Rafael Amador
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Ryan,
This question can be silly, but for any chance have you got an IN and OUT points set in your sequence? If so FC will only render in between the marks.
Rafael -
Sorry I forgot to tell you I reccommend you to try “Chroma Sharpening” of Nattresse. Drop it in your DV footage in a 8/10b Unc time-line and you will get shock seeing how all the blockyness disappear. Make a test with somebody wearing a red T-shirt. The red goes back to the shirt instead of spreading all around. Magic. This toguether with a CC will make your movie look as would have been recorded with a much better camera. Your DVDs will look also far much better.
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[rob moreno] “> Exporting a self-contained file at current settings then taking that file to compressor is the > same as sending it directly from FCP to compressor.
Actually this is not necessarily true. When you have several video layers, especially text and graphics, exporting from the FCP timeline will give you much better results because these layers are compressed directly to MPEG-2 from their native format.”
That’s right and this is the reason that if you don’t send it from your time-line, you better export in an Uncompressed codec (8/10b Unc).
As Russel says:It’s an uphill battle when you shoot on DV to make a great looking MPEG2 file, but you might try applying a 4:1:1 Color Smoothing filter (in the Key folder of Video Filters) before you compress the section. That should help cut down the artifacts.
This is right too but this works if your set your time-line in with a codec better than DV. If keeps in DV all the Chroma Smoothing goes away.
I would recommend you edit your fim in DV and when ready change the setting of your sequence to 8/10b Unc. Then you have the three options:
– Export to Compressor from the time-line. This will take long time because all the movie will be rendered even if you have already render all and you will have working the two applications.
– Once you have rendered all your sequence export a Refference moovie and send it to Compressor .
– Export a “Self-contained movie” and send to Compressor.
Each one got his favarite method.
If I’m not too pressed I preffer the first one. Whatever you have set and how you have set your sequence you are sending a full 444 movie to Compressor, as Rob Moreno says.
Cheers,
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Mortimer,
In the Ken Stone web-site you got a very good article call “Compression and Chapter Markers” by Ken Stone. If you export a refference movie is not necesary to set them.
cheers,
rafael -
Without hesitate: Sheer.
You got RGB(A) 8/10b and YCbCr(A) 8/10b 444 or 422. And the size of the files are a fraction of the Apple Unc. Works great.
Cheers,
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(Dave LaRonde) You DON’T NEED ONE if you shoot 30p. You capture DV as normal, and you work in a DV timeline as normal. The progressive scan is taken care of inside the camera, and it comes out as normal, interlaced DV video. But because the camera captures the whole frame in the same instant, then records two fields from this complete frame, it looks like a complete frame. Very cool.
[JeremyG] You should change the field order of the sequence from lower to none though, that way all renders will remain progressive (such as graphics, text, whatever) and not get rendered interlaced.
I think that those are the two most important points. Shoot 30p and edit in a 60i with the field order set to NONE.
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Lori,
The interlacing problem can arise from other elements appart than from setting wrong field-order of a sequence or the footage. Have you move or animated any interlaced footage in your movie? When you reposition footage in FC, up or down, you must do it always an even number of pixels. If you move your image an odd number of pixels up or down the effect is the same than if you set the wrong order of the fiels in your footage. You can move it right or left freely, but not up and down.
With the Compresor pre-sets you can not have any interlacing problem as long as your got not interlacing problems. You have to make sure that your FC sequence and the exported movies (refference or sel-contained, the same) have not such problem, The only way to be sure about is with an interlaced monitor. A tv conected to the camera is enough.
Other way to test if your .mov have been rendered in the correct order is with a program that allow you to avance the movie in 1 Field steps. You can do it with Shake or AE.
You talk about de-interlacing the movie. This will affect depending of the kind of images of your film. You can do it in FC. Drop a de-interlacing filter and set in “Sequence setting” the field-order to NONE.
Hope this helps.
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Nicolle,
When you put your clips in sequence you will see a thin red-line on top of the time-line under a thin grey line. The thin gray line mean that your video don’t need to be rendered. The red line says that your audio need rendering. To render the audio just click the clip in the time-line and type: Com-R. this will render the audio.
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Hi Mortime,
As John says when sending to Compressor from the time-line everything is re-render. So if you got everything rendered in your time-line you can export a refference movie or a full movie (try to set the “Compression markers) and Compressor will work much faster.
I’ve got the habit of using the “Activity monitor” when rendering with FC or Compressor. The main window give you information about the CPU use (%). Also the “Disk Activity” window give you information about the data that the disks are reading and writing. Those values can give you a tip if there is any thing slowing down the rendering.
Cheers,
Rafael -
Hi Lori,
The easiest way. If you got all your sequence rendered, export a QT Refference movie (Not Self Contained). Open Compressor and drop your refference movie. Drop one of the DVD presets acording with the lenth of your project and the quality you want the MPG2. Drop an AIFF preset for the audio. Compress.
Them bring those MPG2 and the AIFF to DVDSTPro or iDVD and is done.
You should try to monitor all the process (starting by the FC editing) with an interlaced monitor or TV.
Cheers,
rafael