[David Portugheis]

Rafael, you are a genius! The Copy and Add audio option in Quicktime is amazing!

I couldn’t do the adjustments in FC because I needed to make really subtle sync issues and without being able to properly play back the video this was impossible. But, I realized I could do it in Logic Pro, extracting the audio from one movie, then using it on top of the other (they all opened fine without problem) to syncronize it, then exporting the audio and adding it with Quicktime.

It worked perfectly, the quality is maintained and so is the filesize!

Thanks!!! 🙂

[David Portugheis]

@ Rafael

I don’t blame FC, I think it’s a great program with amazing tools, I only wish it was more versatile and intuitive, it took me ages just to realize that I couldn’t even add a divx file to the sequence…

And I can’t just swap the audio from one video to another, I need to make some small timing adjustments so I need an editor.

@ Dan

Ok I’m trying this now, to convert with compressor, I hope it works 🙂

Thanks to everyone!

[David Portugheis]

Well that’s a shame… 🙁

What happens to people who want to edit divx videos in Mac? They have to install windows on it?

Is there a good editing program for mac that just opens anything?

[David Portugheis]

Just this very second I figured out what was wrong: It was the ‘frame size’ under Sequence > Settings > General. It is at low resolution by default and whatever final resolution I chose for the exporting it was always managing my photographs under that other lower quality. So what I did was make it larger (closer to HD, in my case 1620×1080, to keep the 3:2 aspect ratio of the original pictures) and this immediately made the final video top quality.

As for the aspect ratio changing after exporting all I had to do was select ‘Square’ in Sequence > Settings > General > Pixel Aspect Ratio and then reemport every single photo into the timeline and rendering them all. Now the final video is of great quality and aspect ratio, choosing the H264 codec, .mov format, and export size at Current.

I hope this helps someone caught in the same situation! 🙂

[David Portugheis]

Hi Fiona, thanks again! The final output is to put on youtube as a picture slideshow/music video. I want it to be the highest possible quality, especially when viewing full screen.

I tried everything you told me, I set it at 10 bit uncompressed NTSC, set the field dominance to None, even did it on a completely new project just to make sure the previous settings wouldn’t interfere, but the end result is still exactly the same. Definition on the image is blurry compared to the original, it’s not terrible, but definitely lacks the quality a good slideshow should have. Is there a chance that Final Cut is somehow reducing the quality of the images upon importing?

Thank you!
David.

[David Portugheis]

Hi Fiona! Thanks for the prompt reply.

I’ve tried the uncompressed 10 bit (NTSC) setup but I can’t find anywhere the Field Dominance, not even in Timeline Options…

You say ‘if you choose NTSC’ but there doesn’t seem to be much more than PAL or NTSC as choices, there isn’t an ‘Uncompressed 10 bit only’ option. Maybe what I’m saying sounds silly, I don’t know much about these things…

Thanks again,
David.