Conforming HDV message

I am completing a project originated in HDV, shot at 23.98. Sequence setting is 1080p24. Did a Command-R and rendered the sequence to view with the client. Then I did an Option-R and the dialog box came up with Conforming HDV Video. I searched here in the forum and in the users manual and did not see this anywhere. Can someone tell me what FCP is doing when it Conforms HDV Video?
Many thanks!
Van

Native hdv is a long gop structure. Whenever you make an edit in hdv you are destroying the gop structure of that clip and every other clip in the timeline that follows it. On a fast machine, this is corrected enough for playback, but sooner or later the sequence has got to be conformed back to long gop structure from front to back. This can take a while.
This is why it is much preferable to convert hdv to one of the prores codecs. That way you have actual instead of virtual frames in your media. Everything works better with real frames.

Similar Messages

Hi, I can't figure out why I can't render on my timeline. I highlight the segment hit "Apple-R" and it gives me a weird message about "conforming HDV video...." and the bar goes as far as 60-66% and holds there forever. It never renders even partially.

Hi, I can't figure out why I can't render on my timeline. I highlight the segment hit "Apple-R" and it gives me a weird message about "conforming HDV video...." and the bar goes as far as 60-66% and holds there forever. It never renders even partially.

Yes, I know. I have been working with HDV for some time. I am wondering why it doesn't render when it needs to.. the red and bright-green lines are above, and I've set the render settings such that ANYTHING I highlight and hit apple-R will render. But its not rendering at all.

Conforming HDV Video

Hi All,
I have composed around 3 dvds from Final Cut pro over the last couple of months. I am having problem with rendering. Before it was not taking long, I must have changed something in the settings as now when rendering it is coming up with conforming hdv video... can anyone help how I can get back to rendering quicker?? thanks

plastique45 wrote:
100% wrong.
What you changed is the following:
Sequence>Render All> Full. Uncheck it and when you render, you'll no longer get that Conforming HDV Video message.
While DUCKY64 might have turned that setting on accidently, you do understand that this kind of guidance is of limited value for those who output to DVD, right?
As mentioned in the Final Cut Pro 6: Working With High Definition and Broadcast Formats manual, an HDV timeline must be conformed prior to output. That includes export to QT Movie, the most common way folks get HDV media to Compressor (or any other encoder) in order to create .m2v files.
Beside that, for all types of codecs, not just HDV, the (Dark Green) Full RT media must be rendered in order to be exported via the QT movie route. If you don't render it prior to export, of course, FCP performs the render during export. So, not a whole lot to be gained for folks making DVDs.
It wasn't fair to say that Andy was 100% wrong. And resurrecting what is, considering the traffic on this forum, essentially a dead thread to make that statement wasn't cool.

*** Turning the "conforming HDV video" render OFF

I had to print some HDV projects back to tape, so on the advice of another person here, changed some settings so that the "conforming HDV video" stage was done before deciding to print the sequence to tape.
I'm finished printing my projects to tape now, and when I'm not editing a new HDV project, each time I press option-R to render, it says "conforming HDV video". How do I turn this "off" so that it will just render out like it normally did in the past?
Thanks in advance..........

Hi, can you tell me how you got the printing to video to work. I´ve tried now for few days to output HD material from my project back to my tape. I have a Sony HVR Z1U Camcorder. The sequence plays well on my computer and my camcorder even starts to record but there is no picture transmitted to the tape.
Where is the problem?
Thanks in advance

Conforming HDV video takes ages!

i shot some footage in hd 50i on my sony Z1 captured it all seems great - did the editing all fine (its a 3 min sequence), but now when i render it within the FCP timeline it seems to taking ages to "conforming HDV video" is this normal?
I use a macpro 2x3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with graphics card

I hadn't seen that Michael so I appreciate the heads up.
This HD-Connect MP2 unit looks to be a far more cost effective solution than the previous contender... up to now, for bi-directional conversion, I think the Canopus ADVCHDM1 has been pretty much our only option, though I had conveniently overlooked that when making my last post !
consider my stance amended ... you only "have" to accept the conform if you don't have access to third party convertors ( and the necessary IO gear for your FCP workstation )

