Spencer Averick
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Bummer about the clips breaking up. Shane might have a better solution, but here’s what I would do.
-If you have all of the clips for CAM A in a timeline (as ProRes 422) synced to the audio, export that as a QUICKTIME MOVIE. This is full res 422. Now you have that as your main hi-res clip that you can put in a new “422” folder.
-Do the same for CAM B, CAM C, etc.
-In the finder, open all of your full res clips OPEN WITH>COMPRESSOR.
-Now in Compressor in the SETTINGS window, search “PROXY”. Now you will see the Proxy setting . Drag that setting to your clips that have opened in compressor. Now hit Submit, then OKAY and you’re files will start compressing to Proxy.
Now you have identical 422 and Proxy clips that you can easily swap out (reconnect to) in your sequence.
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Which NLE are you using? FCP7 and iChat have a cool sharing function if both parties are setup correctly.
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So weird man. Once I had keyboard with a sort of jammed “3” key and every now and then it would just start hammering out a bunch of 3’s without me touching it. You might try swapping out the keyboard, but I don’t see how FCP can just start exporting without even showing a dialog box, assuming you had export mapped. You should try to get that ghost to start actually editing for you instead of just wasting time on useless exports.
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When you go to System Settings, your scratch disk is set to a drive that has space on it?
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Yes without knowing all the details I’d say you probably can’t do it. Your movie was either shot 4×3 or 16×9. It’s like trying to turn a square into a rectangle, it will be stretched out. You can put your 4×3 movie into a 16×9 frame with black bars on the side, that is one option but obviously looks weird. If your movie was shot SD anamorphic then you’ll probably be okay but it doesn’t sound like it was.
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Export a full res Quicktime Movie first, then bring it into Compressor and add the H.264 Webcast setting to it, then adjust these settings:
-Geometry>Frame Size 960×540
-Encoder>Video Settings>Frame Rate set to “current”
-Encoder>Video Settings>Restrict Data Rate to 2000 or even 1000 is fine if the source material is good. -
Also try changing your capture preset to “HDV-Apple ProRes 422”
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[Vuk Vukmirovic] “Yes, it was set to H264 as most video is from DSLR. “
Both H.264 and HDV really suck in FCP. Always always transcode to ProRes before bringing in to the project and then always keep your sequence compressor set at that same flavor of ProRes.[Vuk Vukmirovic] “[Spencer Averick] “Try setting that to ProResHQ in FCP and do a test export to see how it looks”
I can do that, but will this help fix a problem of “one image in the viewer, the other in exported image”?
“Yes, the canvas/timeline in FCP isn’t going to be accurate (although set your canvas to 100% and see how that looks (It will be more true, but not as true as a ref monitor).
Also, the exported image will be far closer to reality than inside FCP.This is a bit messy, I can’t really speak to the PPro workaround, but if I were you I think I would go back to my original OFFLINE sequence, set the compressor setting to ProRes422, render everything for a few hours in the timeline. Then start your color correcting in FCP with the 3-way filter. As you go, export full res test clips that have been cc’d and see how they look in QT player. Then maybe compress that for DVD and up the data rate a bit, see how it looks on a tv. The dvd compression will never be as good as the full res QT, that’s why if this screens in a theater it won’t be from a dvd, rather an hdcam or even straight from the full res QT.
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[Vuk Vukmirovic] “The video was done with different cameras”
[Vuk Vukmirovic] “The sequence I worked on was set for DSLR footage”
Are you saying your the sequence codec was set to H.264? Try setting that to ProResHQ in FCP and do a test export to see how it looks. Stay away from h.264 in FCP.
If your source material looks good and is ProRes, and your sequence is set to the same ProRes, then there is no problem adding basic 3-way color filter and exporting a great looking full-res ProRes movie. When you compress for DVD you will always lose some quality, although you can set the data rate higher for better quality. -
Yes like Andrew said set your canvas to 100% and see how that looks, probably much better. Keep your images at the original high quality, then set to 100% to view. Export that out as a Quicktime movie and see how it looks in QT player. It shouldn’t be as bad as you see it now, but bringing hi res images into a 720×480 SD sequence will result in major quality loss.