[William Carr]

Hello, Ray. Interesting issue!

Considering what you were told about a direct export to Compressor from FCP, would I even want to render anything in my timeline in the first place? If Compressor will do a better job for the target format?

And also, would a direct export of my unrendered (except for the audio) timeline to Compressor be the same as first exporting a reference movie, and bringing that into Compressor?

Anyone know for sure?

[William Carr]

Stories! Time for me to learn Stories.

Thanks Noah…

[William Carr]

Thanks, gentlemen!

The only renders I lose by stringing the clips are the audio mixdowns of each timeline. No biggie because the mixdown of the string takes mere minutes.

Onward…!

[William Carr]

Thanks, all!

[William Carr]

Understood.

I will export the native timeline as a self-contained same-settings movie, then bring it to Compressor and spec it to shape.

One last thought: I am assuming the ProRes choice should be the “original” 422.
With HQ I don’t think I would see a quality difference, plus would not the higher bitrate make it more of a challenge for their unknown Mac/projection set-up to play happily?

[William Carr]

Thank you everybody!

Jeremy: it was shot on P2, L&T into FC from hard drive backups. What difference does it make, so I can learn to suggest better workflows next time?

Arnie: usually I export same settings movie, them Compressor. I will use the Compressor tabs as suggested.

Rafael: that’s right, I realize it is upscaling! Next time I will tell them to shot 1080. I will use the tabs in Compressor to ensure best results.

[William Carr]

Hi Rafael, sorry for late reply.

I have to update my DW disk to the latest for Snow Leopard, which I will do forthwith!

Meanwhile, DRW did indeed solve my problem with his other suggestions.

Thank you…

[William Carr]

I trashed prefs and repaired permissions and upon returning to the project I found it to play back perfectly normally. It was the basic and fundamental maintenance step skipped that tripped me up and in the heat of urgency mystified me.

Let this be a lesson to me and all other pretenders to the editor’s seat.

Thank you, DRW!

And thank you by the way for telling me back in the Spring to take the plunge for a shiny new system in the first place, and never look back.

[William Carr]

Right on all counts. WIll report back. Just remembered I hadn’t trashed Prefs since updating to 7.0.1.

Meanwhile, would a playback card such as a Matrox assume the processing burden of playback from the Mac? What I mean is, should that kind of solution provide for “smooth” playback as well as more accurate image quality/color?

[William Carr]

Thanks for response!

It is set to Safe RT, full frame rate, dynamic quality.

Tried switching to dynamic frame rate just now, same issue. Switched back.
Then tried switching to high quality, same issue.