Kyler Boudreau
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BTW – I just realized something. I was exporting the QT to my system drive. That was the bottle neck. Exporting the same QT to one of the other internal SATA drives took way less time.
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kyler boudreau
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Something like this:
https://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&oc=ST2410&~ck=bnsubcat&~bk=gr:SubCategoryRec_1,g:NextStep,rk:It has HDMI and Digital in so I also use it on the field for “video village”. These are Hollywood productions though. I don’t have a DP on set with light meters….so 100% accurate color isn’t a big deal to me. I’m not saying these are off, but I’m sure they are at this price.
Workflow for tapeless depends on the production/camera, etc. So I’m not sure what you’re after exactly…last project was Sony EX3 which was just normal FCP log and transfer stuff. Just remember where your capture scratch locations are! I’m an Avid editor and Avid is so much better and forcing good media management. Final Cut’s approach is such a pain.
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Thanks guys.
Rafael: so what frame control settings would you recommend. Cause yeah, I’d rather not wait eight hours once this edit is done only to realize it didn’t work. Gotta deliver the complete and final on Monday.
Thanks man!
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Sorry lady and gent – I just checked my settings and realized something:
1) Your crunched down version much be H.264 for QT Pro to allow pass through on the MP4 export. If you have another codec (even if it is an Apple codec like pro res) QT Pro will not allow pass through to be an option.
So you just helped me learn something. =) Try that and see if you get anywhere. My workflow all the time is Pro Res/Pro Res HQ to H.264 via Compressor to MP4 via QT Pro 7.
Again, this MP4 wrapper just helps you with playback options. Try it out. Compare embedding QT and MP4 whether stand alone of with Flow Player. MP4 streams, plays in every OS easier, etc.
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kyler boudreau
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I’ve run into this and it is a pain.
Shane is right on the problem of course.
What you can do it send it into Compressor and have it just resize – not compress it. Resize, crop whatever you have to do to get it broadcast compliant. Then bring that back into Final Cut and you should be golden. Test this first, but I think that is what I had to do on a project I was working with.
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kyler boudreau
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1) You have to have Quicktime Pro 7 (not that mind numbing X player Apple laid upon us with Snow Leopard). If you have Pro you can do it – promise. I do it all the time for clients.
2) You are right on file size – the MP4 is not encoding or crunching. It is just wrapping to give better browser ease, etc. Crunch it down in Sorenson or Compressor first, then wrap that file.
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kyler boudreau
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If you keep your data rate at 600-700kbps or below for the video and the audio at say 80kbps then you will be completely fine. I’ve even got a video right now at over 1000kbps that plays fine with the workflow below:
Here’s the trick – crunch it down as a quicktime and then open it in Quicktime Pro and export it as an MP4 but ONLY wrap it. Don’t re-encode. Select pass through for audio and video. Load it up in JW Player or Flow Player and tell it to auto buffer.
Why MP4? It streams better (psuedo html streaming) and will play in any browser for any OS.
Try it….you may never go back to anything else. =) A friend showed me this last year and I love the work flow.
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kyler boudreau
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I can give you feedback on what I’ve seen on my Mac Pro:
Specs: 2009 Mac Pro, FCP7, Snow Leopard. Single 2.66GHz Quad-Core, 8GB RAM, nVidia card, MATROX Compress HD card, Black Magic Intensity Pro and four internal SATA drives
What I cut: HDV, 1080P HD from Sony EX3 and 1080i Pro Res ingested via the Black Magic HDMI card.
How it responds: Not too bad actually. The two main things I’d change about this system would be getting a RAID controller (or at least striping the drives as one) and getting the additional quad-core processor. I see the disk I/O bottle neck sometimes when editing with the lovely rainbow wheel when I’m just moving around in the timeline. It will play a timeline with two HD tracks, but anything more and it starts choking fast.
I’d love to have more cores cranking away when I need an HD to SD DVD encode done. QMaster on this system now takes hours to do only 10 minutes of HD ProRes HD video down to the best frame control SD encode. That sucks.
Don’t have any good advice for the monitor. I use Dell HD monitors. I can get three or four of them for the price of one MAC monitor and since I use them for traveling to jobs, I’m not trashing a $900 shiny silver monitor from Apple.
Having the Black Magic HDMI in is nice for any time you can’t ingest over firewire or the workflow isn’t tape based.
Hope that helps!
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kyler boudreau
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It is taking about 45 minutes….I’ve got several video tracks and a lot of audio so maybe that is why. In Avid I would just mix stuff down, but I don’t know how to do that in FCP. Kind of a newbie. Well, at least compared to time spent in Avid MC in the past.
Seems to export fine though…so, whatever.
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kyler boudreau
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So we shouldn’t even be doing 1080P?
Is 60 frames the same as 30P on the camera? I’m not a camera operator.
THANKS.
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kyler boudreau
http://www.theatereleven.com
ph.310.425.2231