Renee Litapop
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I saw that there was a whole other DNx export menu, and I am not sure what the difference is. The specs provided seemed to exactly match the setting I used (MXF XDCAM 50i). Is DNx a different wrapper? Can you explain the difference between those two export menus?
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ok, thank you! This is the first response that makes sense to me. Actually, yes, the film has a lot of long takes and quote static shots, so what you are saying seems very plausible.
Can you recommend a different inspector that I can use to get more accurate information about the file other than QT inspector?
The file actually looks fine to me—if I play it side by side with the higher data rate ProRes file it doesn’t look really different to my eye, but I’m concerned that the broadcaster will see that the data rate number looks too low and will reject it.
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How would I set that up? In the MXF OP1a export menu I can either choose to match to my sequence settings (which gives me an error message / doesn’t work), or I need to select a format. I selected XDCAM 50 PAL 50i, and with this selected there is no way to manually change the bit rate. Is there some other way to customize my export that I am not seeing that would allow me to change it? Could you give more detail about what you are recommending?
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Isn’t the whole point of the XDCAM 50 preset that it is supposed to ensure a data rate of 50? There seems to be no place to adjust this parameter, so I have not idea how to generate the right kind of file other than selecting the preset called 50.
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I can’t get it to look as good in Premiere – when I remove pulldown in Premiere it is doubling frames and not guessing the pulldown pattern correctly. I’d be happy to stay in Premiere if there was a good workflow that you can suggest. Just putting the 29.97 clips into a 24p sequence does not do a good job.
Also, I now see that if I use the “original” 29.97 audio in my new 24p sequence, the sync does not actually drift… so it seems possible to use the original audio in a 24p timeline with the new framerate converted clip. But if there something bad that will happen later down the line if I work with 29.97 audio clips in my 24p timeline?
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Color correction will be done with davinci. Resolution is currently prores 1080.
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I’ve tried this suggestion – thank you but the problem is still happening. Always in the same few spots in my film. I change the levels to fix them, and when I come back to FCP the next day, my changes are gone. I am not having issues with other kinds of edits not getting saved… picture cuts and added clips are all there, but the audio level edits are magically erased by elves every time I sit down to edit. It’s getting maddening. Other ideas?
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unfortunately i’ve already tried that — no luck.
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thank you — i think i get it now! that calculator is very helpful.
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thank you for the questions and advice.
it is a web-based art project, so it does need to stream from the web to be viewed (i.e. not on a hard drive).
there are lots of little videos. the lengths range from about 10 seconds to 1 minute.
they are shot in HD at 1920 * 1080, 30P. i am exporting from final cut at full resolution. i believe the original shooting format uses H264 as a codec (it’s a canon T2i DSLR). in compressor i’ve been cropping to 4:3 (because there isn’t much visual information besides in the middle of the frame, so i thought it might save space / file size to get rid of the sides), and compressing to H264 (960 *720 resolution… which is what vimeo plays in HD, which has been what i’ve been using for reference).
so… based on your suggested file sizes, my files do seem to be maybe too big. my 1 minute compressed file is about 16 MB. my 12 MB file is about 36 seconds. so it does seem that i need to find a way to make smaller files. though, again, i’m curious about how vimeo is able to play back such big high resolution files when it’s in HD mode (i’ve loaded some of my videos onto vimeo, again for reference to see how they look there, and they seem only slightly smaller file size than my own compressed files).
anyhow… so it does sound like i need to make my files smaller. if you could suggest a workflow and some parameters that would be really great. again, it’s a very simple image of hands writing stuff on paper with a black background, but it’s critical that the text looks sharp or else it’s not legible.
my flash developer guy indeed does not know very much about video… which is why i’m trying to figure this out. i probably know more about video than him (i’m a filmmaker and editor) but have no experience preparing video for streaming / web.
what are the flash players that you would recommend? i can tell my flash person if you think that makes a big difference.
thanks again for your help!