[Desiree Damon]

I tried the ‘use maximum quality’ option, and that helped a bit. As far as frame mismatch, I thought everything was 24 fps, but there was one nested comp at 29.97. Fixed that too, and it’s still not quite there.

I’m fortunate enough to have time on this project, so I will rebuild the animation to make it so I can pan slower.

I appreciate all the suggestions!

[Desiree Damon]

These are some excellent suggestions. Thank you very much!

I will show all of them to our facilities manager, and see what we can implement.

[Desiree Damon]

Thank you kindly. I’m out in Dallas, Texas, by the way.

One good thing, is that they took the walls all the way up to the building’s ceiling. There are no drop ceilings, everything was blown out and replaced with a grid for my lights. So nothing should be coming in from over the walls.

The areas around the studio, of course, have the ceiling tiles commonly found in office buildings. There are white noise machines up there, which we’ve found to bleed through as well, but we’ve located the offending units and are in the process of moving them. That problem should be solved soon.

Another good thing, the air conditioning vent was done right, as far as I can tell. They don’t make noise.

So the sound, as far as I can tell, is just normal office noise – copy machines, footsteps, loud people.

I know I’m likely getting some bleed through the door, even though it’s quite a heavy one. And I know none of the walls, inside or out, have any real acoustic treatment on them. I’ve been asked to provide recommendations on all of this, and I’m not sure what to do. I don’t know what products will really dampen that kind of noise.

I’d appreciate any kind of advice you can give. Because I refuse to accept a hopeless situation. I have a job to do! And this room is part of it!

[Desiree Damon]

Wow, this solution sure saved my day. Thanks for posting it.

[Desiree Damon]

This is probably useless to you now, but I was searching the forums frantically looking for an answer to this problem… And then I found something.

In CS5 at least, the aspect ratio controls aren’t found in the export settings. I had to go to file/Interpret footage, then I could change my aspect ratio. Everything went perfectly after that.

[Desiree Damon]

I’ve been having problems too, with snow leopard. It took me a while to realize that the reason why nothing else was working is that snow leopard wipes the mpeg 2 playback component.

I got this info from mpeg streamclip’s website:

You have to reinstall or restore your MPEG-2 Playback Component.

If you have a Time Machine backup of your System folder, then open the /System/Library/QuickTime folder, enter Time Machine and go back in time until you see the QuickTimeMPEG2.component file; select that file and then click Restore.

If you purchased the MPEG-2 Playback Component from the Apple Online Store, then you probably still have the DMG file that contains the installer. Use Spotlight to search for “QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg”: if you find a file with that name, double-click it and then in the disk image, double-click the installer package for Intel Macs.

If you purchased the MPEG-2 Playback Component from the Apple Online Store but you can’t find the QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg file, you can download the file again from the Apple Online Store if you remember the Apple ID used when you originally purchased it (if you forgot your Apple ID then go to Apple iforgot). Visit the Apple Online Store, click on “Account” in the store menu, then click “Downloadable Software Purchases,” enter your Apple ID and password, and click the link to the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component to download it again.

If you obtained the MPEG-2 Playback Component from the installation of Final Cut Studio, then you can reinstall it again from the Final Cut Studio DVD. Insert the DVD and use the Finder’s Go menu > Go To Folder… command to get to the /Volumes/Final Cut Studio/Installer/Packages/ folder inside the DVD. Locate the QuickTimeMPEG2.pkg or the QuickTimeMPEG2Pro.pkg installer: double-click it to reinstall the MPEG-2 component.

That should help.

[Desiree Damon]

That did help a little, but not enough. Thankfully, I just figured out my problem. It WAS a setting issue.

Apparently loading a sequence preset of DV NTSC and then checking the anamorphic box will not produce the same quality as selecting the sequence preset for DV NTSC Anamorphic. It makes no sense, since whether the anamorphic box is checked the only difference I can find between the two… but when I loaded the latter setting, flicker filter worked as it was supposed to and I don’t even need the extra blur.

Thanks for the suggestions, though!

[Desiree Damon]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, even a radius of 1 makes the text of the website video unreadable. And it still flickers.

The video plays perfectly in AE and perfectly in Quicktime. I tried exporting it again in quicktime just for giggles, but whenever I import it into FCP, it looks terrible.

Is there a setting in FCP that needs to be changed?