[Roli Rivelino]

OK last question (promise!) encoding separately is obvious, but how do I stitch together in QT pro?

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1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

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Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Ah great thanks, I’ll try using the VBR, but at some point I’d like to try what you propose by sticking to the same codec but at different settings.

How would I do this, would I add in and out points?

I’ve never done anything in compressor but mess around with the settings and encode the entire video, so I’m not sure how to do all of that extra stuff.

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1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
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1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Thanks for your answer Daniel, just a quick one, where would I find the temporal noise reduction filters, would that be in the filter section of the particular codec I’m using within compressor?

To answer your question I’m trying to achieve the best quality non lossy video I can, my video contains quite a few static or slow moving shots combined with some fast energetic dancing, as I understand it may be better to encode the dancing bits differently.

On this one time is not such a big issue.

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1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Ah, thought so looks like a hire job for me then.

many thanks

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8Gb RAM
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1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

It looks like your sequence settings were set incorrectly, when you drop the clips into your timeline FCP should ask you if you want to set your sequence settings to the same as your clip settings, say yes and everything should be ok.

If FCP doesn’t ask you this then you need to go into easy set up and set formats to all formats.

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1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Yeah if money’s not a problem go for an 8 core, you can always get more RAM down the line, but swapping your processor, it’s not so easy I believe. I have a quad and wish I had an 8.

good luck and happy editing.

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1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Cool Wayne, it’s nice to know I am barking up the right tree, that’s a good idea with the trailers, is it a particular part of the site, or will I be able to find them easily?

Many thanks

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1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

I have the same camera Natasha and the only time I use the tape part of it, is if I’m doing a job that the client absolutely needs the tape as soon as I’ve finished filming; otherwise stick with HD if you’re using an FS hard drive then set it to quicktime 720p for nice easy headache free editing.

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1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Hi Rafael,

When I tweaked the H.264 settings I kept getting problems, the main tweak I was doing was changing the size from the default to 1920×1080 or to 1280×720.

I also messed around with the bitrate, sometimes bringing it down to as low as 1000mbps.

I also tried changing the key frames, but after advice from you I left those on auto and just tried adjusting the size and was still getting problems.

The apple HD settings seem to be Apple specific codecs and therefore will only play on a recent mac so those were no good to me.

So it would seem that it’s the size that makes a difference and from now on I guess I’ll output at half the size whether it be 1080 or 720 and that will solve my problems, I’m hoping.

Unless you know of a good codec to use whereby I can give someone a good quality full size version of my HD footage?

many thanks

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Thanks Tom, when I said mm I probably meant cm, as in centimetres

many thanks

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100