[Nathan Lehner]

Cool, I’ll give that a try. I just compressed to a DVD and that worked fine so I’ll try changing the mpeg4 seting in compressor.

nate

[Nathan Lehner]

The audio starts at the right spot then drifts out of sync. . . its get out pretty quick. When I play the mpeg4 on my imac if I pause and restart in the middle, it will again start in sync but then right away it is out of sync again. In FCP everything looks and plays fine. When I burned a disk and played on a PC it would just pause and skip.

I have know real good reason for why I’m using prores422 other than I’m just experimenting with differnt formats to find the best work flow. I was thinking that maybe if my file size was not so big it might compress to an mpeg 4 better? I really don’t know! When I did the same thing with SD DV on a different project I had no problems.

Thanks for your help,
Nate

[Nathan Lehner]

OK, my sequence settings did not match my footage. Thanks also for the Motion optical flow tip. Now we’re looking much better. . . the revised version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJiWyjH9lo8 Ahhh, thats more like it! Thanks all for your help. . . you’re all awesome!

Nate

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[Nathan Lehner]

Thanks everyone. I guess I need get going in motion to make this more effective. I’m just surprised that HDV looks better than prores 422!? I think I need to get more informed on when to use the prores codecs and when not to.

Nate

[Nathan Lehner]

Thanks all for the responses,

Wow, Firewire 800 is not fast enough for 422 HQ?! I thought I was seriously down-converting my HD footage. It certainly looks better when I log and transfer in native HDV but takes up so much space.

I’ll have to start working in motion and see what that does.

Nate

[Nathan Lehner]

I’m kinda ignorant with my tech glossary. . . I’m on a 4 month old quad core imac, 2.8ghz processor, processor speed 4.8GT/s (is that data rate?), ATI Radeon HD 4850 video card.

Here is a link to my issue if you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_nRWzBCLTY
its obvious anytime I slow the speed. . . most notably at :45 and 1:14

thanks,
nate

[Nathan Lehner]

Just to clarify. I changed the speed to slow motion (20% of the normal speed) in FCP and all of my slow motion clips are the ones that are very jumpy. . . like a half the normal frames are there. I’m shooting at 30fps so I’m not expecting super smooth slowmo but this is a lot worse than when I keep it in HDV. Would a 4444prores be better?

thanks so much.