[Jeff Greenberg]

Get it on the timeline. Promote it to a timewarp.

The Timewarp’s Blended Interpolated (or blended VTR) look 10x better than the 4 motion effect renders.

And if you drop the speed below 30%, I’d really recommend using FluidMotion in the Timewarp render methods.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Not possible unfortunately. You can go from kf to kf in effect mode…via ff/rewind, but that doesn’t work on audio.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

If you have BCC effects on your system, there’s a Cartoon that may help you.
You can also export your video to a QuickTime file…and then open it up in Photoshop. Photoshop actually has a timeline and you can perform photoshop filters on a frame by frame basis to your video.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Sorry – avid is tied to specific versions of the OS.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

The crash report doesn’t really help. What might help would be the console logs.

Meanwhile, what version of OSX? QuickTime is such an integral component, that in your removing stuff you may have screwed that up.

Quick desperate move: grab the latest combo installer for your version of OSX and run that.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

yes, you can create a SD sequence if you want. FCPX will handle 4×3 material (with sidebars, unless you want to scale it up) in an HD sequence.

Yes, you can use h.264 QuickTime footage as commonly found in iPhones

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[Jeff Greenberg]

What format are you exporting it to?
Are you using the Render files?
Have you tried taking out the AE section to compare the export time (just export a part?)

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Some thoughts off the top of my head.

First, can you pump a set of 10 bit colorbars through the process (to see how they get degraded.)

What’s your setup for Premiere Pro sequence type? There’s no DPX preset – are you using your previews there by any chance? (I’m wondering if things are getting rendered 8 bit there.)
I suspect that you may have to turn on maximum preview quality and have a custom 10 bit preview codec (not sure if both…probably more the former) to pass 10 bits to Encore.

Have you tried testing a minute (or so) with MPEG-2 which is also a valid bluray format?
Have you tried just using Media encoder and bringing that material directly to Encore?

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Mia Maffioli] “Vimeo Plus gives a weekly upload of 5Gb.
That means if I upload a 3-4 Gb cut I can only upload 1 a cut a week.
Plus, a 3-4 Gb upload is immensly long, by any standard.”

3-4 GB isn’t that large. You may not like hearing that. I routinely push 10-20 GB.

One alternative, is that you could pay for the upload.

Want a cheap solution? If you’re willing to verify with youtube via a text message, you’re allowed to upload files >15 min for free. Here’s the link.

[Mia Maffioli] ” On those ILLEGAL SITES THAT I WOULD NEVER USE a whole feature film to download illegally (up to 2hrs) is compressed to- what 500 to 800Mb- Ok, not HD- sometimes to a high standard. For a feature length film.”

No comment here beyond, that’s for an SD rip. HD is 4-6x that size (in pixels)…meaning 800×4=3.2 Gigs. They’re also running at 24fps which means a 20% smaller file.

By the way, I’m not just guessing here – Vimeo gives you some baseline suggestions:
https://vimeo.com/help/compression

At 5mb/s (their suggestion for HD, not mine) your 70 min piece comes out to 2.5 gig.

[Mia Maffioli] ” My cut is 70mins- there MUST be a decent compression that would keep it HD and under, say 1GB.”

Why would you think that? At some threshold compression size, your video will look heavily compressed.

You want a 1GB file? I can tell you exactly how to get a 1 gig file. You can compress in h.264 (pick whatever encoder you like – compressor, ffmpeg, squeeze, episode) and set it to about 2mb/s. You’ll get a 1GB file. The quality, on the other hand, will be lacking.

[Jeff Greenberg]

I can’t recall if this is in 5.0 – I think it is, because that’s when stereo tracks were introduced. Modify the clip (clip menu) choose audio tracks, and set as 2 mono tracks.

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Jeff G

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