[Rob Miller]

Hey again,

So after FCP7 quit after 8 hours of using 15% maximum of my CPU to render the files as ProRes… Now I have some of the files rendered, at 720p (the footage was shot in 1080p), and all my clips are heavily cropped down.

How would i fix this? I thought I set everything to just downscale the footage… Was that a bad idea?

Thanks,

Rob

P.s. Shane, you are wonderful and awesome. Thank you for helping a stupid beginner save a project that was almost doomed from the start :-/

I am Rob.

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[Rob Miller]

Also, would FCP7 convert the files in my sequence to ProRes as well?

And, sorry for the stupid questions, but would ProRes422 standard be good enough for the DVD?

Thanks, I really appreciate the help, you’re making everything so much easier 🙂

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[Rob Miller]

Awesome. Thank you so much, I appreciate it! I hope this’ll work a bit better 🙂

The files in question are actually gone gone. The first part of the movie that is a .mov is smooth and doesn’t have any of the problems like the rest of the footage.. Do you think (this is such a work around…) if I took the clip from that part of the movie, and convert it and put it in my new ProRes sequence?

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[Rob Miller]

And my sequence settings are the same.

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[Rob Miller]

Oh damn… I did not convert to ProRes before I started the 30+ hours of editing…

Everything was in H.264. I also lost some of my source footage, but final cut pro is still playing the files… Probably because they were rendered with a color corrector?

Am I screwed? :-/

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[Rob Miller]

Hey Shane,

I am creating a DVD project that will be sent to a DVD duplication service. I figured that the DVD authoring wouldn’t downscale the footage, so trying the higher-quality files was stupid.

I followed the steps you provided, and I was presented with the same results I received last time.

I exported a Quicktime file from FCP7, then used Compressor with the DVD Best 90min preset to transcode the QT file. I am left with footage that is good, however there are still the frame freezing and artifacting with transitions… Do I have to troubleshoot in my original FCP7 project or what?

I am Rob.

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