[Kevin Johnson]

Awesome mr barker- Thanks- Much smoother

Again- thanks for all the help folks

[Kevin Johnson]

Sorry bout that- yea it was edited in HDV… Another editor told me Pro Res was a little better but didn’t really matter- I must have misunderstood

It was shot using a canon HV40 at HDV pf 30 (TV mode)

What would you recommend for the export? I’d prefer smoother images over quality image.

[Kevin Johnson]

Ahhh, sooo the export, import, re-export worked, but the quality is pretty crappy- it is really choppy.

Is this because it exports twice?
or
Because I exported at 1080 30p

I’m pretty new to the plethera of compression and export settings experience. I just want it to look as smooth as possible… Would exporting at a 1280x 720 help?

Again- any and all help would be appreciated.

– kevin

[Kevin Johnson]

Yea they external has over 500 GB left, and my internal drive has about 2 hundred something

I’m trying the divided export- reimport- then export again strategy to see what happens.

Thanks for the responses. Creative Cow kicks ass

[Kevin Johnson]

alright cool cool- the min allowable free space on scratch disk is 2047… is that proper?i have 160 GB free so it shouldnt be a prob- and no limit capture/export

I’m going to try the multiple exports, reimport and again export. In that situation- i should fall into the same problem right?

[Kevin Johnson]

I captured footage onto an external drive- and exporting to my desktop. I have final cut 6.

If I were to export sections as quicktime movies and and reimport them into final cut and export again- would i lose quality?

It’s a wedding video so I’m looking for best quality possible, but something that works.

Also, the final quicktime comes out to around 90 GB which i know is pretty big but figured better to have the most quality as idvd will compress anyway. Could the file size be an issue?

Also, I was under the impression that it was due to dropped frames- because playback in final cut works fine- even with preferences checking for dropped files… but in quicktime it stutters a lot right before the end.

[Kevin Johnson]

Thanks, but na no in or out … on all the tests ive tried, it has been cutting off at different times. its an hour and 16 minutes long and the quicktime movie only has until 55min 44 seconds or 59 min 33 seconds. I took out a four minute section which would of course make it shorter explaining the difference there, but why it’s stopping around that point i dont know- stops at different spot on the clip too.