Ray Lane
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When I bring in the background movie for the menu, it is 1920×1080. When I choose the movie as the background Encore scales it to widescreen SD. The only option I see is to choose 4:3 or 16:9
Ray Lane
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Tough to say since you have an octo. My old G5 workstation takes a few hours for a 1 pass VBR through Compressor. The two pass took twice as long. My MacBook Pro seems to be similar using Adobe Media Encoder. And of course if you use MPEG4 it will be a bit longer.
Ray Lane
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It is a bluray project and its Encore CS4. When I bring in the movie, Encore scales it down to SD. It does still look great though 🙂
Ray Lane
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I exported the movie for the background from After Effects at 1920×1080, I then tried 1280×720. Both times the only options were 4:3 or 16:9 SD. Encore just scaled the movie down.
Ray Lane
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I bought the LaCie external burner and that has worked well. The speed hasn’t been a factor either, as the burning doesn’t take too long. It’s the encoding that kills you. From my experience, Encore is the weak link in the chain! I highly suggest getting a BD-RW and burning the project to the first.
Ray Lane
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Insert your multiclip onto the video track, but not the audio track. Then insert just the audio from the multiclip onto A1 and A2. Go back to the multiclip in the viewer and click the angle not currently selected. This will switch the audio and video. Now insert just the audio onto A3 and A4.
So, you should end up with your multiclip on V1, camera 1 audio on A1 and A2 and camera 2 on A3 and A4.
Now when you switch the multicam, the video will switch, but you’ll have all the audio tracks.
Ray Lane
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Greetings,
If you look at either angle in the timeline, does one angle say it is variable?
What I have found (on occasion) is that for some reason, FCP makes one angle a variable speed and just slowly the video gets more and more offset.
Unfortunately, I have never found anyone else with this problem, and it doesn’t happen all the time.
Ray Lane
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Seems to make sense, that would explain the whiring sound. Unfortunately, the repair center isn’t open ’til Monday 🙁
Thanks for your help!
Ray Lane
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Well,
It looks like even after a few weeks of stewing, perhaps I wrote too soon. I just received a call from an upper level manager and he apologized for what happened. He also mentioned that I was not the only person with similar complaints about the people I spoke to in tech. support.
He then did something that blew me away. He offered to send me a brand new 500GB drive to replace the one that kept breaking. I was pleasantly shocked.
I will re-post to let you know how it turns out.
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You are correct. Compressor re-renders the sequence when exported. This makes for a better encode, but a lot of wasted time. If you export a self-contained movie and then bring that into compressor it will go much quicker.