Shane Trowbridge
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Bill I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to break this down. I’ve actually read this through a few times and plan to read it a few times more to make sure I’m digesting it all.
Your comments about compound clips on the EB vs the “Timeline” make a lot of sense. oddly enoough, I created the compound clip in the EB so based on what you are saying I shouldn’t have had this issue.
The reality is I am still in the learning stage with X so it’s possible I made some small mistake that I overlooked though I’m not sure what that would be.
I’m on a deadline with this project that I have the issue on so I think I’m just going to McGyver it to get it done but I think I need to try and go back to see if I can recreate the problem.
Any other insight you have would be welcome. Thanks again!
Shane
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Dave-
My scratch is set up to an external 1.5TB drive using a USB connection. It’s been a pretty solid drive.
Shane
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That is correct, that is not what I was talking about. Here is what I did. It was a multicamera interview. Camera A was Panasonic P2 (DVCProHD I believe). Camera B was a little JVC that shoots native QT files (Mpeg 2). I basically took the entire interview and made a compound clip out of it for the purpose of going back and doing a “multicam” type edit. And yes it was set to ProRes.
It seems like everything is thrown off. I did a BUNCH of keywording so it’s hard to see if there is any consistency with the issue. I just know that it’s not at all the segments that I attacked the keyword to.Also, I’m not understanding the difference between keywording and smart collections.
Thanks for your help!
Shane
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To give a little more detail. I marked all of my in and outs using the the standard I and O. And when I assigned keywords I could see that they were “attaching” themselves to the clips.
The keyword selections (smart collections I believe they are called) all showed up in the event library like they were supposed to (I made the mistake of not checking them for accuracy as I was creating them. I assumed they were correct)
When I was done logging the clips I had a LONG list of keyworded segments. To be organized, I created a new folder in the event library and named it “interview clips” I then drug the smart collections/keyworded segments into it. I then closed up shop and went home. When I came in the next day, all the smart collection clips were just a bunch of random clips.
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To give a little more detail. I marked all of my in and outs using the the standard I and O. And when I assigned keywords I could see that they were “attaching” themselves to the clips.
The keyword selections (smart collections I believe they are called) all showed up in the event library like they were supposed to (I made the mistake of not checking them for accuracy as I was creating them. I assumed they were correct)
When I was done logging the clips I had a LONG list of keyworded segments. To be organized, I created a new folder in the event library and named it “interview clips” I then drug the smart collections/keyworded segments into it. I then closed up shop and went home. When I came in the next day, all the smart collection clips were just a bunch of random clips.
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okay, odd, I thought I was creating .mp4’s with h264 when I was using Compressor 3. Shows that I probably didn’t realize what I was doing.
Oh well, going forward I will use compressor 4 anyway.
shane
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okay that actually makes sense. So basically H264 is a “form” of MPEG 4?
Thanks for the clarity on .mp4 as a container. That is actually what I was needing. I think I was getting MPEG 4 and Mp4 confused.
Shane
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Do when I send it to compressor which setting do I need to apply to it to make it optimal for DVDSP?
Shane
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awesome. thanks guys. I will start to experiment. Sounds like it’s not too difficult. thanks!
Shane
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Thanks Matt, I will start a new thread.
I will also try your compressor suggestion and see what it yields. I am just not that familar with MPEG4 so I don’t know if what I am doing is even right.
I am working with a video platform designed by web guys with no video experience so I am not even sure they have it set up optimally.
Thanks for the time!
Shane