Geo Cohn
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That’s funny, I have had just the opposite experience. I can’t get XPressPro 5.6.x for the PC to work with any release of QT prior to QT 7.
For a while, Apple were bundling iTunes with QuickTime, which was especially annoying. Lately they offer a QT-only installer for cranky guys like me.
geo.
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Fast Export means the codec is same as source, so you don’t select a codec, that’s the whole point.
I have Sorenson 4.3, but never use it for MPEG. I looked at the settings, there don’t seem to be many of them, I would prefer a little more control. For example, I didn’t see a way to tell it whether your rgb colors are in the range 0-255 or 16-235.
geo.
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I haven’t had much luck bringing QT Refs into Encore, but I almost always do the MPEG encoding via an external application, so it’s a non-issue.
If you really want Encore to do your encoding, export as “fast export quicktime” instead of quicktime reference. This won’t transcode your data, it will just write it to an external file rather than making a bunch of pointers (references) into your original Avid media. It will export much faster than the Animation codec, and the data will be exactly the same as QT Ref data would have been.
geo.
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Why not just put together some outstanding demo material using the HVX?
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The advantage of a QuickTime Reference is that the exporting process is very fast and the file itself does not take up much space because it just points to already existing media.
I am not all that wild about the MPEG encoder that Encore uses natively, so I normally use TMPGEnc to create a .m2v file, and import that into Encore.
George
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Transcoding to anything sounds like a bad idea to me, especially HDV.
Hard drives are weighing in at under 50 cents per gig these days. You could build an archiving strategy around removable hard drives.
George
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I also saw this happen in Encore 2.0. I was using dissolves. The project had an 18 slide show, which I ran 6 seconds per slide with a 1 second dissolve between slides. My solution was to go back to straight cuts because I had a deadline and the dissolves were not a strict requirement.
Would love to hear the real answer though.
George
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I’m not too familiar with the PAL world, but with NTSC I have found that it is important to specify “Native Dimensions” for the Display Aspect Ratio in the QT Ref setup, not square pixel. This should give you frames of 720×576. Then make sure you set up ProCoder to expect the same thing. I bet this is what’s giving you the “wobbly” look.
NTSC field order for DV is lower field first. Isn’t PAL field order upper field first for DV? If you get the field order wrong you will get those horizontal “tears” you were talking about.
George
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Alan,
QT Ref is the best way. What are your QT Ref settings? Also, are you doing NTSC or PAL? And what are your Procoder settings?
George
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I use one for capturing from my BetaSP deck (using RS-422 for deck control & timecodes). Works OK.
geo.