Mark Maness
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[santellavision] “What’s the difference between exporting directly out of FCP6 to Compressor vs. exporting as a QT reference file then opening that in Compressor?”
Time. When you export directly from the timeline, you can’t do anything else in FCP until its done. When you export to QT Reference file, you can still work in FCP while its compressing in the background. When to do what is a preference of time and when you need to do this.
[santellavision] “Do you get all the compression markers with the direct to Compressor export, as you do when you select “Compression Markers” under the Markers tab?”
As for the makers, any marker in the timeline needs to be set as to what type of mark you want. If you have made a bunch of compression markers, then they will follow in Compressor. If you send out to Quiucktime Reference file, you need to specify in the QT settings before saving your file.
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[cable guy] “To answer your question about HD, I do have one of the decks, but the main issue is that the client needs to get 500 DVDs pumped out by Thursday. They are having someone else crank out a quick edit and DVDs (user guide). Apparently they can only ingest Beta or MiniDV. I am tackling the demo, show floor version. To accomodate timeline and other guy, they are recording in DV on the Z1. Normally I would get HDV and go from there. Where is the logic police?”
Oh…. that makes sense… I still would have shot it HDV but that’s just me. I have friend who recently shot a project with the V1U and shot half of it DV and the other half HDV. Now that was a screwed up project.
Personally, from my point of view, shooting HDV and then donwconverting is so much high quality than just regular DV.
[cable guy] “Since you opened the can? Capture Native HDV, into HDV timeline, then ? self contained QT again (1440×1080?), compressor to get it down for SD widescreen?”
Yep! It keeps the highest quality possible for your DVD. And it also allows for the client to come back later and say, “I need an HD version of this. Can you do it?” It always happens somewhere sometime.
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Thanks… I’ve already done this and it stills follows me.
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Sounds pretty sound…
I do have a few questions.
First, why wasn’t it shot in HD? I know you didn’t shoot it and I’m pretty sure that you don’t have an HD-DVD player but its always best to shoot in the best quality possible. BUT, if you have an HVR-M10U or equivalent (preferably a secondary machine and/or camera), dump your program to it so that you could air your program in HD. But that is moot for this project. Keep this mind for the next project like this.
Second, just use Quicktime to export your file using your project settings. You don’t need to use Quicktime conversion.
Next, Compressor has settings for 16:9 SD DVD encodes. Use Compressor for your encoding. And DVDSP for your final composite to DVD. You don’t need to use After Effects for any of this.
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That will do it!
Filters can be corrupted and can cause problems. Sorry, I didn’t notice the filtered effect. Do you have one of the new Mac Pro system running FCS2? I do know that Magic Bullet will have trouble with FCS2 for the moment.
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Have you checked to see if FCP is cropping this video? This is an interesting issue.
You may have to redo the effect. Have you upgraded to FCP6 in the middle of your project? I know that will cause wierd things like this.
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Kinda looks like you cropped your frame by that amount. Doesn’t looked squished at all.
Go back into Motion with your original project file and check to see if you didn’t crop anything by accident.
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You just found the issue of the century!
It all depends on your output. If most all of your footage is HD, then you’ll have to convert the DV footage to match your HD. And when I say convert, there are many ways to do this. One way is to use Compressor, another is to use Media Manager, or you could scale up your video (this is the least quality).
If I were in your shoes, I would use my capture board (AJA Kona 3) to upconvert all of the DV footage to an HD codec, probably DVCProHD (maybe Apple ProRes422). Then I would edit in HD. That way if I need an HD delivery, I have it and I can easily downconvert to SD for delivery on tape or internet using Compressor.
They key to remember is to ALWAYS work in the best format you can to deliver the best quality possible.
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First, let me applogize if I sounded harsh.
I’m a twenty year veteran in the industry and work is getting much tougher and much more competitive. It amazes me how many projects that I have worked on that someone started who didn’t know what they were doing because they bought the hardware and the software and thought they were an editor/producer.
For people just starting in the business, I would recommend just reading forums, using basic forums for introductory questions, reading books like those that Apple uses for the Pro Training Series (https://www.apple.com/software/pro/training/self_paced.html), and most of all (if you can afford it), going to NAB and attending the Post Production conference. All sorts of information is at our fingertips!
As for formats, a good rule of thumb to remember is if you can see it on the web, its not an edit format. Internet video is not a broadcast quality medium. These are just delivery formats.
As for what book is best, I like the Apple Pro training series of books myself. But there are tons of books that will help on this subject. Most are going to be extremely technical, but the Apple books are going to talk about what is best for your situation.
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Before I’d go that far… I just create a new sequence, copy and paste your old sequence into it.
If that doesn’t work, copy all of your stuff from your old project to a new one.
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Wayne Carey
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