[Ronan Feely]

Hi Michael,

I set the sequence’s compressor set to ProRes (not ProResHQ) and exported the movie as Current Settings and Self-Contained.

When I opened the resulting .mov in Compressor, I couldn’t use anything other than the DVD mp4 option.

The Frame Control Tab was turned off and was not able to be set otherwise so I couldn’t set the setting within that tab.

When I tried bringing my (Apple ProRes) sequence straight into Compressor I was able to use a DVD m2v preset, turn on the Frame Control Tab,and set the Resize filter to BEST.

However, when I Encoded it, the results were dreadful.

R.

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[Ronan Feely]

I’ll try again Michael and let you know how it goes … thank you …

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[Ronan Feely]

Michael, I tried t find out how to convert everything to 720×480 ProRes but to no avail.

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[Ronan Feely]

Thanks Jeff, I’ll give that a shot … someone told about a Bonzai Method … can’t find it online … it must not be that popular.

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[Ronan Feely]

Hi Shane,

What do you mean by that “matches your show timing”?

Ronan

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[Ronan Feely]

Wow … thanks guys.

I’ll try to answer all your questions one at a time.

I am a novice and don’t understand a lot of the industry talk you guys have. My background is/was more production than post-production, producing documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4in the UK and RTE in Ireland. I’m just moving into editing and so the terms are still baffling.

Ok, here goes.

Paul,

I realize I will loose quality … but my initial conversions to DVD were so bad they were laughable. Things have gotten better when I skip the Compressor step.

Thanks for the heads up on the downscaling. Michael addresses it too.
Michael

The standard ProRes is the one in the sequence settings box under General > Quicktime Settings > Compressor? Is this correct? I select Apple ProRes 422? Do I leave the screen size and the Pixel ration the same (1440 x 1080)

. Then if you are exporting as NOT self-contained it is by passing the compressor setting for all but the parts that have been rendered.

I have sent the timeline to compressor within FCP and while it wasn’t the quality was poor.

I also have nio idea where the encoder tab is to set to ENCODER tab Video Format: <29.97> <16:9> “Make sure the field Dom, is set to do not leave it on Auto. Quality: Mode to Average Bitrate to 6, max is grayed out, motion doesn’t matter leave the rest as is. FRAME CONTROL tab Turn it on. Set resize filter to make sure output fields is set to same as source.” Are these al in Compressor?

Ken

Thanks for your input. When I figure this all out I”ll go for 7.8 mbps and make sure the setting in Compressor has the Frame Controls “On” and the Resize Filter to “Best”. Output fields should be “Same as source”.

Finally, do any of you know where I can find a good tutorial here or elsewhere online? I’m sure this will be easy once I get it once.

Thanks.

Ronan

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