Eric Strand
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A workaround would be to create an mpeg 4 then compress to h264. Not sure if you’re doing this now but thought I’d throw it out there. If they’re not copy right protected DVDs you could try using MPEG Streamclip to export a file, see if you can get past the 40:30 mark that way.
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A workaround would be to create an mp4, since you say it works, then compress to h264. Not sure if you’re doing this now but thought I’d throw it out there.
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Don’t apologize, I also used the wrong terminology. Videos can be “associated” with a program in that they open in that program. You can right click on your Final Cut Videos and open them in Quicktime no problem. If you want, you can right click on one > get info > and in the Open With section select Quicktime. Then right below that you can click “change all” so that all videos exported out of FCP open with Quicktime.
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Movie files are movie files, they’re not associated with the program. Depends what types of files you have, ProRes, H.264, MPEG2, etc and what wrapper, MOV, MP4, MPG, etc. In Quicktime you can use the movie inspector to find out what codec they are, then check that FCPX supports them (it probably does).
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Since you got the same result from firewire it sounds like it’s a deck issue. I can’t be for certain, but that’s what your troubleshooting seems to indicate. I would scour the deck manual for any type of audio output settings.
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I was able to get it via firewire when it is downconverting, just didn’t know if it was possible when capturing HD. I’ve found the manual not to be the clearest on how to do things.
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So it appears it is not when the proxy is made in CatDV. I had the same bad results when I opened the file in QT Pro 7 and exported it. The file from Compressor plays fine and is an expected size for the quality setting. I should have tested this yesterday but did not have time before I left work. Didn’t know if anyone else had come across this.
QT Pro 7.6.6
OS Lion 10.7.3
Matrox Compress HD with drivers 2.4.0.0014
Compressor 3.5.3
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Great points, everything now is “Share to YouTube” “Post to Facebook””Post to Twitter” etc. Nice conversation. Thanks for the resources Craig.
Eric
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I realized after I wrote my previous message that I guess my issue is that for someone looking to simply encode to WMV there isn’t an obvious solution. Say like John Doe who knows nothing about video wants to create a WMV, I can’t see MEE4 being his option,where as before he probably would’ve stumbled on Media Encoder, but I suppose that is debatable. I was looking for these options here, which I thought could be found in Windows.
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Touche, I’ll admit I don’t know much about Windows Media. I plan on reading up in the next few days. I was just so surprised on how difficult it was to make the file on Windows. I mean Microsoft doesn’t make it to clear that Expression Encoder has replaced Windows Media Encoder. As for the settings, it was whatever the Preset Quality > Balanced settings are. The source file was a 720 H264 8mbps file. I use the default settings in MPEG Streamclip because we only have the 50$ Flip4Mac that doesn’t allow customization.
Eric
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