Scott Stolzar
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Also, the project was updated from a version of 6 (probably 6.0.6 although we’re not positive and don’t have that computer at hand) to 7.0.3. Additionally, some of the other smoothcam filters did carry through. Could the .mtdf files have gotten corrupted somehow? I trashed one of them in order to reapply the filter, and it went through the analysis but once it was rendered it did not work even though it had the same parameters.
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Did you just do the standard ProRes (LT) setting from Compressor? That defaults to do an audio pass-through, so it it probably left the audio as whatever format the camera compresses it in (AAC?) rather than converting it to something like Linear PCM.
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Does it fail immediately or go for a bit and then fail?
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Handbrake is another option. I’ve had better luck on DVDs with that than mpeg streamclip. Unfortunately it’s a two-step process with handbrake.
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So I’ve dealt with 24p and the Z1U, so this may not be applicable. With that camera the footage had to be recorded in 24pA and then change the Easy Setup to HDV-Apple ProRes 1080p24 for capture. That would remove the 2:3 pulldown and make it play back at 23.98. If it was set to just normal HDV 1080p24 the pulldown would not be removed. Recording in just regular 24p on that camera would give the cadence of 24 but would in fact be recorded and then captured/edited at 29.97.
Without the tapes though, I don’t think there’s a way to tell whether the pulldown was marked on the tapes.
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As I said in my original post, I had tried re-exporting the QT movie from FCP. Twice actually. The second time I even completely re-rendered the sequence before exporting.
It did work when I exported it overnight and I didn’t notice anything wrong with the file so at least I know that it will work even if it takes forever.
Thanks for your help.
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Thanks for the advice. I’ll try the single pass method. I had tried the virtual cluster before (forgot to mention that) but the same thing happened.
I briefly looked into the TurboHD, but I’m actually saving up for a Mac Pro so I’m trying to only buy absolutely necessary items.
Is there anything maintenance-wise that I can do with my computer that might help boost the speed?
In the meantime, I’m going to try to just let compressor run overnight and see what happens. Hopefully it will at least finish compressing. I will follow up.
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The source quicktime plays fine if that’s what you mean by checking the file. I’ve tried the standard Compressor H.264 as well as some of my own custom templates and the same thing happens. I haven’t tried Send To Compressor because I’ve had bad luck with that in the past (taking forever, using different i/o points for some clips). I’ll give it a shot because I’ve nothing to lose. However, the fact that it won’t compress a self contained ProRes movie is quite a problem for a piece of Apple pro-video software.
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That’s not the shot that was keyed. Unfortunately that one is on the drives at work. This was actually the one I was having trouble with getting rid of the tracking points before I made the new key, which does not have any reflectivity since it was made from a piece of paper. If I could get the same angle, I could shoot the iPad from the same angle, make it out and composite that in, although as I write that I imagine that might be difficult to do in a few hours.
I’ll try to upload the actual footage tomorrow morning to give you a better idea. Thanks for all of your help.
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Here is a link to the old key that I’m talking about:
https://reels.creativecow.net/film/old-ipad-key
Keep in mind that I have already made a new key and they just want to make the graphic have the reflective quality of the iPad screen. However, you can see how the actor and some of the ceiling is reflected in that image. Could I somehow use a composite mode with a shape to add some glare? Unfortunately I only have tomorrow morning to complete it.