[Jake Williams]

Hey Craig,

Sorry for the confusion. I must not have explained myself well enough. I’m not editing H264 footage at all. I captured the footage from the camera using Log and Transfer in Final Cut Pro. The footage was 30 fps and I used Pro Res 422 time line to edit. I first tried to export the footage from Final Cut Pro using h264, but the resulting MOV file looked jerky and had aliasing during the moving footage. The source video was handheld and a little jerky, but not as bad as the exported version from Final Cut Pro. I decided to trash this video and try a different setting.

On my next export from Final Cut Pro, I exported the video as a Apple Intermediate Codec file which gave me a great result with no jerkiness or aliasing. Now that I have this AIC MOV file I am trying to convert it to H264 so I can upload it to Youtube. The trouble is when I try to convert the AIC MOV files to H264 in Compressor, the resulting video looks like the bad H264 files I exported from Final Cut Pro the first time.

I don’t know what jumpy is. It can mean too many things. Describe what you are seeing as if you were talking to a blind surgeon and your life depended on it. Maybe your data rate is too hight for your computer. Maybe you need to deinterlace. Maybe the issue is with the camera work.

The jumpiness looks like there are dropped frames and the computer is trying to compensate by having blurred motion. I tried to deinterlace the footage when I exported with H264 originally from Final Cut Pro, but it did not look correct. The only export from Final Cut Pro that has looked like the source video is the Apple Intermediate Codec export.

I apologize for not explaining my issue properly.

Thanks,

Jake

[Jake Williams]

Thanks Craig,

I believe the footage was shot in 1080i 60 fps, but when I brought the footage into FCP and had FCP auto-correct the sequence to match the video file settings, the footage adjusted to 30fps.

I’ve tried using a h264 web preset for Youtube and the footage is as jumpy as it was when I exported h264 straight out of FCP.

What I am currently doing is this. I’ve exported a small clip out of FCP as a Final Cut Pro Movie File. I’ve then put a H264 Youtube preset on it and am now processing it. The trouble is that it is taking Compressor 4 hours to compress a six second clip.

Let me know what other pertinent info I can give.

Thanks,

Jake