Michael Sacci
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To print out to Mini DV (SD) your timeline will need to be DV unless you have a capture card and your deck is attached to that verses firewire.
You maintain better quality throughout the editing process if you go to ProRes, less generational lose, graphics will be sharper and so on. It also will be quicker to encode, render when needed, exported, or anything else you want to do.
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Why not give us real info. What codec are the clips, what settings do you have for your timeline.
[Alan Ferguson] ” I have loads of memory (almost 1TB”
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Retiming 29.97 to 23.98 and getting getting good quality is a really tricky thing. Most software does not do a very good job with this conversion at all. Using a program like Shake or Magic Bullet Frames do a much better job with the frame blending.
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Sequence settings need to match clip settings exactly. The only thing that can be set differently is the compressor (a lot of people set it to ProRes) but then you have to do a lot more rendering.
You should really look at bring in the HDV as ProRes (down side is files are a lot bigger) much easier to handle this type of footage, everything speeds up, renders and exports and holds up better with graphics and color correcting.
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Well I would try it at 7Mbps max and maybe 6Mbps average, if I didn’t like the results I would go up but never over 7.5Mbps max.
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When you dropped your HD clips into a SD timeline FCP will resize them to make them fit and change the pixel aspect ratio. When you paste the clips back into the new HD timeline they will still be resized, the remove attrib. removes this and returns it to normal.
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Instead of double posting why not give useful information, like what settings did you use in Compressor.
DVDs only use m2v.
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For DVD-R you should never go over 7.5 Mbps and I recommend no higher than 7.Mbps and this is with audio encoded as ac3.
As far as the multipass that is something you need to play with, there is no set it to this, compression is as much an art as any other process, you need to try, look and adjust.
[Rahul Gandotra] “Source Footage: 1920 by 808 Tiff Files”
Be careful here. This is a letterbox 16:9. You probably want to put it into a 1920×1080 sequence to get the correct padding on top and bottom before down rezing to SD 16:9. -
Settings just don’t change, somewhere along the line you changed it. Assuming that it set correctly without checking at the start is dangerous.
But if you start a new sequence, just drag a clip from the 7D onto it, it was ask if you want to change the seq to match the clip, click yes. Delete the clip. Go to the old seq, select all, copy, then go to the new HD seq and paste all the edits. Select all the clips on the new seq, right clip> remove attributes> Basic Motion and Distort.
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So you are asking us to magically see what all your settings are?
What camera did you use, what are the clip settings, what are the sequence settings?