Rafael Amador
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Hi Jonathan,
For the x264, you can use HandBrake.
About the color on the picture, the skin tones are not too bad. Try to get rid of the green on the shadows.
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“QT Edit”, from Digital Rebellion, might help you. Not sure but you should contact them.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promedia/features.html
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Then with the exported QT file you can compress an MPEG-2 in Compressor, but to have audio and sound together, you will need an MPEG-2 with embed MP2 audio, in which case, QT Player won’t be able to play the sound.
Anyway MPEG-2 is a very compressed format, not suitable for archiving.
If you want to keep more quality while reducing file size, export an H264 (QT or MP4). Neither is an archive format, but at least is better than MPEG-2 and you will have no problem with the audio.
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I know that Compressor.4 has few options not available in Compressor.3 (like some Mp4 flavors, for instance h264/Mp4) but apart of that I don’t know what other differences may have.
As Jeff suggests, ask in the FCPX/FCPX Techniques forum.
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Hi Jonathan,
Sorry I read your mail too fast before.
For what I see the greenish cast is in all the picture although in the pictures at the left may seem more obvious because the Gamma.
Try exporting an x264. Get your self the x264 QT Component and make sure that you chck the “Gamma 2.2” flag.
Anyway I would try adding a bit of magenta to the picture, to try to balance the greenish cast.
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You can try HandBrake.
Just need to set the file size you want and the application will export an x264 with the optimal relation size/quality.
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[Jonathan Frank] “The footage is for website/computer usage so looking at it on my monitor should be a good indicator.”
That if your monitor is OK.
The only way to be sure that your color are correct, is by using an external pro monitor fed by an standard signal. Out of that, there are too many variables to know where the color/gamma shifts come from; Codecs, players, screens,..
I work with two computers screens (MBP & Dell-U24), a PANA Plasma TV and an external pro monitor connected through an AJA card. The last one is the only one I trust. If my Prores masters looks Ok on this one, I don’t care how they look somewhere else because I know they will look different on any other screen or with any other player or when compressed to other codec, but that’s not my fault.
You can’t make an “universal’ movie that looks the same everywhere.
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Having the media on your system HD is reason enough to make things going slow, and th easier thing to fix.
Get your self an external HD.
Rafael