[Richard Van harderwijk]

re-import the stills after you have changed the setting

grtz

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi

“…I export as Apple ProRes 422 NTSC 48kHz Anamorphic…”

Try export with sequence settings and let compressor do all conversion.

It looks as if you do two conversions, one -only?- scaling in FCP, from HDV->NTSC and then in compressor conversion to MPEG2. And the standard setting 90 mins should work fine.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi

I’ve had the same with the same camera.

In the menu, there is also an iLink downconvert setting. Check that out, in my case it solved the problem. (What it does is downconvert the HDV stream to DV. So the tape and recording is HDV, your FCP settings HDV, but the stream coming in is DV…)

[Richard Van harderwijk]

I use the final cut suite3 (FCP7 and motion 4 and etc) on 10.7 lion. It works fine.

But I learned from apple support you have to install the software, then DON’T open it, but run the software update multiple times until there are no updates anymore (they stressed this was crucial), then run the apps.

And you speak about motion3, the suite has motion 4(.0.3). Have you installed two different suites? That can give crashes.

Perhaps you have to clean install the suite

Good luck

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Mahmoud,

I’ve had the same problem. I got a project with different frame rates and codec’s. I didn’t know the solution back then, but I just nested the sequence in another (DV codec, it was to produce a DVD) and renderd. That did the trick.

I later learned it has to do not all audio files have the frame rate in it and then FCP picks it standard setting, And that can cause drifting. See link below for a explanation how to solve it.

Good luck

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1147400#1147445

[Richard Van harderwijk]

I have one

Works perfectly

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Ben,

See this thread on the cow about making DVD’s in DVDSP (FCP->Compressor->DVDSP)

“FCP 7 Export via Compressor for DVD Studio Pro Mastering”

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1157709#1157741

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Age old problem indeed, but freaked me to dead today…
Codec not found, with ProRes all over the place…

FCP 7.0.3, ProRes HQ in a timeline and with the rotate 180 filter the timeline didn’t render anymore. I thought, well I don’t care, I just need to export the thing…. Grumbl, the same message. Exporting in HDV went well.

My solution: In sequence settings->video processing I had put the options on ‘render in high-precision yuv’. Putting it back to ‘render in 8-bit yuv‘ did the thing 😀 Happy!!! Deadline tomorrow. Still strange, ProRes is 10 bit…

Google was a big help, and mostly this tread (as always on the cow 😉 It seems that sometimes fiddeling the render settings gives this error (and the solution;-).

Hope this helps other people.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

As Dave says, H.264 is a delivery codec (ao web delivery). You want to make a DVD, so your target codec’s are MPEG2 and AC3. It is best, quality wise, not to render to different codec’s in between.

If your source material is DV/DVCPRO, then don’t rerender. If you put other codec’s in a DV/DVCPRO timeline, follow Dave’s advice and make a ProRes export (better even to change the codec of the sequence from the beginning, but you’re finished, so leave it) . (If the origin is down sampled (how?) HD (H264?) then it doesn’t matter much, because the target is a heavy compressed DVD, 170 min.)

Again, you must make two files: MPEG2 (video) and AC3(audio) and no H264 for DVD’s. I think the most easy thing to do is use a preset setting in compressor (DVD 150 min) and change the bitrate to the settings you calculated.

In DVDSP you can import assests and it will immediately recognize the MPEG2 and AC3 files (green dot 🙂

I assume you know how the programs work. OK?

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Drea,

Workflow is as follows:

• Export your sequence to a quicktime file, use the same codec as your timeline codec. So no transcoding here.
• Use compressor to make MPEG2 (video) and AC3 (sound) files from the export quicktime.
• Import the MPEG2 and AC3’s in DVDSP

2 hr 50 min is more than 150 minutes… You have to manually set the bitrate in compressor. For a calculation sheet, see this link:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/bit_budget.html

If you want to test it, export a short piece of your timeline and do the above steps (with the calculated target bitrate), choose a part with movement/changes etc in it.

For your render speed: lots of coffee and patience… But compressor can run in the background (do not send to compressor directly from tcp) so you can do other things in the meantime.