"Conforming HDV" instead of "Writing Video" while rendering anything

I am having a serious issue with FCP. I am getting the "Conforming HDV" dialog instead of "Writing Video" while rendering anything
Short Project shot @ 720p 30 with a JVC GY-HD100U
1) This gradually started happening more and more.
2) Whenever I try to render anything, even a small crossfade, FCP shows the "Conforming HDV" dialog and proceeds to trash my video. Pieces of the video are repeated or frames are dropped and shots become jerky.
Undo fixes the issue. Replacing the video with the original fixes the issue. But I connot RENDER ANYTHING!
What would you all suggest?
MBP C2D 15 - Dual 1.25 G4 MDD Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to HDV. I've never had much better luck than this. The way the GOP structure of the mpeg-2 HDV stream works, the I-frames in your media almost never match up with the default GOP structure of the sequence, and you must wait for it to conform everytime you even think about touching it. Changing the render settings might help. If you are still runnning FCP 4.5, you will be plagued with scrambled render files - even if you can get it to show the correct rendered material in the timeline, if you export or encode or output to tape, you'll wind up with different (wrong) renders in the resulting files.
You might consider batch exporting all your media to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC), an all I-frame codec that helps to get around some of the GOP structure issues that make HDV so impossible to work with. Also, more RAM, or a better video card will take some of the load off of the processor as it tries valiantly to decode the HDV stream. Upgrading FCP to the latest version will also help with some of the render-scrambling etc.
Hope this helps -
Max Average

Conforming HDV --twice?

I have an 80min HDV (720) project.
I thought it was all conformed -- I've been "rendering all" in pieces for the last two weeks.
When I hit "Print to video" It said "conforming" again. -- it took about an hour (not bad for 80min as it was already rendered) After an hour it took about 5 mins to render the audio.
After that was done, instead of going to the "Print" window - it's "conforming HDV video" again.
Looks like another hour. Why is this happening again??

In no way is this an "I told you so". It's just never as simple as it should be, which is why I recommended printing ASAP. I'm not sure about the second conformation, is there a preference or setup option (there may not be) that automatically conforms the video prior to printing? If so, disable it.
edit... I just saw your opening line which says your project is 720p. I believe Sony's HDV is only 1080i. With which camera did you shoot? Are you printing to a camera or a deck?

"Conforming HDV footage"

I have a 90 min HDV video documentary that i am finalizing.
I'm a bit concerned about putputting it as i have little experience outputting HDV. The one time i did do it, it was more involved than putputting DV.
The entire video is treatd with effects and is currently rendered (mostly).
i remember that when I outputted my first HDV project, although it was fully rendered, there was a step (another render?) called "conforming HDV" which took quite a while. With a 90 minute project I figured it could take a week.
The premiere is in a month, and I'm still working on the credits -- so it's not done.
FINALLY THE QUESTION: is there anything i can be doing now that can make the outputting phase faster?
Is there anything else i should know abotu outputting HDV??
thanks so much

New Discussions ReponsesThe new system for discussions asks that after you mark your question as Answered, you take the time to mark any posts that have aided you with the tag and he post that provided your answer with the tag. This not only gives points to the posters, but points anyonesearching for answers to similar problems to the proper posts.
If we use the forums properly they will work well...

*** Turning off "conforming HDV video" when renderring?

Based on a previous post, and in the interest of speeding up my print to video time, in the sequence menu in the nav bar in FCP I changed "something" that means that whenever I render my HDV video now, it says "conforming HDV video". This is now slowing down my editing time because I don't want to conform the video every time I render a clip. Any idea how to turn this "off" for the time being? Is this even possible?

When you select Sequence > Render All, that will Conform everything that gets rendered. If, instead, you first click to highlight the clips in the Timeline you want to render, and then select Sequence > Render Selection, FCP will only render, and will not conform.
However, this will mean that when you Print to Video, Final Cut will have to conform the entire sequence, which will take a very long time.
It's like the old Fram commercials - "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later." At some point, Final Cut will have to conform.

Temporal compression conforming HDV 1080i60 to 23.98fps

Footage was shot on Sony EX1. Then Sony's transfer tool was used to bring it into FCP. Before import, the file says it is 59.94i (23.98p).
In final cut it says 29.97 (basically the same).
The footage needs to be changed in 23.98 fps. In cinema tools, the clip analysis says HDV 1080i60 29.97 quality:normal with temporal (what is that)?
The button to conform is grey and not active. I have tried batch conform and that leads to cinema tools creating a new source folder for "skipped clips" due to "temporal compression"
What is up?

CT doesn't convert 60i to 24p.
CT doesn't work with native HDV or MPEG2 footage.
Solution, http://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm my conversion software which does a great 60i to 24p conversion even on HDV.
Graeme

Want to conform HDV clips edited on SP timeline back to HDV timeline

I took my HDV footage and edited it on a SP (dv-ntsc) timeline. It seems to have automatically letterboxed the footage so it looks normal. Now I'm done editing in SP and would like a matching HDV (1080i) version of all my edit decisions. How do I get my EDL (Edit Decision List) to conform the original HDV footage? Or have a made a terrible mistake and can't go back to HDV. I really don't want to edit it again in HDV! Help

Make sure your new HDV sequence matches the aspect ratio of the original footage (ie. Anamorphic sequence for anamorphic footage).
Select all the clips in the timeline.
Right-click.
Remove Attributes.
Check Distort.
Uncheck all others.
You should now see the footage correctly on your monitor.

