export/compression question
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VaricamLife
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More info please
More info please
We need a little more information than that...
What version of FCP and Compressor are you running?
What is the purpose of the export? Streaming video for the web? MPEG-2 for authoring DVD's in DVD Studio Pro? Something else all together?
If you're going for DVD Studio Pro, then simply click on the timeline and the go File | Export | Using Compressor. Once compressor opens up, I think you'll do quite well just using its presets. Use the DVD Best Quality ones (you have to decide whether you need the 4:3 or 16:9 and what time length you need).
cheers.
More info please
We need a little more information than that...
What version of FCP and Compressor are you running?
What is the purpose of the export? Streaming video for the web? MPEG-2 for authoring DVD's in DVD Studio Pro? Something else all together?
If you're going for DVD Studio Pro, then simply click on the timeline and the go File | Export | Using Compressor. Once compressor opens up, I think you'll do quite well just using its presets. Use the DVD Best Quality ones (you have to decide whether you need the 4:3 or 16:9 and what time length you need).
cheers.
Ming
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File >export>quicktimemacs said:
self contained checked is self explanatory
self contained unchecked means it only references existing elements in your timeline
current settings will use your current timeline settings uncompressed.
Read this page for good info, it's for prepping to go to DVD but it contains the info you're asking for:
http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_export_files.html
VaricamLife
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Need better than DV25 for text if you are going to archive w/ MOV
Need better than DV25 for text if you are going to archive w/ MOV
If your footage is all DV25 and you export with a DV25 sequence or using DV25 compression then you won't notice a difference because its all the same universe.
You generated the text though. It wasn't created in DV25 universe. So yes, when you export out, in either way, you compress the text to the DV25 codec so yes it won't look as crisp anymore, when viewed on a computer. If you're archiving a digital copy then you will want to set your sequence settings to a better compressor and render out in that so anything non-DV on the timeline is better preserved (using an 8 or 10 bit uncompressed should do you fine).
However, when sent out to a broadcast monitor it may look okay. Remember that your computer and a proper broadcast monitor will make things look entirely different. If you ever really want to know how your stuff is looking go by a calibrated broadcast monitor. Your computer doesn't really tell you much beyond things like filesize, data rate, frame rate, timecode, and a rough estimation of what the picture looks like (okay maybe that's a bit extreme but you get the point).
cheers.
Need better than DV25 for text if you are going to archive w/ MOV
If your footage is all DV25 and you export with a DV25 sequence or using DV25 compression then you won't notice a difference because its all the same universe.
You generated the text though. It wasn't created in DV25 universe. So yes, when you export out, in either way, you compress the text to the DV25 codec so yes it won't look as crisp anymore, when viewed on a computer. If you're archiving a digital copy then you will want to set your sequence settings to a better compressor and render out in that so anything non-DV on the timeline is better preserved (using an 8 or 10 bit uncompressed should do you fine).
However, when sent out to a broadcast monitor it may look okay. Remember that your computer and a proper broadcast monitor will make things look entirely different. If you ever really want to know how your stuff is looking go by a calibrated broadcast monitor. Your computer doesn't really tell you much beyond things like filesize, data rate, frame rate, timecode, and a rough estimation of what the picture looks like (okay maybe that's a bit extreme but you get the point).
cheers.