George Costakis
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You can actually get around this by modifying the actual preset itself.
Save a new custom preset from the MPEG-1 standard preset, quit compressor, and then navigate to the following: User (ie: your computer user name)> Library > Application Support > Compressor
Find the newly created preset and open it in TextEdit or TextWrangler. Find the section where it lists the 320×240 or whatever and change this to whatever you like, as long as each of those dimensions are divisible by 16. I think you can get away with other numbers, but I’m not guaranteeing it. Also, if you’re making an especially large frame size and you need to increase the bit rate past 2.0, you can also modify that within the text editor of choice by finding the section “ave-data-rate” and “max-data-rate” and changing those to what you need.
Save the file, re-open Compressor, and add the custom preset to your video clip. I’ve noticed that if you mess with any of the settings in the tabs once you’ve modified it through the text editors, that it will reset some of it’s values. So just make sure to set the settings you want ahead of time so that you’re just dragging that custom preset onto the clip and submitting it. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
George Costakis -
Thanks Dave,
This seems to be the same method of dropping a 29.97 sequence into a 59.94 sequence in FCP, where it’s duplicating every other frame. Good to know I can do this directly from AE and keep my RGB color space intact.Just a note for others following this. This option is found in the composition settings dialogue box, under the advanced tab. Also, you need to set this for the comp you want preserved, not the destination comp. I got thrown by that the first time I tried it.
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Hi Kevin,
I’m in a similar boat, but instead of 1080i 59.94, I have to deliver at 720p at 59.94. I’m aware that this is actually 60 frames per second and not fields. The project is all motion graphics and no live footage and I built it in 29.97. When I was finished with the project, I changed the comp settings from 29.97 to 59.94 and rendered, but the motion isn’t seeming to translate the same (the speed (especially easy eases) and blur amounts are different). Should I also change this to 59.94 through the render dialogue? Thanks.
Cheers,
George Costakis -
Yea, I tried that as well. It’s really bizarre. I thought it might be lying to me, so I just tried Export > Quicktime Movie > Current Settings to see what the embedded TC track would be in QT player. It got done, gave me the always welcomed “General Error (34)”, and spit out the quicktime, but without the TC track that it normally includes. It makes me so happy. So. Happy.
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Hi Shane,
No there’s no numbers being skipped at all. They’re just running straight up to 29. What I find also odd, is that earlier in the project, things were working fine, as I have all of my other sequences set right. It seemed to crop up after I sent everything to color and came back and wanted to start my corrected sequence at 00:59:50:00. I had to wrestle with getting that changed as well, even though I’ve done it a million times. It was also doing something weird, where I would enter the new starting timecode number in, and it would default it to 11:00:00:00. Eventually, that one was fixed by trashing the prefs and then setting the user prefs to start at 00:59:50:00. This one however… not so sure. I’m thinking I need to just clean install, but I’m in the middle of finishing this spot and I need to just get it out the door for the time being.
George Costakis -
whoa, grammar got me there. *”looked at was the sequence settings…..”
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Hi Rich,
Sorry, should have included that in the last post as I actually did try this. I’m using 23.98 720p DVCPRO HD footage, as confirmed by the browser (and some of my earlier sequences as well). I did the “change sequence to match clip” and said yes. So then the first thing I looked at were the sequence settings for the new timeline and everything matches. However, when I go into the actual timeline, it’s still showing the frame count going up to 29 and not 23… I also have tried a new project entirely, and it’s still the same issue.
George Costakis -
Sounds good, thanks Dave! (And yes, I’ve had my share of those moments myself).
Cheers,
George Costakis -
Hi Michael,
Not to throw myself into a fire here, but I thought the first post was clear enough on all points. However, I’m also familiar with the Phantom, so that might be why I wasn’t confused. Michael, you might try and use a plugin called Twixtor, and see if you can get the results that you’re looking for. Typically, it’s used to simulate slomo footage that hasn’t actually been shot at a higher frame rate. Sometimes it can do a really nice job. However, I’ve never tried it personally in the opposite direction, but it might be worth a look. They also have some video examples on their website so you can see what it can do. Since no one else has responded, I thought I would just my shot in the dark out there. Here’s their link: https://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/
Again, I’m not entirely sure if this is what you’re looking for, but take a look.
Cheers,
George Costakis -
Yea, that’s a good idea to export to another disk and then relink from there. For a spot, this would probably be fine as a workaround, but this happens to be a longform project and I’m dealing with multiple terabytes of harddrive space, so exporting all of the clips back out isn’t really a practical fix in this particular case. I guess I could export just the ones that are being used in the sequence, but that’s still a decent amount. Thanks for the idea though, I hadn’t thought of that. I think what this is going to come to is, “No, FCP can’t relink Sequence clips to Browser clips”. Unfortunately for me.
Cheers,
-George Costakis