William Carr
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You found the .mov file FCP made, but could you open and play it in Quicktime? If not it may be corrupt.
Your media (but not your project file) should be on the external drive, but is there enough space on your external hard drive to export the movie? That external drive should not be more than 80percent full.
Apart from the above issues, the other common remedies are trashing your FCP preferences and trashing all your timeline’s renders and re-rendering them.
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“I talked to someone on the Apple helpline. He suggested I try making QT movie first and then importing into the compressor. I had the same FCP shutdown when I tried to do that…. He suggested I delete my render files and then re-render. I am now doing that..”
–Apple was right.
1) Render your timeline fully, video and audio.
2) In the browser window, select your timeline and export it to your external drive, “Current Settings” choice.
2) Quit FCP. You don’t need it to make the mpeg now.
3) Launch Compressor.
5) Bring that Quicktime into Compressor.
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Depending how small the “small amount” is, you can skip the cabling do what we do: simply Log and Transfer the AVCHD which FCP transcodes as ProRes or AIC. We choose ProRes and include our small amount of (Panasonic SD9) AVCHD inserts and b-roll within our main DVCPROHD timeline, where clips appear as a preview render without slowing anything down. As with all timelines, fully render before delivering to wherever it’s going.
Only issue may be whether your flavor of AVCHD can be transferred straight in without hitches.
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Try using Capture Now and manually create 3 or 4 independent shorter clips instead of trying to capture such a large file.
Your outpoints should overlap the next clip’s inpoint; that way you can, if needed, use whichever moment you choose to start/stop each capture as a smooth edit.
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We too use an SD9 for a crash-cam, extreme angle inserts, and emergency stuff if the HVX is otherwise engaged. It’s super-compact and easy to make a kit with multiple batteries and SD cards.
Quality is no match to the 200, but in good lighting conditions the image is very good. And the clips are 1920 wide so you have some room to play on a 720 timeline. And it’s 24p, hard to find in a tapeless consumer HD. And one more thing, it can record pseudo-surround sound, good for recording ambient / atmospheric sound.
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That’s exactly the article I read prior to posting, it’s a perfect step-by-step and what I will use to make it happen. It’s just that I didn’t fully grasp the principle of the thing, until you explained.
Thank you!
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Well, that’s half the battle! Thank you for the expertise.
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I’ve had VHS captured by transfer houses and frankly by the time I got it into my system it looked no better than the economic method: from my VHS s-video and analog audio out to my DVCAM deck s-video and analog audio in, then– capture now through firewire to Final Cut or simply make a DVCAM dub of each VHS tape.
S-video isn’t component but at this level I can’t tell the difference, especially by the time it ends up on DVD.
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YouTube prefers 640×480 and I use a 1200-1400 data rate, and upload is seldom longer for me than if I was upoloading via ftp to my hosted domain website. The “high quality” playback option does what it says, relative to the quality you see as standard.
Mortimer says in both cases the results look “pretty good”. For a free mass market service where you can maintain your own channel of content, YT is what it is.
Major producers distribute music videos and advertising / promotion on YT. When pros post on YT their potential customers / audience is not looking for “quality” above and beyond the highest quality they’re used to seeing on YouTube– they are looking at content.
If you want higher quality to show off your image expertise as well as your content, web site hosting is very CHEAP. You can easily place quite beautiful h264 Quicktimes on a web page of your own.
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Try a higher bit rate than 800, like 1500 or even 2000, and at 640×480. YouTube accepts up to 100MB for direct uploads. Since you shot in a low resolution you need as much quality in the encode as you can get.