Joe Langenfeld
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Sounds like a common problem, some files will NEVER work in 10-bit. What I do is make an 8-bit sequence for the offending areas, and export it as a Quicktime. Then I import the quicktime into a 10-bit sequence. You may not want to use 8 bit, but face it, sometimes 10 bit does not work!
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Triple check my settings? What does that mean?
If you have been following this thread, you would see that it’s not my settings but the complexity of the sequence that’s exported which causes extreme Compressor render times. For some reason, it seems like the G5 QT MPG2 export does not care what you export, perhaps it sees a rendered sequence as a single QT. Compressor appears to look back into all the layers and filters, thus the extreme delay. (that’s a theory trying to explain why this is so FU)
Macbook Pro, comparing Compressor to Compressor in the G5, is faster. But we are not comparing Compressor to Compressor in this thread, we are lamenting the loss of a fast software encoding solution that encodes faster on older Macs than Compressor does on the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is not fast enough (yet) to surpass this administrative(?) blunder.
It’s unfortunate you have nothing more to offer than to imply that I don’t know how to operate the system. But it’s a free country, and everyone is entitled to their opinion, so thanks for the reply none the less.
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Thanks for the hints, but my memory is configured in 4 equal parts by Apple, so that’s not the issue. I think that the issue is related to the complex sequences that I am trying to output directly from FCP. When it’s a single layer sequence without filters, the results are speedy.
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Walter, I do not have a 3rd party Mpeg 2 export. it’s the original QT export. It did not go away on my system with the 5.1 Upgrade. I noticed awhile ago in a FCP upgrade (back in the 4’s?) that it did go away, and I was able to get it back by installing DVDSP 2.0. I called Apple immediately when it disappeared and was able to get it back. I make a lot of rough cut DVD’s, so the quicker, lower quality encode is just fine for most of them. If you know of a 3rd party MPEG2 export, please let me know.
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OK, the single layer unfiltered clip takes only about 12 minutes, consistant with other peoples’ experiences. So to avoid the 60 minute encode on the effects laden sequence (and yes, it was fully rendered), the next best thing to using the G5 again, is to output a QT and use that as the source for Compressor.
So you would have to add the 5 minutes or so it takes to output the sequence to the 12 minutes that compressor takes to encode for a 17 minute total, still slow compared to the 4-5 minutes in the G5 with MPEG2 export. And the G5 is doing this with the media disks mounted via gigabyte ethernet.
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Well, obviously the MPEG export still works with 10.4.8 and FCP 5.1.3 on a G5 because that is what I am using. You may have to re-install DVDSP 2.0 to get this function back.
I’m not sure what I am doing wrong, if anything, with compressor to get these long times…I am using DVD Best Quality 90 minutes 4×3 in compressor on the Mac Pro, and on the G5 side I changed the MPEG2 settings to 2 pass and best, which gives nearly indistinguishable quality compared to compressor. I get similar long compressor times on my Macbook Pro dual 2G…
These are filter laden sequences with many layers…I will try to output a single, unfiltered clip to see if that makes a difference.
You should see the times with HDV!
Still, it looks like there may be a market for a 3rd party “MP2 fast export” filter. (And a A57/ADO style DVE? Yes, I am showing my age!)
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10 bit?
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Yes, I changed it to 1280…too bad the preset does not work…thank you!
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Thanks, that’s what I expected. Is the quality of the electronic slo mo worth the extra effort of redigitizing, as compared to using slomo in AE7 or a plugin like Twixor?
Joe
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I tried checking the “Open using Rossetta” in the Get Ino folder of FCP 5.1.1. I think it launched OK, (because it was slow!) but the plug-ins & filters that I was hoping to use (installed in the plug-in folder) still were not available.
The ones I tried were DFT 55mm, DFT Composite Suite, DFT Zmatte, a demo of Magic Bullet, and a Sapphire demo. (I have a beta trial of Sapphire for Universal that loads). Maybe I will try to re-install them.Back before Universal, (5.0) these plug-ins loaded and worked fine.