Gary Milligan
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A red X usually indicates a trial version of an application or, in your case, an effect plug-in. The only way around it is to buy the software.
Gary
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I don’t use either FCP or Blackmagic hardware so this is just a guess – according to your screenshots your source is 8 Bit and you’ve selected 10 Bit in the list. Have you tried the 8 Bit setting?
HTH
Gary
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If you’re unable to re-shoot the interview, and you aren’t happy with results of trying to make it right in whatever audio application you have at your disposal, perhaps you could put in subtitles.
HTH
Gary
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[Rodney Leconte] “Best settings as a file to watch online and for archiving.”
H.264 for online viewing, and either ProRes or DNxHD for archiving. There really isn’t one codec that will do everything.
HTH
Gary
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You’ll have to provide more info about your general workflow in order to get advice that may help you. What format is the original footage? What are your sequence settings in FC? How are you getting from FC to whatever you are using for DVD authoring? What are you viewing your DVDs on? My first instinct is the same as yours – it’s happening during compression. Unless your original footage is SD, what you’re seeing is probably due to scaling from HD to SD. You may be able to do some tweaking in your compression settings to improve your results.
HTH
Gary
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Keep in mind that your original footage is High Def… DVDs are Standard Def. You will never get the same picture quality. There are settings in Compressor that will help with transcoding for DVD but I can’t help with that because I don’t use Compressor – I use BitVice to transcode from HD to DVD files. What are you using to build your DVDs?
HTH
GAry
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[Rodney Leconte] “I shot a video on my DSLR camera and converted the files to f4v so that I can edit them in Premiere.”
Not sure why you felt it necessary to convert the original files in order to edit them. What version of Premiere are you using? What did you use to transcode the files?
[Rodney Leconte] “Since f4v formats are mostly for web based videos should I not use this to export to DVD?”
DVDs use their own format (.m2v and .ac3) so regardless of what format you use in your timeline the file will have to be transcoded – and don’t forget that DVD is Standard Definition so don’t expect pictures to ever be as good as your original High Def. footage.
[Rodney Leconte] “The timeline is finished but all the files are in f4v format. If I transer the original footage to a higher quaility file can I just relink all the f4v files on the timeline to the new files without losing everything?”
Someone with more knowledge of Premiere Pro than I have should answer this. I have a feeling no, especially if you might have renamed the original clips. Not sure if this is something Prelude might have as features.
HTH
Gary
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Providing more information about your source material and editing codec will help to get you sorted out on this. I’m not at all familiar with Elgato products – do you have other video compression tools?
Gary
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Unfortunately you’ll have to be a mild-mannered shoe salesman somewhere else… I’ve already got that job.
Gary
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[David Lord] “I just finished a project, and I want to back everything up and store it on an external hard drive, then take the originals off my main hard drive so I can have room to start a new project. “
Just wondering… is your main hard drive your internal drive that also has your operating system? If so, you shouldn’t be doing that. Your media files should always be on a fast external drive otherwise you’re opening yourself up to poor performance issues.
Cheers,
Gary