[Jeff Greenberg]

The ‘why’ might make more sense like this.

Your timeline – you can mix and match anything. It’ll playback. We don’t render in Premiere Pro, we “preview.” only if we need to.

Now, those previews, that’s what you’ve been calling rendering. You have the options to pick a codec for a sequence for Premiere Pro to ‘preview’ to – and it’s often an I-Frame MPEG 2 file, easy to edit, playback and render.

But what about output? If you’re exporting the media, then Premiere Pro will skip the previews (unless you explicitly tell it otherwise) and then use Adobe Media Encoder to ‘compress’ and render in one step to your final output codec (preventing two compressions – one a render, the second the output codec.)

And yes, this takes longer than having the preview files already built – if you have them built, you have the option to use them.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

But, in the FCP workflow (and since you were on an Apple board, that’s what I’m assuming), If you use the send to compressor (instead of export QuickTime or QuickTime ref) you will get a better quality – because the synthetic elements (such as generators) were never compressed into the timeline codec.

Compressor will natively handle them and pass that data to be compressed in the final output, meaning only one compression hit, not two.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Susan Smith] “using quicktime regular settings makes a file that stutters”

Can you explain what you mean by this? QuickTime is a container (or bucket if you like.) What format of video is in that bucket? Is it XDCam? Is it Animation? Some formats weren’t meant for playback. h.264, the best delivery codec in many cases, in an MPEG4 container could produce very good results.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

The ability for youtube, BBC, Vimeo to work is a very simple math.

The incoming connection for the user has to be ‘bigger’ as a pipe than the data rate for the video.

If you have a 10mb connection, you should be able to watch 8mb video (the general data rate of some HD online) with almost no wait.

So yes, you can do this using FCP & compressor. Now, if you’re hosting it yourself, you’re dealing with other issues, such as the incoming speed to your offsite host; things you may not be able to control.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

For the font In the edit menu, feel free to change the font for any window.

The import settings? They’re setup to make sure you preserve the full quality of your media throughout your workflow; the tradeoff, is that it’s not as intuitive as we might like.

Trimming, media management, the editorial tools, are part of what makes it such a great editor. If you’re dragging and dropping (and I’m not saying you are), those just aren’t the best ways to edit. I’m not even talking about script sync or phrase find.

Avid’s biggest weakness is that it should be more user friendly; but that would break ways that very fast, very experienced editors want the tool to work. Yes, I’d like it to be more intuitive, but if you can get past the font stuff, there’s great depth there.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

How is it going to be played back? What format? A Macintosh? QuickTime? h.264?

How was the transfer done? 23.98 or 30i?

You want to do the least amount of damage of what comes out of FCP….and it’s still (unfortunately) going to look like an SD video blown up.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I think I got compressor to do this exactly the way you wanted – I did it with 4.0, but it should work with 3.5.

Create a QuickTime SD setting as your ‘first step’ from your original. I’d suggest animation codec or ProRes, to create minimal damage. This is the down convert step you’re doing right now.

Then select the entry and choose Job>New Job with target output.

This should create a chain icon (called linking.)

Step 1 does the down convert. Step 2 does whatever you want with the down converted file, which should retain the chapter markers.

It did in the test I did.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I think you want to open up the ‘advanced’ keyframe area. Once you do this, you can specify general keyframe interpolation like spline, bezier and go as far as to adjust individual bezier handles.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

You can go a step further and link these to workspaces or Toolsets – meaning you change the workspace or toolset and it’ll automatically change the keyboard too.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

For MC 6? Now that it’s 64 bit? I’d say lots of ram and more cores – but the example you gave was apples and oranges (HPs.) Pick more cores from the most modern Chip.

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