[Eric Strand]

You’re double compressing your videos – once when you export them as H.264 out of After Effects and then again in Adobe Media Encoder or whatever other program. Try exporting out of After Effects as an animation or ProRes4444, then give Handbrake a try; it uses a better implementation of the H264 codec. It might give you problems when trying to set the size at 1440×810 though, not sure. If your file is 10 seconds and you’re shooting for 6MB, calculations show you’re going to want a 4.6-4.8 bitrate. Then set the x264 tune drop down to animation.

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[Eric Strand]

What? That mathematically isn’t possible. 30 seconds x 50 megabits per second = 1500 megabits = 187 megabytes. I’m not sure what you can do besides go back to them and point this out. Not like you can change codecs or go to 720, 30 x 50 is still 1500 megabits.

@ericstrand11

[Eric Strand]

He’s not, when I pull up FCP 6 and load the sequence preset DV NTSC 48 kHz, the aspect ratio is NTSC DV (3:2). I’ve always wondered what the deal with that is. Rafael seems to answer it in this thread here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/200/889894

@ericstrand11

[Eric Strand]

Could you give him just the audio? I mean I’m assuming he wants the video as well since that’s a pretty obvious question but…I would open up Compressor, bring your file in and use an iPod preset.

@ericstrand11

[Eric Strand]

Glad to hear it worked out, you’re welcome!

@ericstrand11

[Eric Strand]

Hey Chris, I like to export a self-contained QT movie and bring that into Compressor. I’ve read multiple times on here and in articles by people like Larry Jordan that this helps with compression time. Also, if you go into your Sequence Settings then Render Control tab, change Codec to ProRes; this will help speed up rendering times. I would render your whole timeline after you change the Render Control, then export a self contained QT movie, bring that into Compressor, drag the best quality 90 minutes onto your video, change Resize in Frame Controls to Best, use bit budget from Ken Stone (https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/bit_budget.html) and submit your movie. It is still going to take quite a long time, but I wouldn’t think 54 hours.

@ericstrand11

[Eric Strand]

Are you getting a green render bar or a red render bar? Is the stock footage H.264? FCP doesn’t play well with H.264, but you say you’re using ProRes so you should be getting a green render bar if you drop a HD ProRes clip into the SD timeline.

[Eric Strand]

Yes, the Hyperdeck shuttle records at a very high bitrate, so your only option is to re-compress. MPEG Streamclip is a free encoder for Mac and PC that creates H264 files which you can upload. You don’t say what resolution or frame rate you’re recording at but a rough estimate is that for a 90 minute file at 1280×720 29.97 frames, you’re going to need to encode at 1300 kilobits per second.

Here is a tutorial on using MPEG Streamclip to encode: https://youtu.be/zwuELmK_ZrA

https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

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[Eric Strand]

Hi Dan,

Jan Ozer has a write up over at Streaming Learning Center titled What is H.264…not sure this is what you’re looking for but seems like a good place to start.

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/what-is-h264.html

[Eric Strand]

Not sure but other FCP gurus on the COW usually suggest analyzing the file with a tool like MediaInfo to find out what your file actually is, as opposed to how FCP interprets it, which as you know, can be wrong.