Export workflow with Compressor or QT?

I finally make the move to Studio Pro5 and FCP5, love the FCP and now have a confusing problem with a movie that I want to export with Chapters to DVDSP5.
Choices:
1. Export to QT, save as (not conversion), self contained from FCP with chapters,
only to import it into DVDSP5 for chapters and so I can then compress the
movie?
2. Export Compressor conversion for DVDSP5 but, I dont see my chapters from
FCP timeline.
(This would be ok if my chapters from FCP5 showed up)
What happened to the direct QT to mpeg2 with chapters, Quick and direct.
I guess im trying to find out from someone the workflow from exporting a movie from FCP5 with chapters into DVDSP5.
It seems the manuals are not 100% accurate or clear on this process.

For me, I simply export my sequence using Export QuickTime Movie... leave it at Current Settings..., make it self contained (if I have the space), and bring that file into DVDSP. I let DVDSP handle the compression...
The only time I mess with Compressor is to play with frame rate conversions, and to do H.264 compressions for the web...
Patrick

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Greetings,
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OR, should I try to get rid of the interlacing in Compressor? As I said, when I tried this initially, the "combing" got worse.
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Thanks for your help. It is currently playing on the above equipment at the gallery and looks terrible so I need to fix asap.
Amy

Michael,
I just wanted to sum up what I ended up doing, for others folowing the post:
So I did three tests, and I will post settings and results below. Setting the de-interlace to "progressive" did do the trick, the "combing" effect went away.
The settings above, with H.264 codec, and leaving size/frame rate etc. as same as source, gave the best results visually in picture. Playback was good, I saw one or two tiny "skips" like a little stutter, barely noticeable. Quality was set to "best." This was only a 3-miute clip of the 10 minute piece, and render times were over 11 hours. So when I do the whole piece I'm wondering if I should adjust any of the settings. I'd like to get just as good of results but with less render time. Any ideas?
Thank you again,
Amy

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Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
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Stream 2:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 3:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 4:
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Codec: (DV Video (dvc)
Resolution: 720 x 480
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Decoded Format: Planar 4:1:1 YUV
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I ended up just using iMovie to capture video from the camera. The clips now play in stereo in QuickTime perfectly.
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Motion- Exporting with Compressor

I'm new to Final Cut Studio, and I tried to export a movie the other day, I did it with Compressor, and in the final version, I saw that in random places, it dropped a lot of my effects. Is there a reason that this happened? It was fine when i viewed it it Compressor.

The answer is Compressor and Motion are both buggy software applications and have been since day one so instead of using the features the applications supposedly feature, we have learned to not use certain features for fear of the ceiling falling in on us in the middle of a project.
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Proper export settings for Compressor 4 from FCPX?

Hello all,
First, system specs (Mac Pro):
Processor 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 12 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b)
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I'm slowly transitioning over from FCP7 to X. I like a lot about FCPX, it's lacking in some areas, but worth the move now after the updates (and hopefully more to come). Anyway, I put together a 24 minute project with a few layers of text and a filter or two in Final Cut Pro X. Now, in FCP 7, I'd simply click the 'create DVD' button in the 'Share' menu, send it to Compressor 3, and Compressor 3 would FLY on this machine. And I'm talking a full blown 2 hour wedding video with tons of effects and graphics filters would take about 3-4 hours to export to a DVD file. About the only thing I would change in Compressor 3 from any default settings is the destination folder for the exported files. Any other format would fly too (Bluray, web video files, etc.). LIFE WAS GRAND!
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I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out what the issue is... Compressor 4 should have handled a 24 minute project in under an hour, not nine hours. Any ideas?
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Hey Russ,
I tested your workflow on a 30 second commercial I recently did and the QT movie file expoted very nicely in about 15 seconds. Then, in Compressor 4, I exported it to a DVD file (after adding a few phoney chapter markers), and that process took about 45 seconds. So I'm generally pleased with those results. The combined process sounds like it'll take about twice the length (maybe a tad more) of the length of the source video file I'm exporting, so I'm happy with those results. That's about the same time I experienced with FC7 and C3 when used in tandem, with the one less step of exporting to a QT movie file first.
But, I like the idea of using a QT master file anyway. It's funny how everyone kind of creates their own workflow and process when it comes to things like this!
Anyway, I'm not sure if there's an answer for my original issue... sounds like it's something Apple will eventually address as they continue to refine FCX and C4. But in the meantime, your workaround/workflow sounds like it'll allow me to continue to experiment and learn FCX more this year, before hopefully converting over to it completely next year (crossed-fingers Apple works out most of the remaining kinks by then!). And for that, I greatly appreciate the time you took to help!
Happy Easter or Passover or Sunday if you're neutral... lol.
Cheers,
Matt

