Michael Sacci
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are you view the video on an external monitor or just the viewer or canvas. If so set them to 100% and the jaggies should do away. anything other than 100% is a proxy, If this show your footage is okay you can do back to fit in window with confidence.
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What versions are you using and OS.
There was a problem with leopard’s first release.
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check out rippletraining.com
they have some free online tutorials and for $ ones.
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This is one place I disagree with Noah. I like CBR when you can encode at a high bitrate.
If you use ac3 audio at .192 Mbps you can encode 90 minutes of video at 6.5 Mbps which would encode 2-4x faster and be as good or better. (if you have motion menus or extras you will have to lower the bitrate or do to a dual layer disc. If your video is well shoot (and not DV) you can get very good encodes with CBR down to 5.5 Mbps. For DV footage I like to stay around 6 Mbps.
One other thing to do to get better quality with Compressor is to export the timeline in FCP to Compressor. This ties up FCP and you lose a little of the time you just gained but it does make a difference.
But in the end you should do a test (for VBR it needs to be at least 15 minutes) and see which one looks better to you. Don’t take our word for it, see for yourself.
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[Chris Borjis] “where is that discussed?
I asked about how the quality of the graphics looked from the timeline which is ABSOLUTELY relevant to the question at hand.”
I was speaking to Brian wondering if he should upgrade his graphic CARD in his original post and not a comment about you asking how graphics look. The X1900 will not make a difference in video quality it just helps in render time and playback in some apps. My entire line of thinking is improve technic before spending money to upgrade if he is going to spend money as stated it should be on a production broadcast monitor, even a sony 13″ retail TV is better than going with just a camera.
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There will always be a quality loss, limiting the amount is the main concern. Remember DV is 13 GB per hour and you put as much as 2 hours on a DVD at 4.7 GB,
Things that really kill m2v encodes are a lot of noise and bright reds especially when coming from DV footage.
The first thing to try with the resources you have is to export to compressor from the FCP timeline and try a CBR encode with bitrates above 6 Mbps, make sure you encode the audio as ac3 to give you more space for the video.
Then if still not happy try BitVice then if still not happy there are the 2K plus software encoders or hardware encoders.
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Easy fix.
Both P2 volumes have to be loaded into Log and Transfer at the same time. I don’t use the p2 store but what I have read each p2 card will come up as a separate p2 volume on the desktop. So in Log and Transfer when you mount both volumes of P2a and P2b the clip will be joined together. The same would be true if you transfer the content folder and lastclip of each p2 to a separate folders on a hard drive then did the import, both volumes have to be opened.
Check out Shane Ross’s tutorial on P2 workflow it is a great help.
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The graphic card upgrade is a must for graphic programs. More and more is being off loaded to the gpu, the next biggest thing is the amount of RAM and yes never buy your RAM from Apple, I have bought from Macsales for over 10 years now, they are the only place I purchase RAM from.
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I read this book awhile back and thought it was great. Handles the why as well as the how to light. Once again lighting knowledge is more important than expensive light kits.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966250400/lowellight-20
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Graphic card has nothing to do with this so you don’t need to think of that, for this problem at least.
One thing that has a lot to do with final quality is how well you light your seen. If it is not well light you will fight it the entire way. The only way to judge lighting on the set is to have a production monitor hooked up to your camera.
If you post a link to a sample of your work you maybe able to get more detailed suggestions.
Better production practices go further than better equipment.