Rafael Amador
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[Jonathan Rojas] “You see, for some weird reason, with his Final Cut Pro 7, he can add the filter “Brightness and Contrast” to his clips and doesn’t have to render it at all. However, when I try to do it, I have to render (and my video is long so rendering is going to take forever).”
Is not that he don’t have to render. His filter will be rendered on exporting, but he has RT performance enough to preview the clip+filter (with lower quality) without rendering.The reason may be that he has a more powerful system, or that you haven’t set your system RT option properly.
In your time-line, under the “Sequence” tab, there is an small button: RT.
Click and set:
– Unlimited RT
– Playback Video Quality: Dynamic.
– Playback frame Rate: Dynamic.
That should help.
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[becky balsano] “My question really is can I delete the 94 gigs of render”
Yes, you can.
In fact would be a good idea even if FC was behaving properly.rafael
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Try installing PERIAN.
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[chris rust] ” I have a project shot on HDV, edited in FCP7 ( HDV native). My client wants me to output a version onto 16gb flash drives for playback on PC laptops. My initial output was to QT – giving me a .mov file. The first test on a PC the .mov would not play. “
SONY had the brilliant idea of making different the HDV codecs for the Mac and te PC.
So HDV files are not cross-platform.[chris rust] “Then I tried converting to Mp4. This test was interesting, because the vid played back, audio was good, but the aspect was wrong. “
Your choice of MP4 was correct.
The distortion is a different issue.
I guess you shoot HDV 1080, which is 1440×1080 HD Pixels, but the standard for HD is 1920×1080 SQUARED PIXELS.
So when exporting, in the Geometry options, change to that specs; 1920×1080 Squared Pixels.
if there is not an option for pixels (QT Player), just forget about and export 1920×1080.
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[Jeffrey Wells] “I’ve been playing with MPEGStreamclip, but I can’t seem to find settings that don’t turn this 170MB AVI into a 10GB file.”
“SAVE AS…” is the function.
This changes the AVI container for a QT container, keeping the whole original video and audio information (codec included). There is not any kind of processing, so the stuff can not change in file size, quality, or whatever.In MPGSTREAMCLIP “File” menu, you have the “Save as..” function and with a few option: MOV, MP4, AVI and DV.
Use MOV.
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You can get QT.7 from previous MacOsX DVDs (Leopard, Snow Leopard..).
You can also do it with MPGStreamclip. Is free.
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Open the file with QT and “Save as..”.
This will rewrap the A/V contents as QT movie without reprocessing.
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[Bjorn Aunet] “I guess the only question I have is, if I were to export it as H.264 and then converted it into a pro res file, would that work, or would I lose quality? “
If you export a High Profile H264 (422, 10b), intraframe and with almost no compresion, you would lose no quality. however you can not export that kind of H264 with QT/FC.
And even being possible, in the end you will need FCP 6/7 to make the Prores conversion.
No way to convert to Prores without FC 6 or 7 installed.
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[Bjorn Aunet] ” It doesn’t look like my version of FCP has this codec available. “
Which FC version do you have?
Prores was first implemented in FCS2. So if you are in fc 6/7 you should have it available.
If not, reinstal or run Software Update.
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A faster System HD will help, but what is more important is that you put all your media files and render folder on any external fast HD.
rafael