Chris Walker
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No editing had taken place and I was getting ready to back up. Somehow I got the wrong folder in the trash. From now on, no trashing of anything until I have 2 copies of my files, in 2 different places. But anyway, it will suck big time if I can’t restore these and any advice is greatly appreciated.
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If you make a separate clip of just the part you need stabilized, and that part isn’t super shaky, it will not soon way in when you stabilize.
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Your reply gives me hope. No backup folder since I had not yet updated to 10.0.4. All render files and old versions backed up. It’s about 90 min long and not hard to edit, but 30 hours wasted! Will contact Apple.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I was looking at my fcpx event folders and although I thought I had the “optimize media” box checked when uploading, most of the files there are in folders called original media, and are just .mov versions of the original mts files, very close to the same size. I notice some “transcoded media” folders which contain some massive prores versions of just a few of the originals. Does this mean that the optimized files are only made when files from an event are actually used in a project?
Also, if the difference in quality of output is minimal, what about smoothness of playback while editing? I often get jerkiness when playing back on the full screen. If that difference is ask minimal, then yes, I guess it aces sense to just use the original avchd files.. -
I should add that when I don’t stretch the footage in fcpx and just make an anamorphic 4:3 file in streamclip, the black bands are still there on a 16×9 screen if I use idvd. However, if I make the dvd using compressor, using the exact same streamclip file, the bands are gone. But then I have no menu of course.
Yes, I have now found metadata hootenanny and it’s great for adding chapters, but idvd still produces the black bands.
One other thing: if I export a prores file of my hd footage, and use that in idvd without going to streamclip, the downscaling is fine and there are no black bands. So this is only a problem when I want to chop off the sides. -
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I was making a non-anamorphic sd file, but by stretching the 16X9 footage in fcpx to crop the sides off, exporting a prores 1080 file, and then choosing the prores ntsc 720 by 480 option in Streamclip. Using Streamclip to get better downscaling. I know I could do the crop in streamclip but I wanted to do some panning of uncentered scenes in fcpx. So then, if you choose the 4:3 option in idvd, you should get no black bands, right? I’m assuming it has something to do with making a prores rather than a dv file, so pixel aspect ratios are different. -
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No, garage band didn’t add them; it’s just stretched somehow. Happens with any ntsc 720 by 480 sd file. The workaround i’ve found is to use Streamclip to make an oddly sized sd file, 720 by 525, for import to idvd. It has something to do with pixel aspect ratio settings, but I don’t see where to change that in idvd. -
OK the jerkiness was due to a mistake I made in Streamclip settings. But how to get rid of the black bands?
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Replying to all of you guys..
Wanted to share with you that I found a method that works much better than anything I’ve been able to do in Compressor. What you do is export a prores 422 file of your fcp x project, then open that up in Mpeg Streamclip and export an anamorphic 4:3 version, quicktime PR422 rather than DV. Settings are max quality, better Downscaling, Deinterlace Video, upper field Dom. Also, Cropping: 9 on the L & R to prevent small black bars from appearing due to the aspect ratio conversion. Then use that file to make your compressed mpeg-2 in Compressor, making sure you have aspect ratio set at 16×9. What a difference.. for the first time I see a result that looks better than with footage originally shot in sd.
I’m surprised to hear you say putting the hd footage on an sd timeline works well: when I try it the result is much softer than with SD footage. Did you apply some kid of sharpening or deinterlacing? -
Thanks to all of you!