[Michael Sacci]

There is an Audio setting Enable, Disable, pass through. Did you have it set on Disable.

[Michael Sacci]

Bouke,

No math on weekends or holidays (if you are in the US)

“In case of the latter, kick the soundguy.”
No matter what that is always good advice!

[Michael Sacci]

John without knowing all your settings it is hard to say. I have never gotten a Compressor Icon, does it have .m2v as an extension?

In Encoder and the Extras tab, you don’t have Multiplexed checked do you?

[Michael Sacci]

Everything has to match before you can use multicam. Codec, frame resolution, and framerate. Both of your video are HD so this is just a matter of transcoding the files.

You can just convert Camera 1 to match Camera 2 with Compressor, Using a ProRes Interlaced setting with the frame resolution of 1440×1080. Make sure you keep the frame rate at 29.97/

or

This needs to be done to both sets of footage and will speed up future processing since you are working in full raster resolution.
In Compressor transcode both the ProRes 1920×1080 Interlaced @ 29.97 (or 59.94i). I would test short bit of the 1440 footage because their is a little more stuff happening, Compressor has to stretch out the pixel (which is what is happening any time you play it) Turning on Frame Control may help, but only use it if you really need it, adds a lot of time to the process, that is why I saying to do short test.

Then in FCP you match the sequence settings to these ProRes.

You should not be letterboxing anything.

[Michael Sacci]

Recording a video or audio chat
You can record a video or audio chat to view later.

It’s limited but it’s free.

To record a video chat:

Start a video or audio chat with one or more buddies.

Choose Video > Record Chat.

A Recording Request window opens on your buddies’ screens. If they click Allow, recording proceeds.

To stop recording, either click the Stop button or close the chat window.

By default, recorded video and audio chats are stored in the iChats folder in your Documents folder. To choose a different location for saved recordings, in the Messages pane of iChat preferences, select “Save chat transcripts to,” and then select the location.

You can use Spotlight to search for saved recorded chats by title and date.

[Michael Sacci]

That’s why I gave myself an out. 🙂

But if we all charged clients for sending us things that saved them money but cost us a ton of time we would all get what we needed on the right medium. In the end we are the ones that pay for stuff like this.

There is no reason they need to be muxing this into a BluRay video disc, they can just encode it and send it as a file.

[Michael Sacci]

VC-1 is the Microsoft version of a codec that you can use on BluRay, don’t think many people use it. From what I’ve read, at twice the bitrate is it not as good as H264.

[Michael Sacci]

[Rafael Amador] “If an scene “deserves” more data rate, it doesn’t get it. “ But if the CBR bitrate is high, like I’m suggesting it ALWAYS gets it, the problem is when an image pixelations it is because the VBR is not see it as something that needs a higher bitrate. There is no benefit to high bitrate VBR and many times they produce lower quality. You need at least 20-30 minutes for give VBR a chance to average it out. But do test, I will but up anything encoded in compressor as 7 Mpbs CBR against Compressor’s VBR at any bitrate, both in terms of quality and playability.

[Rafael Amador] “rom an Upper first movie you get an Upper first MPEG-2. Standard and playable everywhere..”
My point is to keep the field order as is, a lot of people (and at times Compressor) swop the field order and make it lower. Yours is a better (more correct) explanation.

[Rafael Amador] “Sending to Compressor duplicates the process time in case of a “Double Pass”. “
There is a hugh benefit to this when you are working with HDV sequence, doing it your way minimizes the HDV problem but this is still just you the best quality. But this suggestion goes hand in hand with my recommendation to use CBR, in the end it is quicker to Send to Compressor (or Export to Compressor) and use CBR vs, exporting a ProRes and then use VBR. Once again this is a step that give better results, especially if there is text and graphics. The sequence doesn’t need (nor should it be) rendered before starting the process.

As far as the Frame control, it is not as important as retiming, de-interlacing or up converting but I didn’t say don’t use it, I would test it with or without it. Any recommendation by anyone (especially me) should be done without testing.

[Michael Sacci]

I would take the clips into Compressor to change the frame rate, turn on Frame Control, set to best and then do test other settings by trial and error. You have to have some frame blending to go from the 30 to 25 but Compressor will do a better job that say FCP.

[Michael Sacci]

Sorry, not asking what was requested, but what it is. That is the first thing I check. Then it would be to ask the sound guys how they worked with the files you sent. If you bring back the audio you sent them does it line up?

Also make sure your Easy Set up matches you seq. before you imported the audio, you would think that there is no connections but there is.