[Chidi Onyejuruwa]

So I was able to get the video up! Definitely was a pain in the butt but after going through each shot as I mentioned before and scaling up (most needed 113% with a few others needing as much as 301%!) everything looks good. Just wanted to put a link up to the final product here for you guys to see if interested in before and after.

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Still have the black bars for some odd reason but I’m assuming because I used 1920 x 1080 resolution…Anyway, it looks good so I could careless at this point. Lesson learned and thanks for all your help guys!

[Chidi Onyejuruwa]

I appreciate your comment but like I mentioned in the prior post this was my first project, and as you mentioned, I had absolutely no understanding of workflow. I knew how to use the program, but had no idea formats played such a major role in the final output, let alone the effect on “workflow” as you put it. Just posting my experience with the program here for others to see if they ever come across the same problem being as the learning curve for non-linear video editing isn’t very forgiving(in my experience anyway).

I left the video running in compression last night on my buddies computer so when I get over there I’ll see how it came out. Otherwise I’ll just bring it home and use Adobe Media Encoder (which I recently learned is a better compression tool anyway) to get it YouTube ready.

[Chidi Onyejuruwa]

Ok, so after going over the entire project again with one of my classmates I’ve found out that I started the sequence in the wrong aspect ratio causing some of the clips to be different sizes than others (Which is why the black bars appeared in the final version even though it is widescreen footage).

Started a new sequence and copy pasted the project there. After that I went through and scaled up each individual shot to fit properly on screen. After rendering(which took about 15 mins) I am now exporting to proresHQ 1920×1080 (thanks for the advice there Olin) to split the workload on this poor machine.

Currently waiting for the prores conversion to finish then off to compressor and then hopefully Youtube. This was my first time working with FCP and this rookie move cost me a lot of time and energy. I’ll let you guys know how it goes!

[Chidi Onyejuruwa]

Everytime i try to render the file over here the wait time just gets higher and higher. I think I’m doing a pretty simple error and have to go back and resize all the footage because I set the sequence to the wrong aspect. I’ll let you guys know how things turn out and let you see the final…when I eventually get to it.

And by the way I don’t have access to the original file I uploaded to youtube on this machine.

[Chidi Onyejuruwa]

1920 × 1080
H.264, Linear PCM
(1-1-6)
00:50
2
45,292

This is the info I pulled from one of my shots. Taken directly from the camera(Canon 1D) to the work machine. I had to render every time I moved something around but learned my lesson from that. I’m currently trying out the second recommendation now but in the meantime will show you the vid to give you an idea of what I mean.

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The videos max size is 480 but if you were to see the other video on my page its is able to get up to 1080. Also, I’ve read that since the video will be converted to a flash video once on the site that converting it to flash myself would help keep some of the quality. Was just wondering what your thoughts were on this method.