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Brian Semple
May 18, 2009 at 11:59 pm in reply to: very poor realtime playback

I think I have same settings for audio & video. I mean I’ve been shooting in HDV and capturing in HDV (until recently with upgrade where I can capture in ProRes). and then have timeline compressor in ProRes 422. That’s the idea in using ProRess isn’t it? So why do I have to render everytime I change something… just to view it in true speed.
Brian Semple
May 18, 2009 at 11:54 pm in reply to: very poor realtime playback

Using exactly same hardware as with Avid. Not sure what hardware you mean but using ATI RAdeo X1900 graphics card, Intensity Pro card, & usual decks.
Brian Semple
May 18, 2009 at 11:49 pm in reply to: very poor realtime playback

I’ll try that and take 1GB out to start with. Thanks
Brian Semple
May 18, 2009 at 1:21 am in reply to: very poor realtime playback

Forgot to mention that my timeline is set to Unlimited RT and if I change the playback settings to Medium or Low it makes no difference to playback. Working on commercial now and I’m having to render every time I change anything…. aaarrrrhhh!
Brian Semple
March 6, 2009 at 7:46 am in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

I’m sure you’re right David… but wish I knew what. Off home now so will get back later. Cheers
Brian Semple
March 6, 2009 at 6:11 am in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

Still been testing and got a much better result when using Viktor’s method but still compression artifats and interlacing.
David, you mentioned the AC3 file but how do you get that because when using the DVD Best Quality in Compressor there is no audio by default. I tried adding audio but the picture quality got even worse. Have added a FF to show you problem…look around the lettering. Shots with effects on them look like this. Nothing seems to work. I should be able to get pristine quality for DVD.
Tried uploading the jpg file but says file not supported. You know what files are supported…. doesn’t say anywhere.
Brian Semple
March 6, 2009 at 5:01 am in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

Thanks. I will give that a go. Nothing else seems to work.
Brian Semple
March 6, 2009 at 3:42 am in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

Cheers. Shoot on a Sony Z1 at 25fps PAL. Brought shots into FCP in 2 ways – capturing in HDV & importing from Firestore harddrive…. both have compressor as HDV 1080i50 & Pixel Aspect as HD(1440×1080)

Just had a thought over lunch… could I have a faulty MPEG2 codec which Compressor, DVDSP, Toast all use. Because the quality is terrible from all of them. If I make a self contained QT file from FCP it looks fine, apart from interlacing effects which will be my next problem to solve.
Brian Semple
March 6, 2009 at 1:22 am in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

Thanks David again. Yes, all your steps are the ones I have done… and the quality is terrible. This is why I cannot work out what is going wrong. Would Quicktime version affect it?
By changing the Compressor to ProRes, is that creating a timeline in ProRes then even though originals are still HDV?
I’m at a loss. And yes I’m sure I’ll get the hang of FCP. At the moment I find it very sluggish and have to render everytime I change a effect to be able to playback. I’m not used to this.
Brian Semple
March 5, 2009 at 11:16 pm in reply to: Very, very poor quality MPEG2

Thanks David. Basically all I did was make the Compressor ProRes 422, and the Render Control codec ProRes 422 as well so I thought at least the effects are being rendered in ProRes. I have been looking at other posts with no luck and some people say to cahnge all the timeline shots to ProRes you need to render it all, but no one said how you do that. I find FCP has so many variables and settings that sometimes I don’t know where I am and get so confused.

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