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Hi Ken –

Render your final video out to a YouTube preset in Compressor at 1080p (1080k isn’t a term used). 1080p means 1920×1080, progressive scan. When you upload and play it back on YouTube, make sure and click on the gear icon in the lower right corner of the screen and select 720p resolution or higher. Your current video loads in 480p, but there is a 720p viewable resolution in YouTube (hit the gear icon). If you upload a 1080p video to YouTube, you’ll have options to view the final footage on YouTube in 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p (default), 720p, and 1080p. Viewing it full screen on YouTube in 480p will account for the blurriness you see.

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Hey Andrew,

I’m having the same issue with the latest version of CC. I exported one WAV file from a P2 AVC Intra 100 clip and got a slightly different start TC, but when I dropped it back into the P2 sequence it synced up fine — weird.

A colleague exported a second WAV file from a P2 clip in CC and it didn’t sync up — PP CC seems to cut off the first part of the audio. Did you ever get answers on this?

Thanks,

Burk

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Thanks Jon!

I’ll have a look.

Burk

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Update June 2013 — I just came across the same issue with a screen record to MP4 with AAC 48k audio. Played in QT and MPEG Streamclip just fine, but could not for the life of me cut the clip or export as anything else!

Tried Rafael’s process, worked like a charm.

Thanks Rafael — very helpful trick.

Burk

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Thanks, that answers it.

I agree it’s a weird request to hand off footage in HDV, though it’s not for mastering purposes. The original footage was shot solid state, and this is an investigation into whether we can dump to our current equipment to dump to tape (no green light yet that client will accept a drive) or will have to rent a DVCProHD deck and hook to a suite with a capture card.

Most of the shows we do master in HDCAM or HDCAM SR.

Thanks again,

Burk

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Hey Shane,

Thanks for the quick response. I’ve rendered the ProRes422 files in an HDV Sequence, then I hit Print to Video, and it begins conforming just fine. The problem is when I try to record sequence TC in the deck via Firewire. TC stutters on the first few frames during capture on the deck (Video and audio capture just fine continuously, but the TC is flickering throughout the process — perhaps I didn’t make that clear before).

When the record process is over, I can play back all video and audio frames, but the TC still flickers throughout the entire 40 second or so test clip.

Any insight? Or does HDV just suck and make posts like this more fun?

Thanks!

Burk

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I’ve read around the COW forum and this is the most direct post about problems with renaming clips in FCP. This may be understood information already, but In FCP 6 you can rename from the browser with two options:

1. Right click on clip in browser, scroll down to Rename, then select Clip to match File.
2. Same process as above, but select File to Match Clip, which renames the source QT file. (Select yes when window pops up asking if you want to change the name of the source file).

Though I shot in HDV, not P2, the process for already digitized files should be the same.

All this fluff is to comment that in my experience, renaming the source file to match the clip in the browser has bugs, and only likes to work when renaming 20 or less clips at a time. If I try to rename more than 20 or so at a time, the source file has the new clip name plus a bunch of old jibberish attached. Go figure.

Final Cut reminds me of an old Volkswagen–cool but kinda quirky.

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FCP 6.0.5
Mac G5 Dual 2.3
4.5 GB ram

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Thanks again Michael,

All good info. The benefit of editing native HDV is of course having proper time code reference as well…

Burk

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Hey Michael,

Thanks for the heads up–I had hear mainly glitchy reports about using FCP6 with Tiger, so it’s good to hear you’ve been having some luck. Have you had any trouble working with graphics and transitions in the native HDV timeline, or do you just render out in ProRes after inserting them before you can see what you’ve got?

Thanks again,

Burk

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Hi Yuliya,

Shane Ross answered my questions with regard to FCP 5, mentioning it was a bug with the P2 import window in that version of Final Cut (read entire thread).

With regard to FCP 6 I’m not the one to answer your questions, although I did have a friend with the same issue. There are many out there (Barry Green inluded I believe) who suggest that Final Cut’s P2 import window is the least stabil way of converting raw P2 file folders into quicktimes at DVCProHD. Other than that, trashing your preferences and re-starting FCP can clear up many issues (it’s kinda like an old Volkswagen that way).

Good luck,

Burk