[Tom Laughlin]

https://lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_export_files.html

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

I talked to my Emmy-award winning editor friend John Crossman with Crossman Post in Sandy, Utah, and he said to output everything, everytime, as an 8-bit uncompressed QuickTime, then dropping that into DVDSP, so DVDSP will see the files, and make the compressions where needed, whereas Compressor may compress more than what quality you’re looking for, so I’m making it a habit. I did some tests, and after seeing the exports from FCP to Self-Contained to DVDSP, FCP to Compressor to DVDSP, and FCP to QT-8bit to DVDSP, the best results were from FCP to QT-8bit to DVDSP in color, motion, movement, picture quality, clarity, and overall output.

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

What about batch exporting using FCP, QT to QT Custom, then using h.264 as the codec, then dropping those into DVDSP, would that cause 2 compressions to occur or would DVDSP not need to recompress the h24 .mov’s.?

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

From a time-line exporting to 8bit uncompressed, then into DVDSP, I noticed better motion in the encoding by DVDSP, but exporting selfcontained, then to DVDSP, i noticed a ton of interlacing??

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

Larry Jordan talk about not exporting using Compressor, but using QT, as a self-contained, and letting DVDSP do the encoding, but others say it’s no difference. I’m exporting EX-3 footage, and self-contained to DVDSP is better, than exporting through Compressor then?

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

Are the presets found in the actual QT player export options area, or can you attach a screenshot of where the presets are listed, is it in a drop-down window somewhere in QT, or in the QT conversion window…?

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

Would it be then safe to assume that an export out of QT Conversion using x264, would yield still a much better quality encode that from Episode, in terms of h.264 encoding, or is Episode using the QT (without permission) as an engine to encode that x.264 for you, I’m a little confused there. If you had the FLV plug-in to export out of FCP, or export a F4V out of FCP in some way, would the Episode’s quality be better?

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

Any Mac-based options?

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

So, is there a best method to encode to .F4V? Are there any companies out there that would be examples of this, with their video encoded to .F4V and up on their websites? Other than Jan Ozer’s comments on hardware and software, does anyone know of a really good hardware or software solution for encoding to .F4V? I’m open to trying anything.

Thanks,

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Tom Laughlin]

After hours of post reading this “QuickTime Error 0”, I found the solution by going through the time-line very carefully and coping and pasting portions of my film into another time-line and exporting out as ref QT’s till the error popped up, and I honed in on and isolated the clip that QT didn’t like to render, replaced it with dragging the same shot in, and re-rendering and BAM! 100% rendered and exported.

I found these 2 posts to help me in that direction:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1128297&tstart=0

https://dvcreators.net/discuss/showthread.php?t=19191

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel