[Marc D’amour]

Darren,

Thanks for the reply.

So in your experience transcoding stuff that originates in 23.976 to 29.97… does the transfer that direction not introduce any stuttering motion or jitters in the footage?

The interesting thing for the purposes of this project is that the all of the 23.976 footage ingested into FCPX is improperly displaying it’s frame rate. I don’t understand “frame rate flags” but my searches to correct this problem produce those search results often. The other very puzzling thing here is that some of the footage that is jittery in the output string actually originated at 23.976 (after ingesting it displays a crazy 24.15 or something). Although the 29.97 stuff is jittery as well, some 23.976 stuff just doesn’t play smooth.

I used Cinematize in the past but I don’t think they take .mkv files which is typically the format I have the footage in. I’ll have to check this latest release.

Thanks very much for the reply.

[Marc D’amour]

The 3 titles in the link I shared are consistently producing these results. I’m not sure I know what you mean by “isolating it to the title only.” What perplexes me the most is that even when I have a clean uncompressed Pro Res file without any problems, when I compress that very file it produces problems. It’s very frustrating!

[Marc D’amour]

Hey Daniel… was reading your response because I had a similar situation… I am trying to import an .MPG file that was recorded from Eye TV. It is 1920 x 1080 29.97 with 5.1 Audio. I too got the error that the audio wasn’t supported. I have Compressor with my Final Cut Studio suite. Am I able to drop my MPEG 2 file in Compressor… not do anything to the video, but make my audio compliant with Encore? If so, do you know what settings I would have to use? Any help is really appreciated.

Thanks.

[Marc D’amour]

I’m having a similar issue… I have 4 titles that add up to an “Encoded Size” of around 13.1 Gigs. My project settings are MPEG 2 for BluRay at 15.0 Mbps (smallest data rate for Blu Ray) and when I go to build my BluRay it says the estimated size is over 44 Gigs. Some of my source files are mov’s. Would that have something to do with it because it has to be converted? Some of my other timelines have .MPG files. I would think my “encoded size” which is larger btw than the actual size of the files, would be the final rendered size. I am running a build to image test now to see how large the final image is. If Encore will import the footage, does it have to transcode it? Is there a way to tell it to leave the footage alone?

[Marc D’amour]

I use Handbrake and also DVDxDV Pro to take content straight from DVD sources. I used Cinematize at one point but don’t like its lack of in/out point flexibility. Thanks for the .MP4 tip to 422.