Conforming HDV from SD FCP Project

Hi there
Having a problem today using a CMX 3600 EDL exported from a DV Pal project to conform footage at its original HDV res.
Basically the clips begin capturing, but don't stop at the out point.
The same EDL works fine at SD.
Have also tried using Media Manager to create an offline project and recapturing that way, but have the same problem.
Using a Sony Z1 as a deck - am I using the wrong device control settings or something?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
G5

Your FCP sequence settings need to match the output
from motion. Click on the playhead in FCP then press
(apple+0)thats a zero. The match your sequence
settings.
This is most likely due to the software update.
Like I said, this process of "down-resing" from an HDV project to an SD project was working flawlessly before I updated the software. FCP, to my knowledge, can take an HDV project from Motion and conform it into whatever the sequence settings are. As long as it's the correct aspect ratio which in this case is 16:9 and the project is a higher resolution, of course.
My temporary solution was to export from Motion with Animation compression with the current output settings. This will give it a 4:3 aspect ratio. Then, open the movie and in the properties check off "preserve aspect ratio" and change the scaled size from 1440 x 1080 to 1920 x 1080. This will make it 16:9. Import into FCP and "viola"!
It's just stressful to find out that a process that was working doesn't work anymore.

Conforming hdv to tape errors

hi any help is appreciated
finished my hdv edit its 36minutes long
stunned by how great the hdv quality is ,
but when print to video ,it takes say 2 hours then it starts repeating itself ,i am now trying the copy and paste the timeline into a new sequence .
it was working last night but i pressed the space bar and stopped it ,and been trying ever since and getting more frustrated.
cheers
dg5dual2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Sounds normal actually. HDV is an MPEG compression, so it has to rebuild the "GOP" (Group of Pictures) structure of the edited piece before it can lay it back to tape. I'm afraid it's a long process...
Jerry

Print to Video Error Message

I have an HDV sequence that I am attempting to master out to tape using the JVC BR-HD50 deck. I select my sequence and go to file--> Print to Video..
It goes through its "Conforming HDV" windows and then pops up with the following error message:
File Error: The specified file is open and in use by this or another application
My Mac Pro is the only machine that has this file currently open and only FCP is open. I have tried restarting, trashing my FCP preferences but to no avail. Any ideas?
Ryan

It is a completely unedited sequence. Since I shot everything direct to disk I wanted to make a backup copy on tape should something go wrong with my files.
Currently I have no edit points, no filters applied. I just laid the media on the timeline and asked it to print out to video. That's where I ran into that error message.
Ryan

Can FCP Black and Code HDV tapes?

(Reposted from the FCP Express forum)
I'm running FCP Studio 5.0.4.
I'm trying to stripe some HDV tapes for an upcoming shoot. I've set up a project using the 1080i60 Easy Setup. I have my Sony FX-1 set to HDV record mode and HDV input. When I go to Edit to Tape and hit the Black and Code icon, a dialogue box pops up giving me a dropdown menu from which I can choose the 1080i60 setting.
After the warning that I'm about to erase the tape with black and timecode, I hit OK and a status bar pops up saying it's 'Conforming HDV Video.'
All that is what I'd expect, but the estimated time for it to do this is 10 hours! I let it run for about 15 minutes just to see if that would change, but it looks as though it really would be that long. The status bar counted up to 1% complete during that time. That seems way too long to wait to stripe a tape.
I also tested doing this with Print to Video. I created an hour long sequence and filled it with slug. The same message popped up...only the estimated time was now 3 hours. Better...but not reasonable just to stripe a tape.
Any thoughts?
Other than the inevitable argument over striping tapes, I mean? : )

Its always been about a 50/50 chance of the previous footage cutting through frames of the new video when I have done this, so I never overwrite. Would overwriting black video be a safer bet?
And so the argument begins... Black is previous video whether it comes from a deck via edit system or a capped camera... either way is the same, you are laying down something that you are going to erase!!!!! If you have a break between takes, something is going to bleed through. The only reason you need a stripped tape is for insert editing.
That's why the recommendation is to not bother blacking tapes for shooting. Instead, take the time to ensure that you follow proper shooting practices that will avoid time code breaks.
As for re-using tapes... (that is essentially what you do when you black a tape before use.) Tape is cheap, why risk your money and rep by re-using tape.
rh

Conforming HDV message

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for