[Ed Dooley]

Did you trash your prefs, repair disk permissions, use Disk Warrior? All the usual stuff.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

So what happens when you do that? Does it create a distorted file?
Ed

[Michael Pierre] “I tried that, but for some reason it wasn’t translating to the size. I must be doing something else wrong”

[Ed Dooley]

Scary thought? LOL! I just finished a one-hour documentary shot on Beta, with a half-dozen 1-frame drop outs that I removed
exactly as I described, and I challenge anyone to pick them out. At least one of them was on a frame during a push, and it’s
completely invisible. I’m not saying that it’s any substitute for a good filter, but it’s many times faster (and did I say virtually
invisible) than the method you suggest. Pulling one frame out and replacing with the adjacent frame, and it only lasting 1/30th
of a second, is consistent with Max Wertheimer’s Experimental Studies on the Study of Motion (and all that Beta Movement and Pi
Phenomenon mumbo jumbo). 🙂
Your approach saves more of the undamaged part of the frame, but why spend all that time for a result that doesn’t appear any better to a viewer.
In other words, *not* a huge difference!
So, replace a whole frame, a part of a frame, or let a filter do it for you. Easy to do it my way to see if it works for you, easy, but
much more time-consuming to do it David’s way and compare, and probably easiest to buy a filter.
Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “[Ed] “I do it by removing the offending frame and replacing it with the
previous or next frame.”

Yikes, that’s a scary thought Ed. You mustn’t have much movement in your movies. May I suggest that you don’t do this when moving to HD, when you see that duplicated frame at six times the resolution you’re presently viewing at it may shock you.

Cloning part of a frame from the next or previous frame is the way this is normally done, and there’s a huge difference. The simple way to do this right in FCP is to duplicate a few frames of your bad video and place that on the video track directly below. Now, slide that one frame ahead, or one frame back depending on the best good frame. Now place an oval shaped mask on the top layer and move and size it until it covers your dropout and shows through the top layer revealing the same section of the frame from the good video below without the dropout. Then, place a softedge on the mask and adjust until you’re happy. There are plugins available that do this more easily, and this is certainly quite easiliy accomplished in both AE and Combustion, but its right there in FCP too.”

[Ed Dooley]

Make a custom preset with that ratio. If you want your web file to be, say, 240 pixels high, set the width 2.37
times that, or 569 pixels wide. Save the new custom preset.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

If I don’t have many of them, I do it by removing the offending frame and replacing it with the
previous or next frame. Looks good. If there’s a lot I, well…. I do the same thing.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

The advantage in size by having them separate is there, but you do give up a couple of things
by doing it that way. The IO has an Audio Word Clock, 8 channels of optical digital audio I/O (ADAT),
and 4 channels of AES/EBU audio I/O. It might have other things too, but that’s all I can think of.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Is there some reason why you don’t simply lower the Master audio? Are your levels all over the place
and lowering the Master will make some too low? If so, you better take the time and remix the audio
so it sounds professional. You can also normalize the audio, you can compress it too.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

My first suggestion would be to change your tag-line until you have a monitor. 🙂
Do you have a camera? You can run it through that if you do.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Now you’re getting out of my comfort zone. As for your bit-rate though, there are a number of broadcast
MPEG-2 encoders (I know Grass Valley makes one) that will compress to over 50Mb for broadcast. I don’t
know about their I-frame-only encoding, but for very high bit-rate, you might look at broadcast encoders.
Procoder and Main Concept will also compress to very high bit-rates.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

BTW, a lot of MPEG-2 encoders allow you to play with the GOP. Procoder on PC is great, as is Main Concept.
I use Compressor and Bitvice on Mac, and although I prefer Bitvice, it doesn’t allow any GOP settings except
Open or Closed. Compressor allows tweaking.
Ed