Paul Campbell
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Brian, I do have one animation that’s transparent, so in Compressor I used the Animation NTSC with Alpha setting and set my output frames to Progessive. However, this clip still indicates being interlaced in FCP. I figured the Prores codec was responsible for the jumpy animation, but I just couldn’t figure out how to make the animation progressive in Compressor using the Animation codec.
As Daniel mentioned, yes, I did post this a few weeks ago, but my original question about why the clip remains interlaced was never answered, so I’m back once again to nag you guys. Thanks,
Paul
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Yeah, but the thread was broken. My question about why my clip properties were still showing interlaced was never answered. Sorry to double-post, but I never got closure. (Well, the latest replies today may get me there.)
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Thanks, Rafa. I’ll start looking around for Episode.
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Rafa, I’ve got a question about DVD vs. Compressor assets that are used to burn the DVD in DVDSP. I deliver a 60-minute show for broadcast every week, and the format I’ve been delivering is DVD. How much of a difference do you think there is between the Compressor assets (.m2v and .ac3 files) and the actual burned DVD? Would it be cleaner to deliver the two files on a flash drive instead of encoding them onto a playable DVD? Does it matter that much?
Paul
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Even Stevens? Don’t think I know that one, but you must’ve been a crime show buff back in the good ol’ days.
I guess my eye isn’t so badly tuned after all. Thanks, gents.
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Everything I’ve read about that duplicate frame speaks of how unbearable it is to view, since it comes across as a stuttering kind of effect. I’ve watched these videos with my DVD player outside of any FCP work, but I guess I just don’t have a finely enough tuned eye, cuz I don’t think I notice this stuttering.
I guess adding this 5th frame six times a second is the only way to get 24p up to 30p.
Anyway, thanks for the clarification, Shane.
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Hi, Jamie. I finally experimented with this on the other machine, and it worked. I didn’t need to change that machine’s scratch location. I just copied the folder over, launced the project file and boom. No rendering necessary.
Thanks,
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Oh, I know what you’re talking about. I chose Better. (sorry, I thought I was leaving out a really obvious step there)
So anyway, that’s my method, but I still have an interlaced animation. I keep messing around with this, cuz there’s clearly one little thing staring at me that I’m not clicking. Thanks,
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Daniel, yes I am referring to Compressor…and I feel really silly now, because I thought the selection of Progressive in my frame control output WAS my deinterlace method. The codec of the original graphics is animation. I’d like to keep animation as the codec, but I can’t seem to figure out what step I’m omitting. If I choose the Prores422 codec and select Progressive in my frame controls, the finished product is progressive.
I hope I described that adequately. With me it’s always a crapshoot.
Thanks,
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Jerry, when I take my portable disk to the other machine to work, rather than work from the portable disk, I want to copy the entire project folder to the other machine’s drive. It’s the main workstation where the work will ultimately reside, so my portable drive is simply the “rough-in” drive. I work from home on this drive, then take what I’ve done over to the main machine and copy everything over.
However, after what you said, when I copy the folder to the destination computer, I’ll need to go into FCP on that machine and change its scratch location to point to my folder that I just copied so I can finalize the project. Won’t this screw up everything else on that machine? If a previous project is pulled up after I leave, won’t everything in that project appear to be unrendered now?
I was hoping that the scratch/render file location would somehow be embedded within the project file, but it’s sounding like it’s more of a FCP global setting. Hmmm…