[Stan Ilchev]

Hey Dave,

That’s what I ended up doing – transcoding to lossless codec. I tried the QT thing but that wasn’t the problem. The reason why I don’t like transcoding (if the composition is not going to be that heavy and the computer can still work with the compressed footage without dropping frames) is simply storage. It’s unnecessary hard-drive space.

I got the job done, but I just want to figure out what the hell happened. There were no extra plugins added from the time it was working to the time it wasn’t. I saved it and it was working, and the next day I opened it and it wasn’t.

It’s one of those “ghosts in the machine” kind thing I guess.

Thanks for the help.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply.

I have the latest version of QT7 Pro.

The perplexing part is that it was working great. No issues, everything worked perfect. Then one day I open the project and AE acts like it’s never heard of the .m2v file format.

Any other suggestions perhaps. Is there a way ot reet AE somehow?

Thanks

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hi Jim,

Did you ever figure out its function??

Thanks much.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

The reason why I made it progressive because I had to composite graphics on top. Any suggestions on how to take it from here without going back steps??

Thanks

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks or the quick reply.

I thought it order to put it on a DVD it has to be interlaced since most television sets play interlaced footage.I know these days DVD players have chips that interlace of the fly, but what about older ones. Ideally, I would like to achieve maximum compatibility and quality.

Thanks much.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

That’s what I did : ) Thank you for the quick reply.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Also, I forgot to mention, if you decide to go this way, make sure that the Frame Rate in Session Setup in ProTools matches the frame rate of you video.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hey Dell,

I am in EXACTLY the same boat as you. I read your post and it’s amazing how similar our situations are. I got the same footage (format, resolution, etc.) and the same exact external audio.

Anyway, I think I might have found work around with ProTools. It’s some extra steps but if push comes to shove it has to be done. What I did was:

1. Export the video from Final Cut (can be as reference movie or not)
2. Import that video into ProTools including the audio track from it.
3. Import the new audio (the one that wasn’t shot with the camera mic) – make sure you set your ProTools settings to 48kHz 16bit AIF (at least that’s what I did)
4. Sync the two track in there (DEAD SYNCED from beginning to end, NO DRIFTING : ))
5. Export from ProTools as QuickTime movie. (It will export exactly with the same codec and settings that you imported with)

I know this sounds like a pain in the ass but that’s the only thing I’ve been able to figure out so far. If you have an epiphany please share.

Thanks an good luck.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hey Michael,

Thanx for the link, I’ll definitely check it out.

I didn’t do the shoot, I’m only doing the post production and I have no idea what camera they used. What I got from the client is a Hard Drive with MP4 files, which I converted to ProRes (I was thinking whenever I was doing that to change it to 48 kHz, but I figured on that much footage (20 Hours) it wasn’t worth the rendering time. BIG MISTAKE it turns out. The audio on the MP4s was 44.1 kHz. I also got WAV files that were recorded at 44.1 kHz, but no clock was run between the two machines. First I thought that it was the actual machine that was drifting, but I know for sure it’s Final Cut now. I did a little experiment with ProTools and everything DEAD SYNCs in there from beginning to end. It’s going to be some extra steps but you gotta do what you gotta do, right.

Please if you have any thoughts or suggestions I’ll be more then happy to hear them in order to avoid all of the transferring between ProTools and Final Cut.

Thanks for all you help so far.

Stan

[Stan Ilchev]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The thing is he just decided to replace the audio after all of the editing is done.

Is there anyway I can covert it within Final Cut? Is the audio that comes with the video 48 kHz or 44.1 kHz since I rendered it out? If they were both recorded at 44.1 I don’t understand why they would be drifting away, if they’re in the same sequence. I’ve lost a lot of hair over this 😉

Also, how would I find that tutorial?

Thanks a lot man, I really appreciate you putting in the time.

Stan