Miklos Philips
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I’m running Tiger 10.4.2 and QT 7.0.3 and not having Compressor issues, so the question is what are exactly your “issues” with compressor?
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Yes. The tool I use is DVDxDV, $25 and works great:
https://www.dvdxdv.com/DVDxDV.overview.htmcheers
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It seems to work if I export using “Quicktime conversion” and selecting the “Uncompressed 8-bit 48 K” preset under Quicktime options. So, I’m answering my own question I guess: the straight out export using “Export>Quicktime Movie” would result in a mess, but using the method as above it works, the frame rate and 16×9 anamorphic is retained – the only thing I notice is two 3 pixel black lines on left and right side of the frame. I guess that’s the 720×486 frame size (which is the format for uncompressed 8-bit video) vs. the original 720×480 frame size of DVCPRO. It should work fine.
On your other note: thanks for you attempt to help, but no, there are no breaks in my workflow, it was captured correctly. FYI: It was shot with the Panasonic SDX900 using DVCPRO 50 in 16×9 mode and 24P.
cheers
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Both of these features have been requested and on the wishlist from Apple YEARS AGO. I guess they really listen to users…
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Andrew,
Actually your suggestion doesn’t work in FCP5. I do exactly as you said in AFX, in the “make movie” render options as PNG with Alpha “millions +” – I get a series of PNG files, one fo each frame. However, when I try to either import or drag and drop into the FCP browser FCP 5 gives me an error that that file format is not recognized. I tried this with just one individual file and the series, no luck, FCP just won’t take it. I’m now exporting as a QT .mov “Lossless with Alpha” and that works fine including fine soft drop shadows on the type and it looks nice and clean. cheers………………………….
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Please provide version numbers with your post if you want people to help you. Secondly, I find exporting to Compressor straight outta FCP is much more time consuming (actually slower processing). What I normally do is set and IN and OUT point on the timeline on my sequence, export “File>Export quicktime movie” DON’T make it self-contained, export video only (this should be very quick as it simply generates a separate reference file), no audio; also use “current settings” so no video conversion occurs, i.e. if you’re editing NTSC DV it goes to NTSC DV. Then take that file and put that into Compressor with a DVD compress preset to encode into MPEG-2. Also I would export “File>Audio to AIFF” and then use Apack to encode to AAC or use Compressor – and this is where the version numbers come in – if you have Compressor 2.0.1 it does it all: video and audio conversion. Hope this helps.
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so where do I find parking? :-))))
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As far as I know FCP does NOT automatically read and refresh the contents of a folder on your drive in the browser. Yes, you’d have to import (or drag) your files into the browser. However, as opposed to folders, individual files will retain their path/ link to the file on your drive so any changes to the files will be updated.
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Yes and yes. Either way it will work – though the cinema displays would like the DVI dual card better, since they have a direct DVI input.
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Sorry, my bad. Using Firefox with a Flash blocker. Usually a button comes up though when there is Flash content, don’t know why it didn’t show on your page… cheers and thank again (love your HD stock stuff too)
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