[James Wright]

Right ill change it to CBR as you mentioned,

but ive noticed that the shorter edit i had was set to DV-PAL.

so ive no idea what i need to change.

You asked if it was a blur or a jitter. the best way id describe it is like a sort of second ghost to the moving image resulting in a jittering effect. baring in mind this isnt everything just parts of the screen which is moving at a very fast pace. i.e the bus goes past and it is causing the problem or the interviewees hands moving back and forth.

I can tell it isnt interlacing as its not causing lines , and it isnt present over the whole screen.

[James Wright]

Right i reduced the compressor, as suggested to a lower Mbps

i set it to:
average bit rate 5.5
maximum bit rate 6.8

Yet i am still getting the same problem?

any ideas?

[James Wright]

So what bit rate would you suggest?

Would dropping the average bit rate to 6 and the maximum to 7 be more appropriate?

[James Wright]

Right,

I did as stated, and the footage looks great, took some time though, but im not surprised.

I highlighted the timeline and exported it to compressor, i set it to:

Mpeg 2.
Pal.
16:9
Field Dominance: Bottom First
Mode: One Pass VBR Best
average Bit rate at 8.2 with a maximum to 9.7
GOP structure set to IBBP
and size set to 12

I then added an audio format of ACC 128 KBPS for the audio.

These Exported to my desktop as the following files:

last copy-30 MIN FINAL EDIT!!!!!-tada2.m2v (what i assume is my video, but i cant play as i dont have the Mpeg2 plugin)

and

last copy-30 MIN FINAL EDIT!!!!!-AAC 128Kbps.mp4 (what i assume is my audio which i can listen to through quicktime.)

when i add the two files to my timeline for DVDSP, it looks fantastic and its a good size file, but it hasnt done all of my video, and gives me a the “media Offline” i usually would get from FCP, not for every video file, but a fair few of them, and also my audio despite being the same length, is now out of sync?

What happened? surely if im going straight from FCP and the timeline there is perfect it should output with everything as appropriate?

Help would be soo sooo fantastic, as im new to all this and trying to pick it up as i go along..

Thank you for reading this…

J

[James Wright]

ive somehow got compressor to work again thanks to some online article “https://www.kashum.com/blog/1152611689”.

You mentioned upping the bit rates. for a 28 min long film to go on DVD, how far would you say i can push this realistically to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD disc…

thanks again

[James Wright]

my compressor app is bust,

i get the dodgy message saying “unable to connect to background process” and have tried to fix and ive reinstalled but to no avail.

I do have MPEG Streamclip, is there a way to use that to do what your suggesting?

I was hoping that there might be a compressor setting in the export tab when you actually export from FCP.

Im using FCP 5.0.4 btw, which i forgot to mention.

[James Wright]

i cant use compressor as it wont work i get some dodgy error and despite trying to fix it with solutions people have put online it wont work…

[James Wright]

The project has been found in a VERY VERY strange place in a folder *recovered files* in my bin????

Ive found it but id still really appreciate some know how or how the hell that and a few other files ended up there cos i sure as hell didnt move them into the bin.

cheers

[James Wright]

With all due respect, i hardly have any money to upgrade and its while i appreciate the suggestion its hardly constructive given my problem is it?

[James Wright]

i cant see that menu anywhere…i have final cut. 5.0.4. are you sure that menu is relvant.

when i select:

Import>Panasonic P2>

i get the following picture

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