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That’s weird about the batch render being greyed out. Usually if you have unrendered stuff in the timeline, it will still export, it just takes a little longer since it has to render on the fly, but if compressor is doing for you, that works too! I’ve always had issues setting up compressor for multiple cores, though maybe it’s different as I’m on a Quad.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There is a batch export function in Final Cut. Select all sequences, go to File > Batch Export and set the destination and you’re going. Likewise, you probably could do it in compressor with the watermark filter to get your overlay on. If you have a Kona 3 card, you can use their downstream keyer to get your graphic on in real time as you lay to tape.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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When you drop it into compressor, and set the conversion (using the Advanced Format Conversions presets) make sure that “Frame Controls” in the inspector is turned on. Set the resizing method to the highest quality, same with the frame rate if you’re adjusting that. I will warn you, this will take a very long time. Also, it will do a good job, but truth be told, a hardware conversion would do a better job.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Yowzer! Yes, a 24p project edited with a mixed cadence will indeed not be able to reverse telecine. Here’s an option, though not very pretty. You could select all in your sequence, and use the media manager to copy all media to a new a location. Make sure you select it to delete unused portions, but I would include handles just in case. It will spit all your media out to that new location. Next, create a droplet from compressor to auto a reverse telecine on all your clips. Once that’s done, you’ll have true 23.976 clips. You will now have to manually re-edit them. (And don’t cut them over the original sequence, you’ll have to create a 23.976 sequence)
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Doing it within FCP will not yield great results. Where are you going to have it laid back to Betacam? If they are using FCP with a LHe, they can downconvert in realtime as they lay it back to tape. It will down convert in realtime, and it will look very good. If you have a lot of motion graphics in your piece though, the downconversion might introduce moire that wasn’t there in HD.
I would find out what the dub house wants first.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Under the frame controls tab (in the inspector) in Compressor, you have to turn frame controls on, and on the Deinterlace tab, select reverse telecine from the drop down.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Kent,
How does partitioning your hard drive cause you to lose performance? I only ask because I have this setup, with a 750GB drive partitioned into one OS for FCP and another for Media Composer. I haven’t noticed any performance issues, but I haven’t pushed it that hard since setting up the dual boot.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Qualified OS and Quicktime issues. Media Composer 3.5 is qualified with OSX 10.5.5 or 10.5.6 but only Quicktime 7.5. FCP work with both OS fine, and up to QT 7.5 or 7.6. If you have 10.5.5 and QT 7.5, you’re okay for the time being, but since the qualified OS and QT version between these two shift fairly frequently, you’re best off setting up a dual boot setup with one OS optimized for Media Composer and the other optimized for FCP. I’ve set my system up like this, and it works like a champ.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Honestly, there is no very quick fix. While I’m sure you’ve learned your lesson now, the only advice I have is that you need to very careful about your sequence settings. You can try pasting attributes to get some of that keyframing back, that is very much a crap shoot since it will all be approximate, and not extremely accurate. The other thing, is that you will probably have 1 frame gaps intermittently between clips. Same deal, you’ll need to fix those manually. I’ve been there, it’s no fun.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Thanks guys! Back on track!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks