Brad Wright
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I would not recommend using MPEGStreamclip as it has tons of bugs. Try using Compressor to convert AVI video files instead.
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Forget streamclip, use Compressor. You’ll have a fully supported product.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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If you export your footage to a stand alone Quicktime file from Final Cut Pro, do you still see the sound sync problem? It could be the speed of your computer that is causing the drift.
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I would recommend not de-interlacing the footage. If you can keep the video interlaced using compressor and have compressor properly encode as interlaced H.264 it will save you a huge amount of time. Use the H.264 setting for Blu-ray and customize it with a 20 megabit bit rate and single pass encoding. The finished file will be an MTS file instead of a Quicktime movie however. You can convert it to a Quicktime movie by re-wrapping it with BlueX which allow it to be read by any editing system that doesn’t support MTS. It’s a few steps, but it’s the fastest way of getting all your footage to work. I would recommend running a test of a minute or so and see if this works for your client.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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Is the video interlaced or non-interlaced? Looks like a 20 megabit bit rate is what you are aiming for. You should be able to get a reasonable quality using an H.264 single pass encode in compressor. At the end, select a job action to run an Automator workflow. Create an ftp uploader in automator.
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Did you use the send to Color option in Final Cut Pro or did you export the video as a Stand Alone Quicktime file? Do you have your original ungraded sequence in Final Cut still?
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You want to export to a stand alone Quicktime movie from Final Cut Pro. I would recommend keeping the footage interlaced and ProRes. De-interlacing video and encoding with H.264 takes a long time. Breaking this process into two steps will shorten the encoding time. Here’s what I recommend.
Quit Final Cut Pro, and then submit the footage to compressor. In compressor go to the frame control tab and turn on de-interlacing. De-interlacing in compressor takes a very long time, but it produce really good results. Turn on all the options for de-interlacing in Compressor. Encode your video to another ProRes file which contains the de-interlaced video. Submit the de-interlaced video to compressor again and encode for H.264 multi-pass.
For DVD encoding, submit the interlaced ProRes file into compressor and encode with MPEG2.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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Wow! That’s a great explanation.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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If you are trying to create interlaced video on a DVD, then you need this horizontal lines in the video. They don’t appear on an interlaced television monitor when resized correctly. I wrote an article on transferring HD footage to DVD for the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro users group that covers all the details of this.
How are you using MPEGStreamclip and with what settings? I don’t recommend using MPEGStreamclip, as it’s not easy to use and I’ve found it has a lot of problems.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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It sounds like a bug in After Effects. 1050×576 is not a 16:9 aspect ratio with square pixels.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.