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I have a cluster set up to render with Compressor and I am having troubles with my remote machines.
Whenever Ind the batch out, a window will pop up on the remote machines asking to reconnect the media it is about to compress. All of the media is located on a secondary hard drive on our master computer. The only clip that is asks to reconnect is a Render file but when I go to reconnect said file, I get the following error:
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There's even a Qmaster forum!
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=954
Lot of good it will do you.
Qmaster totally blows, ask anyone on that forum.
The problem is fundamental. It's far too complicated to be useful. As an Apple pro app that has been around for several years, it should seamlessly and painlessly integrate with eveything. Instead, it takes paitence and lots of hidden or undocumented experimentation.
There are two or three folks on the Qmaster forum who HAVE THE FIRE and who BELIEVE! Read everything posted by jesusali and fitography before you start posting the same questions those poor guys have been dealing with for months.
So I am getting the same network error that a lot of people in the forum have been posting. Unfortunately, I havent read a solution that works.< </div>
I can NOT get them to show up as a cluster.
I see them in the list in QAdmin, but can't do anything with them.<
<div class="jive-quote">Hello, I've got a cluster of about 20 machines set up, and when I submit a job from compressor, I can look at all the parts being worked on through the batch monitor. Though I see it being broken into many small chunks, only three are being processed at once, and the others just say "Processing:" with nothing after it, or just "Waiting."< </div>
THe problems start when I'm sending the batch. First I got the "ContentAgnet server not found", and by reading in this discussion I fixed this. Now it sends the Batch, but after 2-3 seconds it fails. Why?< </div>
"Qmasteris a cruel joke.
If you visit the Qmaster forum (and post there instead of here because no one here uses Qmaster who doesn't already visit the Qmaster forum and that would be absolutely no one because it's useless), you will see Qmaster has never worked. Not for anyone. Not ever. It's a completely bogus application; unintuitive, impossible to setup, impossible to debug, and fundamentally useless. Demand a refund.
bogiesan " < (Imagine THAT!)
<div class="jive-quote">Qmaster is not bogus at all. It totally rocks. It could be a billion times better, but it still rules if you've got the computers available.
Now Seth, the important difference is in sending the Batch from FCP or directly from Compressor. Sending from FCP for the FIRST video export is pretty bogus in that you have to have a different install of FCP on EACH client computer and that each client must mount the source files that the FCP file uses.But forget about that for a minute. Where Qmaster starts to work well is in REPURPOSING and recompressing that FIRST exported file.Our workflow was to always export a DV NTSC version of our movie from FCP using a single Dual Processor G5. And then to use Qmaster and Compressor to repurpose that file into multiple other formats.<
bogiesan

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i've had the same thing happen occasionally.
are you using the "export with compressor" option or are dragging your motion project files directly into compressor? i've experienced different performance using one method or the other.
nonetheless, i always export using compressor. it's frustrating however, as adding motion files to compressor always takes a few moments. for example, if i drag a handful of motion files into compressor (let's say 10 files for the sake of argument), the app displays the beachball for up to a minute or so before the files appear in the batch list. then, each time i select an individual file in that batch window, the app stalls again for 20-30 seconds.
i always save the batch once i've gotten the settings correct, exactly for the issue you describe. not often, but occasionally, i'll submit the batch and the batch monitor will display no progress. in which case i usually restart. i figure that qmasterd and compressord have screwed up and restart to get them back up. after restart, i open the saved compressor batch and submit again.
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for example, in AE, if i'm making chyrons i can keep everything in the same project, and pre-comp my backgrounds. if the client requests a background change, just change the backgound comp and eveything updates. if there are other changes, everything is right there and can be updated relatively easily. send all the chyron comps to the render queue and let it go, no problems.
with Motion, i already have many project files, one per chyron. so, at the very least, i'm going to have to open each project individually to make the changes. then export each individually. not efficient. (then take in to account my Multiple Open Document Woes, and it's a mess)
i'm aware of a third-party solution for automating this process, but it would really be nice for Motion to do this itself, rather than have an external app perform some XML hackery.
so, anyway, i use Compressor for exporting Motion rojects almost exclusively, but it's not without headaches. this is barely acceptable in a production environment.
-bt

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I have a quicktime movie, exported from FCP which is 1280X800. I need to create an MPG2 also at 1280X800.
How do I do this?
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A program Stream.
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