Jeremy Collins
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Oh oops,
I have FCP 6, I didn’t realize my typo up top, sorry for the confusion!So since there is no legacy versions of FCS Maintenance Pack available for 10.4, I guess I’ll have to start delete render files. Any other suggestions are welcome!
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Hi John,
thanks for the suggestion. However, for the FCP maintenance pack you need OSX 10.5 and I’m on 10.4.11. Do you happen to know if there is a place to download a previous version? Thanks! -
I tried rendering out a small amount of video using all the same settings and it exported fine. I also tried trashing preferences and resetting permissions, then re-render the film out. It crashed once again. It always seems to occur around 60% through the render, but has never had this problem with the other bitrates. Could this have something to do with the 2000kbps I have set, since that is the only thing that has changed. I’m running out of ideas, any help appreciated!
-Jeremy
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Hi David and John,
Thank you for the replies, I greatly appreciate it and that bitrate calculator is helpful, thanks!The film is a feature-length, independent film. The plan is to send to distributors as well as submit to film festivals, so essentially, I need to get the film in two formats. 1. DVD, for screenings, physical copies sent to distributors, etc. This has been a problem for me as well because if I compress onto a DVD-5 and burn it, I lose so much quality, and to try to get the film out there, I really need top quality. I’ve looked at getting the film replicated on DVD-10’s, but I really don’t need the 1000’s or so that places have as a minimum. Also, I still have to figure out how to compress it down to a size to fit on a DVD-10 and that will present a problem in itself for me, who isn’t that knowledgeable with compression (I am the film’s director that happened to become the editor as well).
The second format that I need to accomplish is the under 2 GB file that I previously mentioned. This is for Withoutabox.com, which is the standard that most film festivals use now, so that you may submit your film directly. I’m not sure if either of you are familiar with it, but you just enter all the film details once, upload your film (with those specs) and can send to festivals from there. I guess most festivals are trying to get away from paper press-kits and physical DVDs for submission.
I am pretty much in compression hell, and as much as I’d love to pay someone who is experienced, there is no money, so it has become my job. I am desperately trying to get these two formats completed because then I can focus on marketing and promotion! Ahh!!!
Thank you for any insight, I’m hoping you guys can be my saviors! Thanks again and have a great day!
-Jeremy
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for the reply. I have never used the ProRes codec. Will that create both a top quality image sequence from Quicktime as well as top quality video from the rest of the film or is there some quality lost? Thank you in advance and have a great day! -
Thanks for the response. Yeah, that is my worry. Cutting it down to size. Time isn’t an issue, quality is. It is a film that I plan on submitting to film festivals and such, so I need to get it on DVD at the ultimate best quality. I can’t find a process (whether it be by testing setting myself or reading online) that will deliver great quality. It all comes from cutting down the file to be DVD size. Thanks for any insight!
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the response. So you avoid Compressor all together? Also, exporting from FCP using those two techniques gave you a file size that was small enough to fit on a DVD?Also, I am not positive, but I thought QT files weren’t compatible with DVDSP? I may be wrong on that. Thanks again!
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Thank you for the response Daniel,
I am using AC3 as audio. It is part of the Compressor DVD preset.
How do professionals get a 3 hour movie onto a single, standard DVD with no quality loss? There must be a way to get it all on there without losing any quality. Thanks again, and all help is appreciated!
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I did use the AC3 DVD audio present when exporting and the combined AC3 and M2V files were too large for a DVD. Before I changed the bitrate, the two files came out around 4.5 GB combined (audio was under 200 MB), but when I brought that into DVDSP, it read as 5 GB and couldn’t fit. That is when I did some digging and read that binary size is different than actual size. So I went back and re-rendered adjusting the bitrate.
How can you buy a movie on DVD that is 3 hours long with picture-perfect quality as well as amazing audio, but I can’t come anywhere close to that with 2 hours. Obviously they have the best of the best equipment, but still! I would love to just have a sure-fire workflow! Haha. Once again, all help is appreciated!
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Hello,
Sorry for the delay, I’ve been caught up with stuff and playing with these problems. Anyways, I trashed all preferences and fixed permissions, but I got the same out of sync problem. The sample rate of my audio is 48kHz.Would this be some sort of an audio setting that is causing this. When I export using Quicktime Compressor, and change the audio setting, the audio will export in sync. Any help is appreciated!