anything in Final Cut until you test your final project. Hard drive space is cheap, but time is really expensive.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.