Jennifer Hoge
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I have it encoding right now and it looks like it’s working.
The solution had to do with HP (Hewlett Packard) Software. When I installed my HP Printer Software, it comes with a ton of stuff. One of them is a software that is called HP Customer Research Survey. I noticed in Activity Monitor that when DVDStudio PRo launched, it would go unresponsive. I did some research and realized that this really was the problem. It works in the background collecting information and sends it to HP. I uninstalled the Research Survey and once I did, the encoding process started in DVD Studio Pro.
To uninstall, go to Hewlett Packard Folder. Launch the Research Survey Application. When you do, there is a pop-up that gives you the option to opt out and uninstall.
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FCP cannot handle jpegs larger than 4000×4000. If one dimension is larger than 4000, it can result in odd behavior, including what I was experiencing with the border error.
Not to mention an “Out of Memory” Error due to the high dimensions. No need for photos to be that large.
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wait… it seems like the jpegs that this is messing up on has one of the dimensions larger than 2000 and even others as large as 4000. I need to make them smaller. I will re-post if this fixes the border issue.
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If I did that, it would apply the border to the animated background, which is what is full frame. I want the border to be around the individual jpegs that are smaller than full frame, sitting “on top” of the animated background.
I keep taking the border off, rendering the sequence and then re-adding the border, but it still yields the same result. It seems to react differently to different pictures and I wonder if there is something about the original photo files that would cause the filter to behave that way….
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Awesome tutorial! THANKS SO MUCH! It answered all my questions and now I’m animating! 😉
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Thank you Edward. I will try these tips and look at the tutorial!
Thanks again!
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Here is a link to the logo I am working with: https://www.premierimageprod.com/Premier_Image_Productions/logo.html
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At this point, I’m realizing that my “current project settings” were probably wrong from the beginning. I don’t mind sending the sequence through a re-render with the right settings, but I’m very confused on what settings I should use. Most of my project consists of Vintage photographs scanned at high resolution and given to me from various sources (scanned differently from each one). I also have HDV footage of interviews we shot. I want 720X480 anamorphic, so it appears widescreen.
If someone can help me figure out what my sequence settings should be first so I’m not losing quality from step 1!
Then, I would probably just be able to export with “current settings” or send to Compressor for Mpeg-2.Thanks,
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I will try those techniques and report back.
Thanks!
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I am writing a year later to tell you that I fixed the problem.
(I do a yearly video where this comes into play and this year I started having the problem again, but I figured it out, so I thought I’d post here in case anybody read it later and needed a fix)So, let’s say I am bringing in 10 sequences in a final sequence. If I put 3 of them on Video track 1 and the remaining 7 on video track 2-5, I was getting out of sync issues with the videos on TRACK 1 only. If I fixed the first one, then the 2nd and 3rd would become out of sync.
So, I moved the sequences up off of TRACK 1 and then PRESTO, no more nesting problems! WHy? I’m not sure. But, it is a fix. By moving those sequences off of Video Track 1, it was all fixed and I have no more problems. 🙂