[Jeff Greenberg]

This reply is a little backwards – sorry about that.

[Andy Morin] “there’s a little bit of buffering from my website”
This is likely because the data rate is too high either for your web site (it’s connection to the rest of the Internet) or your connection isn’t fast enough to the rest of the Internet.

What setting did you use? Try speedtest.net to measure the speed of your own connection.

[Andy Morin] “What is the ideal format to be putting these files in? H.264 has been working fine so far on Vimeo”
H.264 is an excellent format. Vimeo takes your h.264 and recompresses for playback at ideal sizing/data rates.

[Andy Morin] “what is the lowest recommended KB/sec compression i should go with?
“
At 720p, you might try dropping your frame rate down to 23.98 (which is significantly less frames.) Then pull back the data rate in 500k/s increments until ‘it works’ Probably somewhere around 2-4mb/s

[Andy Morin] ” I do this bc when I first started compression XDCAM footage it would crash when trying to compress directly to H.264. “
You’re going through ProRes which is fine…but does impact quality just a bit. Are you editing at all? Isolating this crash would help a little (but not the crux of your problem)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I found this – FAB Subtitler – windows only. You could use anything that can build a compliant stream and then add CC after.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Well, wait – did you try what I suggested or not? You don’t have to compress the whole thing – you can set in/out points in FCP, Compressor etc, and just test the troubled shot. I’d suggest seeing how it looks in 8 bit uncompressed HD (huge file) before you go any further. Any tests you do? You should do before compression.

Yes, you could try adding noise – essentially it’s ‘dithering’ the image to a degree. This may require a higher bitrate.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

What/where are you going to do with the h.264 export.

You’re struggling because you shot in 12 bit, edited in 10 and are dumbing down to 8 bit…and surprise – there are only 256 steps from black to white. Therefore, you end up with banding.

Even upping the data rate probably won’t help, but hell, throw 50megs/s @ the h.264 and see if that improves anything.
Also, take a minute of footage and export from FCP as an uncompressed 8 bit file. If that doesn’t work, nothing will @ 8 bits.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Why aren’t you adding slate/B&T inside of Media composer?

You likely could go in at CBR at the same data rate and have a decent looking file.

Last, Compressor is the only tool that will directly make a DVD; Episode and Squeeze can certainly do decent (and possibly better) compression for MPEG2. It’s not that Compressor sucks, it’s just that their MPEG2 algorithm could be better.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

That’s a bizarre size that that’s whats causing problems. What format is are the QuickTime clips?

What compression software do you have other than handbrake? You’ll need to pad to a standard size.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Alberto,

Don’t use MactheRipper if it’s unencrypted. Use MPEGStreamclip. Just because you can drag it to the finder, doesn’t mean it’s unencrypted.

It looks like you’re ripping it using toast – ah, it’s coming out as DV PAL…

What are your FCP sequence settings? Are you using DV PAL?

Do other DVDs exhibit this?

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I’m sure you know this – but you can’t really color correct on the LCD display, right? You need to use a calibrated external broadcast monitor (like the ones made by FSI)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I haven’t seen this behavior – I’ll double check. Right now I have NOTHING on my internal drive – no projects, nor events.

Nope. Just pulled in a QuickTime and some media from a DSLR – both put media where my event is – on an external media drive. Had it copy media over, create transcoded and proxy media.

There’s no FCPX media in my User’s Movies (although there is thumbnails and audio peaks.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Ben Edwards] “1) Color Correction
2) Grading
3) Audio, Vegas blows almost everything out of the water in this respect, has MC progressed much since DV Xpress?
4) DSLR footage workflow/realtime performance”

1) Color correction – HSL and/or Curves. With Naturalmatch.
Secondaries via 3rd party (BCC)
2) I’m assuming you mean color correction?
3) Vegas is still very powerful. MC still is frustrating along these lines – although track based RTAS are powerful for elements like compression. I’ve been debating getting head deep in Protools or just using Adobe Audition.
4) It works okay (it works okay in almost anything except FCP7) – but lots of it is dependent on your CPU.

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