Russell Lasson
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Exporting the file to compressor instead of using DVDSP is better. It gives you more options.
Exporting a self-contained file at current settings then taking that file to compressor is the same as sending it directly from FCP to compressor.
If you have applied filters to the section of your film, then you might want to change the sequence settings to DV50 or Uncompressed. If the clips don’t need to be rendered, then that won’t help in getting the quality to be a little better.
-Russ
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It’s my understanding that it doesn’t support FCP realtime features though. But if you put it into a 10-bit uncompressed timeline it might behave the same as the animation codec.
-Russ
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It’s an uphill battle when you shoot on DV to make a great looking MPEG2 file, but you might try applying a 4:1:1 Color Smoothing filter (in the Key folder of Video Filters) before you compress the section. That should help cut down the artifacts.
Also, compression is more of an art than a setting. In your case, it will turn into an experiment. Try making several custom settings in compressor and seeing how each setting effects this section of your film. Play around with the advanced settings too (even if you don’t know exactly what they do).
Also, if you export a self contained movie file and open it in QuickTime, it won’t look good until you enable high-quality video for the clip in the QuickTime settings. (Apple+J – select video track – select visual settings – select high-quality video in lower right of the box.)
-Russ
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What camera did you shoot it on? Is it HD?
-Russ
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[Dave LaRonde] “when I want footage with an alpha channel… no rendering, either.”
Do you put it into a 10-bit uncompressed timeline or a animation timeline. Even though it might playback, don’t you need to render it before or on output?
-Russ
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You should really post this in the DVDSP forum.
My gut says that you should probably just encode it as 720P and not upconvert it. It won’t look any better. But I haven’t encoded a HD DVD before.
Also, I’m not sure if it will fit on a normal DVD and there aren’t HD DVD burners.
Did I mention that you should post this in the DVDSP forum because I’m talking about things I know very little about.
-Russ
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I get it now. FCE doesn’t allow you to change the audio to 44.1, right?
Without QTPro, I can’t think of a workaround for that.
-Russ
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I’ve only seen this happen when the content that you’re trying to render doesn’t have a check mark by it when you go to sequence – render all.
Most of the time I work with pretty much everything selected so I know how it will look when it’s final.
-Russ
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Not that I know of. When you stack one clip with an alpha channel on top of the other you will need to render it (though sometimes it might play it back at a lower quality in realtime.)
-Russ
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So you shot a TV with a camera and now your compressing it? What codec are you editing in?
-Russ