Christopher Mcdonell
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Wow! I right clicked on Field Dominance, set to None, and everything is crisp and clear. Thanks mate. I’ll be doing this to all my Motion files now.
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Wow, that’s a good tip. I had to buy a Snow Leopard disk from Apple just for Rosetta. Took time and money.
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I would give Soundsoap a go. Bias Peak used to come bundled with FCP, vs 3 I think. They made Soundsoap and it has since been developed into vs 3, now sold on Soundness. I’ve used it for noise reduction quite a bit. But it also removes pops, clicks, hum, rumble, etc. You can find it here:
https://www.soundness-llc.com/soundsoap3.html
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Is this your experience alone? I think we need to hear from others. I’m getting ready to upgrade myself, especially now that a new OS is on it’s way.
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Hey. Now that 10.9.3 is out, is anyone experiencing any audio problems using Mavericks?
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Most websites are 980 pixels wide. For that reason I think 960 x 540 is an optimum size (essentially 50% HD). I played around quite a bit with various settings and settled on 2500Kbps with 224 stereo audio. For my HD (high-quality option) which most players offer, I upload a 5Mbps 540p. Even in full screen on a 27″ TBD, this looks pretty good. I also upload a 360p option at 1500Kbps for mobile. I never chince on audio though! If you have the option, as you do in Compressor, you’ll also want Fast Start selected. Not to mention using the resizing On settings.
Obviously the lower the bitrate, the smoother your playback. I think people generally have at least 5Mbps download speed now (I have 50), but in coffee shops you’re lucky to get 1.5. So picture quality vs interrupted play… that’s the balance you need to find.
Keep in mind that mp4 will not play on Firefox. Most players do Flash fallback but your picture might stutter as a result. I’m not sure how Amazon works. Bit if you’re uploading to your own site, you’ll also need to create webm videos (firefogg.org)
Oh and personally, I would never cut down the frame rate. Too big a sacrifice.
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I’ve read of people having audio problems with 10.9.2. The betas for 10.9.3 specify audio being an area of focus. So perhaps the next Mavericks update will resolve these issues?
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Do a search in this forum and you’ll find another thread like yours (when mavericks was released) with all your answers. Cheers
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Hey Robert. Yes, noticeably better. As to your question, there doesn’t seem to be a need to use the Compressor de-interlace filter when you can just set the fields to none by turning Frame Controls on. I’m sure someone else here knows better. But when I play the two videos side by side where one has graphics de-interlaced, and the other graphics progressive… huge difference.
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So I did what I proposed in the steps above and it worked perfectly.
I sent my interlaced SD footage to Compressor (without the graphics) and transcoded to ProRes 422 HQ with frame controls on, changing fields to none (de-interlacing, but not with the filter, set at best, best, better). I then changed my original timeline (a duplicate of it) to match: ProRess 422 Progressive. I replaced the interlaced footage with the new de-interlaced ProRes footage. Then enabled the graphics and titles (now in a progressive timeline). Rendered. And exported as mp4’s for web.
I compared the final result with that of just de-interlacing everything (graphics included) and the difference is remarkably noticeable. It’s noticeable in FCP too. Especially with floating text.