[Patrick Collins]

Well, I ended up seeing that I could just export PSD, which I thought would be ok…

One thing I noticed which is super weird, after manually adjusting a few frames in photoshop and resaving the psds, when I brought them back into FCP, there is a definite change in the color profile. The modified PSDs are slightly darker than the original footage, so I had to use color correction to try to make them match as close as possible… Is there a reason for this change in color?

[Patrick Collins]

I think your ctrl-B suggestions saved the day– I finally was able to get a file out of compressor that plays through to the end… I can finally put this project behind me!

Thanks Nick & Shane for all your help along the way during these trying times!!!

[Patrick Collins]

So… I tried “send to compressor”.. I get the exact same thing.. Everything is fine in the beginning and then the video just drops out. If I skip ahead I see:

https://collinatorstudios.com/www/picasso.png

WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?!??!!?

O M G…

I can’t stand this anymore.

So I have the uncompressed version that is PERFECT… and plays totally fine.. and no matter what I do, I cannot get a h.264 version of this for uploading to youtube…. WHAT THE HELL!!??!?!?!?!?!?!

[Patrick Collins]

Wow.. just wow.. The quicktime compressed version does the exact same thing.. It’s almost like some invisible force does not want this video project to get completed. It’s been nothing but painful every step of the way…. WOW!!!

I guess. I am going to try from FCP doing “send to compressor” and see if that works..

[Patrick Collins]

Oh yeah you’re right… Sorry– I rarely use this machine so I forgot what it was, but it is indeed the intel xeon. I think I probably never put Lion on it then because of all the horrible things people were saying about Lion at the time.

[Patrick Collins]

I should also mention that my previous 720×480 version worked fine going through compressor with those same h264 options…

[Patrick Collins]

10.6.8. this is on a 2008 power mac that doesn’t have an intel processor, so I am stuck with that OS.

[Patrick Collins]

Wow.. Ok, so it looks like I got everything perfect.. And now compressor is completely failing me.

In FCP did export sequence, with current settings, and output that to a .mov file…

Then I brought that into compressor, and set it to do h264, 8000kpbs, 30fps, aac 44khz 192kbps, set it to use 100% of source, it shows 1280×720…

I let that compress.. 4-5 hours later, it’s done… I open the file in quicktime.. everything looks beautiful.. I skip ahead in the timeline.. it stops updating the video… I play from the middle of the video.. the video frame is stuck, and only audio plays.. It appears that it only encoded the first 10 minutes or so of the video…

Then I checked the original exported from FCP uncompressed video, it plays totally fine. I can scrub around no problem… No video problems.. playback is flawless up until the end.

So I restarted my computer, and tried again… Dragged the original to compressor, got the settings h264, 8000kbps, etc.. 4-5 hours later, got the exact same results… This time I just let the movie play, after about 10 minutes, the image gets crazy pixelated with compression artifacts everywhere, and eventually the picture just freezes.. audio continues to play throughout the rest of the movie.

What the hell?????

I just started doing compression from quicktime 7, so that’s going now, and I am hoping that will work. But.. why is compressor doing this? I’ve never seen this sort of thing happen before.

[Patrick Collins]

Ok, I just went and took a 2nd look to try to understand what is going on.. I think I just got confused is all… Camera 1’s footage is 1280×720, camera 2’s is 1920×1080… So when I told compressor to make a 30fps version of camera 1 footage, it was automatically at 1280×720, and that’s why FCP made the sequence that aspect ratio…

So, I just setup a batch job in compressor to turn all camera 2’s clips to 1280×720 so they will match with camera 1… Once that’s done then I will be working with a 1280×720 sequence…

I have decided to not give up.

[Patrick Collins]

> why are you now putting your 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 sequence???

No idea.. Because I dragged my 1920×1080 clip into a new sequence and FCP said “hey this doesn’t match, do you want me to make it match?” and I said yes.. and when I looked at the sequence settings it is at 1280×720……..

UGH!!!!

I think it might be better for me to just give up.