John-michael Seng-wheeler
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Maybe I’m being really stupid here, but can’t you just render the project to DPX using Adobe Media Encoder?
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You should look at all the specs. Unless there’s one of the 6 odd features that you actually need, save yourself $50 and get Windows 7 Pro instead of Ultimate.
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare
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Another helpful trick you can do at the same time is disable the empty audio channels that the camera recorded but you didn’t use.
It’s even more helpful when you have a camera that records 4 channels… chances are some of them are empty of audio, but still attached to the clip which is annoying when you get to the edit.. So if I only have one mic on channel 1 and 2,3 and 4 are empty, I can disable the empty tracks so when I bring anything into my timeline I only get one audio track, instead of 4.
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What do you see in the Help menu?
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I expect that by now Rowby has figured this out, but to clarify for anyone reading this latter,
“Mono as Stereo” creates a Stereo file with the same audio in the Left and Right Channels.
“Stereo” Creates a Stereo file and allows you to assign the incoming audio streams to left and right channels. If you have a single mono file and select “Stereo” You will be able to select weather the audio is sent to the left channel or right channel, but not both.As as side note, if you have a stereo incoming file, and select “Mono as Stereo” you will get two stereo tracks in your timeline, one with the left incoming channel in both left and right, and the other with the incoming right channel in both left and right.
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As far as I can tell, (I didn’t actually encode videos to test this, just played with the settings,)
the .mp4 encoder will not except frame widths not divisible by 2.On the other hand, Quicktime H.264 appears to allow any frame width.
However, the Quicktime H.264 encoder isn’t very good, (at least in my experience with it.) I used to use it back with CS3, but the same settings in CS5 produced vastly poorer results. (Doubling the data rate was required to produce the same quality picture.) I gave up after that and switched to using MP4s. They may have fixed it since then.
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I’m assuming you’re using the AVID codecs installed into Quicktime correct?
I just checked the AVID DV codec and inside “codec options” you can select progressive or interlaced.
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We need WAY more info before we can help…
How long is the sequence? What’s the frame rate? What export options are you using? What is the video for? ect. Also, what are the specs of your system? Mac or PC?
Any info, even the seemingly totally unrelated, may help.
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[Tim Kolb] “I’d encourage you to try the H264 output profiles as a start instead of the QuickTime settings…you may find you can hit the spec dead-on.
“Somewhere between CS3 and CS5 (I never bought CS4, went straight from 3 to 5) Quicktime H.264 encoding went wonky. Try direct H.264 (.mp4 files) encoding and if the files are still too big then you might have a problem.
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I never said that FCP didn’t have Pro features.
[tony west] “I don’t think so, if that is the case then use the R8 for Imovie ads also.”
huh? I think you’re totally missing my point. I’m not talking about the program at all really, I’m talking about the ad.
For example, not a single one of those audio tools from your screenshot was shown in the ad. Instead, when the VO said “professional audio tools” what do they show? One click hum removal. Useful? Yes. Does iMovie have it? No. Does it show to a pro like me that FCPX has pro audio tools? Not in the slightest. Your screen shot does a far better job.
I’m saying that ad is marketed at consumers more then pros, and the use of the R8 helps sell it as a step up from iMovie.
If they really wanted to make a commercial that was aimed at pros, there’d be interviews with editors, the people who actually shot that footage….. oh wait! That sounds just like the FCP7 video.