Kris A. wotipka
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While that was an excellent response, I am going to go out on a limb here and ask if you are deinterlacing your video?
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kris@wotipka.com
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Fueling the fire in hopes that you hit the correct forum next time. However, I can barely see why you would ask it here.
Download and use Cyberduck. It supports SFTP. All you need is the URL, Username and Password. You will be asked to accept an “unknown key”. Just say yes. Navigate to the correct directory and upload away.
Now, for your penance, you must answer the next 5 newbie questions.
kw
kris@wotipka.com
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Ah yes. There are days when I want to stand on top of the CAPS LOCK key and scream RTFM at the top of my lungs as well. Then I have to remember all the help I have gotten from the kindness of strangers when I either didn’t know the right terms or even the right question to ask.
That’s when I have to step back and take a breath. I easily remember the day when I first launched compressor. It looked soooo easy. That’s when the reality set in that Compressor is just a tool, there is a whole skillset behind what it does. A skillset that is about the same thing as voodoo to the unknowing.
This is the problem I think most people have. Presets only go so far and when you have to venture out into the world of custom settings, noting makes ANY sense. I can see this is the CODEC classes I teach. They start out confused and I think most leave the first class even more confused.
So in a forum like this, it would probably exceed the character limit and patience of anyone to try to explain exactly why they are to use a certain setting. There will always be the knowledge moochers. The answers we give them might get them through this project but they will bumble the next one. We can only hope that more people try to understand compression and focus less on the product they are using and current project they are freaking out about.
kris@wotipka.com
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You know what you want to do and you are almost there. You are just going about it in the wrong place. I often drag all of the clips and stack them into the sequence so I can play around with timing and see if there is any drift. However, that is not where they are created. You select the clips you want in the browser and then make the multiclip (right click option). You will need to know where you want them to sync though. That is why I like playing with them in the sequence, you can set “IN” points or “OUT” points back into the browser window and sync them with that. That was probably a bit confusing so read the manual. The one for Studio 2 is very well written. Wish I could say the same for 3.
kw
kris@wotipka.com
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Flip For Mac will do the needed .wmv conversions for you. Depending on the quality you want depends on the quality you need to purchase (the viewer is free, the encoders are not). After that, try playing around with the various presets.
The biggest mistake that people new to compression techniques make is that they try to render out long clips. The requires waiting for them to render out before viewing. In Compressor, you can set the in and out points and render out a short section. Now there are a lot of arguments for rendering out the whole piece because of changes in the motion energy, etc from scene to scene. However give the material you are working with, I would render out a 3-5 minute piece, see if it has the quality you want. If it looks bad, adjust your settings and rerender out the same piece. Put the details in the file name so you know what each is for future reference (ie. 320x240b2000kf30.mov (320×240 resolution, 2k bitrate, key frame 30)). When you get to a point that you like the results, render the entire piece.
Be sure to save your settings because you don’t want to go through this every time.
kris@wotipka.com
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We have just started to use the HF100 cameras. An additional note is that due to the file size limits, it breaks longer footage into multiple files. I believe that there is a plugin from JVC for FCP to allow log and transfer like the P2 workflow. I would suggest looking into this prior to starting your shoot. If you need the details, email me directly and I will get my guys to do a writeup.
kw
kris@wotipka.com
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You didn’t mention if you SD was anamorphic. If it isn’t, then you are going to have some aspect ratio issues. If your SD is 4:3 then convert your AVCHD to whatever the codec is for the SD and do edge cropping. In other words, if your SD is miniDV then convert your AVCHD to whatever DV codec your NLE uses and edge crop. If you have used full frame then you have bigger issues trying to pan and scan this stuff around or coming up with some other method to see what you need to see in the frame.
Once you have the two clips as the same aspect and codec, multiclip should not be an issue.
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“Have you thought of something like this:?
https://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Accessories/Turbo264/pro…”
Let us know how this works. I have been looking at this for a while.
kw
kris@wotipka.com
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One of the biggest problems you will encounter is that the drive (physical drive) itself cannot keep up with the I/O. The interface (eSATA for example) can handle all sorts of throughput but it bottlenecks at the drive. So, the solutions are cages with eSATA or the like interfaces that stripe the data across multiple drives so each drive gets a portion of the (eSATA) pipe.
On this note, I am looking forward to the eSATA version of the Drobo if and when it ever comes out. For the price it is one heck of a archive box. I just got it and haven’t tried to edit off of it so I can’t comment on the speed there. I am just using it to keep backups of client footage, etc. I have a pair of eSATA external drives and a 2 channel eSATA express card for my MBP. When I really want to crank things up, I set one to my scratch drive and put my raw footage on the other. I do know for a fact that I can pull a 3 stream multiclip (NTSC DVCAM) off of one eSATA external drive without any noticeable glitches.
If you need more info, I have some links to various cages with multiple eSATA interfaces or multipliers. Hope this helps.
kris@wotipka.com
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