Kylee Pena
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Do you have Perian installed?
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That’s funny, I had the same kind of footage to work with in FCP (XDCAM 35mbps) and it did the exact same thing in there when I was checking out the footage. I transcoded to ProRes and it obviously went away.
Of course, that probably doesn’t really help you much. I’ve just not seen anyone post about the footage doing the exact same weird green blocky stuff (and nobody replied to my original post about it).
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T__T
I didn’t even think of that. Well that’s no good.
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Also, it doesn’t say it on their list of guidelines but when you look more closely at their FCP tutorial, there are some networks that require 12 mbps to air.
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At this point I think they just have an autoresponder on the email. Anytime someone mentions FCP, it randomly sends back an exciting Jobs-ism. Buckle up! It’ll be amazing! Never seen this before!
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Just a random suggestion..
Change the sequence codec to ProRes 422, re-render the whole thing in full, and then try to export?
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You can try to EQ it to get rid of the echo a little bit and make it less apparent, but honestly echo is pretty impossible to kill. The only real solution is re-recording.
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I started editing my first stuff when I was your age. It’s awesome how it’s even easier now for editors to get started – less technical hurdles, more time to focus on the fun part. Plus, you can post 720p video or higher online in minutes…I just looked at a video I posted online when I was about 14 and the data rate was like 50 BITS. Yea, bits. Everyone still had dial up. Crazy. Oh, and this was only 10 years ago, I’m 24.
Anyway, good job, it was enjoyable and engaging. Everything I would say has pretty much already been said. Just keep experimenting with different styles and genres and continue to mimic films you like so you can discover things about it you wouldn’t have otherwise. Begin to pay more attention to the aesthetics of film, the “rookie mistakes” like crossing the 180 line. Don’t get caught up in what’s trendy in film or editing right now too much – don’t keep making shakycam videos with superfast cuts. Explore while you still can, and remember that your gear doesn’t matter at this point. At 14, my gear was a sony handycam analog camera that shot in hi8, a digital converter, and a pirated copy of adobe premiere. You learn with whatever you have and if you determine this is your career, you’ll be surprised at how much of the stuff they teach you in college is stuff you’ve already known for years from playing with your camera.
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Is your sequence fully rendered? I mean, FULLY rendered. Go to Sequence > Render ALL and Sequence > Render selection menus and make sure that all the options are checked, including ‘full’. Then render one more time and try the reference movie again. Also, you said your editing codec was DV, but go check that. If it’s something that uses temporal compression like mpeg, a reference movie won’t work because of the way those files operate.
Basically, do what I suggest above with rendering the whole thing completely and fully, check your codec, and then try the reference movie again.
(The reason for this is that you probably have RT effects in your timeline that you can view perfectly fine even though they are technically unrendered. Once the movie leaves FCP, it doesn’t that that nice luxury of RT playback, so the effects must be baked into the export, whether it’s a reference or not. So FCP sees you want a reference, but still puts together these effects for you, and the file sizes end up the same.)
EDIT: Also, what you suggest is the same idea but adds another generation of compression, which is something you definitely want to avoid.
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OK, I’m going to try to give you some guidelines here. I hope that some of this works for you, it’s difficult to tell exactly what’s going on.
First, you shouldn’t change any of the settings when you export a Quicktime reference movie. You should leave it at whatever pops up and make sure “Make self-contained” is NOT checked. It should be “Current Settings”, Include Audio and Video, Markers None (unless you have chapter markers…). The great thing about this is that you shouldn’t be spending hardly any time at all creating this file, since it’s just basically a roadmap to your footage, not footage itself. (As a sidenote, make sure you don’t use this as your archive or backup copy, because if you move anything around, all the connections will break!) Don’t worry about this reference movie’s frame size or anything, you’ll bring it down to standard def in Compressor. The file you get out of FCP should be 1920×1080.
Second, did you mean that you’re exporting as DV PAL, or when you do the Quicktime reference, is it automatically set to DV PAL? The reference movie grabs whatever editing codec you chose. You can find this under the sequence settings. For your HD footage, it shouldn’t be DV PAL. It should be ProRes. In your sequence settings, if it’s set to DV PAL, just change it to ProRes 422. If it’s something else, probably just leave it alone. If you do change it to ProRes, the sequence will probably need to re-render.
OK, once you have your reference movie, which shouldn’t be a very big file at all, and should look pretty good since it’s still HD, open up Compressor and drag that reference movie in. Then find the 120 min best quality preset and drag it on your footage. Make sure it’s going to the correct frame size for your PAL stuff (you can change settings within Compressor very easily, after you drag the preset on your footage, click on it and the Inspector will change. Then you can go into the frame controls and stuff and make it the correct size. I can’t remember if there are different categories of presets for NTSC or PAL, or if you just need to change it to PAL within the settings, but you can do it all here. This is the step that will take a while.
The files you get out of Compressor will be a standard definition m2v file, and a ac3 file for audio. You will use these in DVD Studio Pro to author your DVD.
I hope this helps a bit!