[Colin Williams]

Thanks. I’ll have to check it out. It looks as though you can do some really interesting things with it. I was under the impresson that QT with some xml code was capapble of doing almost the same thing.

[Colin Williams]

I should take a chill pill.

This is for DVD as a deliverable. So you’re saying use DV as the editing codec? Cool. But before I export out to Compressor or a movie for Squeeze, do I then change to a higher quality codec? Or do I export the sequence as DV and then compress that one even further in the aformentioned programs.

Some of the source files were encoded with h.264 out of After Effects. (It actually renders faster than the Animation codec. or maybe it’s my imagination)

I am using a Blackmagic card, but that doesn’t seem to speed things up very much unless it was captured that way. Obviously. But if I’m running back and forth between After Effects, Photoshop, FCP, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and so forth, how can I determine what is the best way to keep file conversion consistent and yield the best results as I skip between apps while mixing graphics and compositing etc. A consistent “fileflow” to avoid codec misrepresentation, which I’ve clearly exhibited already it seems, and allow easy integration.

Is this making sense? I usually don’t read over what I wrote. Otherwise, I would spend way to much time editing my own thoughts and therefore adding to the crunch that I’m always trying to avoid.

Anyway.

I really appreciate your help on this matter and taking the time out of you busy schedule to assist me.

Cheers,
Colin Williams
https://www.pensivecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

I should take a chill pill.

This is for DVD as a deliverable. So you’re saying use DV as the editing codec? Cool. But before I export out to Compressor or a movie for Squeeze, do I then change to a higher quality codec? Or do I export the sequence as DV and then compress that one even further in the aformentioned programs.

Some of the source files were encoded with h.264 out of After Effects. (It actually renders faster than the Animation codec. or maybe it’s my imagination)

I am using a Blackmagic card, but that doesn’t seem to speed things up very much unless it was captured that way. Obviously. But if I’m running back and forth between After Effects, Photoshop, FCP, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and so forth, how can I determine what is the best way to keep file conversion consistent and yield the best results as I skip between apps while mixing graphics and compositing etc. A consistent “fileflow” to avoid codec misrepresentation, which I’ve clearly exhibited already it seems, and allow easy integration.

Is this making sense? I usually don’t read over what I wrote. Otherwise, I would spend way to much time editing my own thoughts and therefore adding to the crunch that I’m always trying to avoid.

Anyway.

I really appreciate your help on this matter and taking the time out of you busy schedule to assist me.

Cheers,
Colin Williams
https://www.pensivecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

Wow. You have some serious experience. Want to give me some?

Maybe I am insane. However, everything I’ve read about H.264 does not necessarily point to web outlets as a purpose for the codec. I just underrstood that it was a new algorythm with the implication that the quality was superb to previous mpeg standards and filesizes had been significantly reduced. So, I guess I was trying to save space and retain quality with a ratio not to out of whack. In my worthless opinion, the H.264 looks just as good as the Animation codec to my eye with about 20% of the resulting file size. If not more.

If it helps at all, this is what I read: “The intent of H.264/AVC project has been to create a standard that would be capable of providing good video quality at bit rates that are substantially lower (e.g., half or less) than what previous standards would need (e.g., relative to MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), and to do so without so much of an increase in complexity as to make the design impractical (excessively expensive) to implement. An additional goal was to do this in a flexible way that would allow the standard to be applied to A VERY WIDE VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS (e.g., for both low and high bit rates, and low and high resolution video) and to work well on a very wide variety of networks and systems (e.g., for broadcast, DVD storage, RTP/IP packet networks, and ITU-T multimedia telephony systems).” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC)

So it seems there might be more uses for the codec other than web applications. Who knows?

I just wanted something better quality than DV-NTSC, lower filesize than 10/8-bit (Blackmagic) and Animation that could translate well to another mpeg (that being 2) format for DVD encoding.

Does that really sound insane? If so, I’ll take that big white pill… right over there! And where’s Jiggles, my fat, pink teddy bear?!

Cheers,
Colin Williams
http://www.pensivecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

Same here. I’m not sure why Eureka’s plugins seem to have a problem with FCP5.

Colin

[Colin Williams]

I had effects applied to some clips that had only worked in the previous version of FCP. I guess FCP 5 only translated some of the old 3rd party plug-ins and not the others.

It read certain Eureka plug-ins but not others.

So I went in and deleted the “Film Look” effect that I had applied when working in FCP 4.5 and kept the remaining effects applied and BAM!…they rendered perfectly.

Never underestimate the dummy check!

Thanks for the help.

Colin Williams
http://www.pensivecrow.com

Watch out for https://nucleus.name/ <-----random hacker to watch out for. I work on Macs and still got nailed. Cracked right into my website.

[Colin Williams]

Yes, I did.

However, just as I noticed your post, I went and selected clips individually and rendered them clip by clip. They all rendered except for the first few.

I’m closer, but still lost.

Most clips originated with different codecs. So this may have some bearing. But these first few are a mystery to me. They don’t want to render. Like I said in the first post: I’ve tried EVERY render option.

There has to be something holding it back. But what? no idea.

Thanks for the help! Any other clues?

Colin Williams
http://www.pensvecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

Thanks for the suggestion. But…no luck. I tried every render option there is. Nothing. It did render the ‘Full’ in the ‘render only’ drop-down menu but several clips still have the red line and will not render for some reason. When I select Command+R or Option+R it flashes the status bar as if it’s already rendered. But no change.

Any other suggestions?

Clueless. Still.

Thanks,
Colin Williams
http://www.pensivecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

That makes sense. So if I wanted to soon re-familiarize myself with ProTools (haven’t used it since I was playing with the Toolbox LE 5.0)and integrate that into my workflow, how might I go about that. All the while having hardware control of ProTools from the mixer or DAW, whatever I may decide to choose. I just want it all consolidated (decks, i/o, mixer, video monitor, speaker moitors, etc.) as smoothly as possible without having to do a bunch of patching. I know I sound like I’m reapeating myself. I apologize.

Thanks for all of your knowledge.

By any chance, are you familiar with Sorenson Squeeze?

Colin

https://www.pensivecrow.com

[Colin Williams]

Makes total sense. Thanks a lot! Any thoughts on the Mackie Onyx w/ Firewire board. I would like to buy new. I don’t want a mixer whose ports smell like a dirty mustache.

Thanks.

Colin Williams