William Carr
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Confirm please that your original sequence is fully rendered.
Also, are you viewing the end result in Quicktime 7? If so try viewing it in the newer Quicktime X, or in MPEG Streamclip. Or on an iDevice.
Quicktime 7 has become broken when trying to show mp4/h264 since Mountain Lion (for me, anyway).And, try just using the standard preset and not worrying about frame controls. Apple’s own presets for its own devices are really quite OK, quality-wise.
Next idea is to make a regular ProRes (not Q) and work with that. The quality issues are simply not as critical as you are defining them since your end goal is iDevices and your presets are Apple.
Finally, try a 3rd party conversion app if all else fails.
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Trial version of ClipWrap: cannot change scaling on incoming clips.
Aunsoft MTS Converter: can change scaling, and can rename clips in the batch list.
This worked great, just a single nicely paced pass from the original mts clips to downscaled 720 ProRes that placed into an existing sequence in the project without any rendering needed, alongside FCP-Compressor ingested clips.So FYI to anybody interested, this seems to be my solution.
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How about ClipWrap?
Anybody use this app for bringing mts into FCP?
Will it downscale during its conversion process?
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Among who is this consensus? Using GH2 systems for 2 years and never had issues (if shot well).
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You may have fixed the problem by now, but if not try trashing the Audio Renders at Tools>Render Manager, then copy and paste the entire edit into a fresh sequence. If still problems, select all the audio on the sequence and do a Sequence>Render Only>Mixdown.
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That was a massive render! From a “full HD” dense HQ intraframe file to a compressed GOP file. Nothing is wrong with that render duration. One improvement might be to have one drive writing to another, that’s what I do.
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Thanks, Bouke… I’ve “pasted” clips together in QT Pro, but that may or may not work with a gargantuan clip build; I can try it using a long movie file and see. Probably better to figure on seamlessly playing multiple clips at the exhibition.
But now I’m curious– what Mac app do you recommend to append segments into a new movie file?
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Thanks, Chris, that’s a very helpful experience, and it’s the sensible method to break the native clip up into segments, as Bouke also suggested, and import them rather than use Log & Transfer. If this project moves forward, that’s what I’ll do.
That also made me realize I could edit the whole thing in segments as well, manageable chunks each as long as a feature film. Then the issue would be how to play them consecutively– seamlessly–at the exhibition. That playback issue will be much easier to address than these very weighty clip ingest and edit challenges.
Bouke– I think you meant that FCP has a clip length limit, not a sequence length limit of 2 hours (or else many feature films would be practically un-editable with FCP). I’ve had long sequences before, just never crazy-long as this project might need.
And as far as the costs and fees and such, this particular project is an art exhibition, which I mentioned in the linked original post in DSLR Video but not here, sorry. 90% of art projects are poorly funded and have many volunteers and supporters like me who depend on their commercial jobs to pay the bills. So you’re right it would be a “wrong choice” if a regular job, but in this case it’s for art’s sake!
Finally, just a note about my “cheap” Panasonic GH1 and GH2 cameras– for two years they’ve been the foundation of a very happy body of documentary work, the clients of which don’t know or care what I paid for them. Each kit was almost 1/10 the original cost of my HVX-200 and Firestore kit which they replaced– and now I get depth of field!
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With your completed sequence, you need to render not just Audio tracks but choose “Mixdown” as a very last step. If you don’t there might be artifacts of the audio editing and level work remaining from past actions that were not properly discarded.