6pm...

[Matthew B. Moore]

It's now rounding 6pm. We've finished all the effects and they are rendering. The post-sound is going through a cleaning and we are adding additional sounds based on the need. It looks like we will start uploading around 9 or 10pm.

Are we behind? I get the feeling we will be one of the last across the line?

Any other situations out there?

[JimtheJib]

no i just finished it but i won't be able to upload it until tomorrow. we are having some problems with the compression (don't really know how lol)

[Matthew B. Moore]

What's the problem? Maybe one of the guys here can help.

[JimtheJib]

well ive never done it before. and i accidentally captured the at 30 fps in FCP... basically im lost. also im working on someone elses mac but usually im a pc person. i guess i just need to find a really clear tutorial on how to encode to mpeg 2 at 24fps with embedded audio, figure out how to crop the letterbox to actually widescreen and just do it i guess. ive gotten this far and i don't want to mess it up now.

any advice on a really good tutorial?
thanks

[Slice]

I'm done, and boy it feels good! Good luck guys.

[Brandon Rice]

It does feel good, doesn't it :)

[Slice]

Woot!

[Matthew B. Moore]

well ive never done it before. and i accidentally captured the at 30 fps in FCP... basically im lost. also im working on someone elses mac but usually im a pc person. i guess i just need to find a really clear tutorial on how to encode to mpeg 2 at 24fps with embedded audio, figure out how to crop the letterbox to actually widescreen and just do it i guess. ive gotten this far and i don't want to mess it up now.

any advice on a really good tutorial?
thanks
do you have "compressor"?

[JimtheJib]

yes the mac im using does....

[Matthew B. Moore]

yes the mac im using does....
Michael will help you

[spidey]

ok i'm gonna try and do a rough tutorial on how to get this thing together. the things you will need are: your finished movie, compressor and bitvice helper, to get bit vice helper search google for it, its free.

with your movie on your timeline de-interlace it, render it and then select file>export>using compressor..
when compressor opens there will be a few windows, the bottom, your batch you will see "source media" and click on setting drop down menu and select dvd best quality 90 minutes 16:9>mpeg-2 6.9....
the top right window in compressor is your inspector. change frame rate to 23.98. video format ntsc and click on the quality tab. i put my max at 8.9 and average at 7.5.
you can change your gop from 12 to 7 if you'd like, it will help if there is a lot of fast motion.
in extras i just noticed the mulitplex mpeg1/layer2 audio, not sure if that will mux the audio with it, i'll give it a try afterwards.
the next thing you will do is crop the image. in the preview window you will see red box, right side is your video source, left side is what your destined file will be like.
when you are ready to export it click on destination source and choose where you want to save it.
click submit. it'll do its thing. mine is saying like 21 minutes but its going down a lot faster than that(dual 2.0 g5 w/2.5gb ram)

now i am gonna wait cause i chose that extra mulitplex audio deal and i'm gonna see what that does. but this gets you to a good part of where you need to be.

if you have that bitvicehelper program open that puppy up. click on start, find your m2v file, then find your audio file(which you will export from your fcp timeline, standard aiff) then you choose your destination and it does its thing. when i tested it two time after it did its thing my computer started the bing'n like someone were sitting on the keyboard, i close the two windows that opened from encoding the muxing and it stopped, then i had my mpeg file in my chosen destination.

hope this helps.

[manglerBMX]

and that last post was from me, not spidey, his damn name wont stay signed off of my computer.

[manglerBMX]

ok so dont check the multiplex audio deal in extras, it made some wierd file that nothing would open.

[manglerBMX]

oh and set max bitrate at 8, not 8.9 or whatever i said previously

[JimtheJib]

thanks

[EditPhish]

Mangler: it may sound like a dumb question, but you can compress a film edited on a 29.97 timeline to 23.98 without problems?

[TheMacB]

man, too bad you guys don't have vegas...

[Matthew B. Moore]

We're done! Going home! Gonna eat! Word is bond!

[manglerBMX]

editphish: i hope its not too late, but yes you can. our film was done in 24p, not 24pa. so our timeline was 29.97, but i exported out of compressor at 23.98, but you have to make sure you de-interlace your movie first. you should be good to go. hope my rough tutorial helped.