Sequence compression setting / Quicktime Export

Is there any advantage to changing the sequence compression setting to "None" and re-rendering before exporting a sequence using DVCAM footage captured from a DSR30 via FireWire? My normal compression setting is DV/DVCPRO.
How about leaving the sequence settings at DV/DVCPRO and changing the Quicktime export setting from "current settings" to "uncompressed 10 bit" or 8 bit?
I'm still getting artifacting when compressing to MPEG2, even with compression markers at transitions and encoding at 2-pass VBR and burning the DVD at 1x.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I decided to check out the Compressor discussion group - full of near suicides like me bemoaning the gross infusion of MPEG2 artifacting after upgrading to Compressor 2.
Appparently, popular opinion says the VBR feature is faulty and Apple is waiting until mutiny ensues before addressing the problem.
So I have encoded at 1-pass, 7.2 bitrate, best motion estimator, segmenting OFF, using Compressor, as suggested by some kind soul in the group, and then importing into DVDSP.
I then burned the DVD and viewed it on my bigass TV.
NO ARTIFACTING! Plus compressor took SIX minutes to MPEG2 the 40-minute FCP movie. And, yes you can see in the Compressor preview window that FCP has inserted compression markers at all edit points.
So by selecting settings for what Apple terms lower quality output, I get higher quality output in a fraction of the compression time!
I am fearful Apple is hiring enemy combatant programmers, lowering the morale of editors worldwide by making their work look like poo.

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How to set QuickTime export setting to 1080p as default? Thank you! ;-)

HI there,
I was wondering how to set the export settings to 1080p when exporting a video (after trimming for instance)...
It is set to "Movie" by default, I'm not to sure what resolution or data rate "Movie" format is (identical to original file)... since according to apple the other export options are:
Thanks.

Cool, so would it be the same if I save the file as "Movie" or "1080p" once I've trimmed the original file?
No, the 1080p option would re-compress the file as a 1080p H.264/AAC file. This means the compression format may be chaged from its original compression format and that the quality MAY be reduced due to the process of recompression. Basically, it all depends on what the original compression format, settings, and quality were like to begin with. If the original data was in a low compression editing format, then recompressing the data to H.264/AAC should produce a much smaller file with little or no loss in visual quality while recompressing a high compression format may produce little or now change in the file size but noticeably reduce the visual quality. Since "quality" is a highly subjective term, you should really be running your own tests to see which output you prefer rather than asking for opinions from others here.
Also, my question was if I could change the default export settings:
Depends on what you mean by "change" the default settings. The Apple H.264 presets are context adaptive in nature. They are, within certain limits, self-adjusting depending on the video content being transcoded and the specific preset selected. For instance, small target dispay dimensions will produce lower average data rates which means the final file will be smaller but you cannot manually change the frame rate, set key frame frequency, set a/v data rate limits, create custom anamorphic encodes, manually set the profile/level combination, set the entropy mode, etc.

Proper compression for Quicktime Export

I have FCP 5. I'm currently trying to export a 90 minute project to Quicktime to burn a DVD in IDVD. I am using a dual 1gig G4 with a Lacie 250gig hard drive, that currently has 165 gig available. I am using 65 gig for the project. I initially chose the export quicktime conversion command and chose NONE for compression settings. Timeline stated it would take five hours to complete transfer. With 1 hour left it crashed stating "General Error". Tried this twice over the last two days. FCP manual says to use Quicktime Movie command and current settings. Trying this, but timeline states 11 hours for conversion! Is this right? Is G4 processors too slow for FCP5? Please help!
ed

If you completely render your timeline and do an audio mixdown before doing the export, the export should be faster. Seems to me that I've read quite a few posts about trouble with exports if the render hasn't been done first.
Although I've never had any luck with it, you can also export a non-self contained QT for use in iDVD. It should export much faster as it simply creates a file that "references" the existing clips in the timeline. Might be worth a try.
rh

What's the best compression setting for exporting video to DVD?

My QT self contained file from FCP is 13 GB (1:02 min long) when I use DV NTSC while exporting. When iDVD finished encoding it, it went down to 3.4 GB (that includes video files in my iDVD menus).
*Since the DVD media is 4.7 GB can I make better quality DVD by lessening compression while exporting from FCP?*
I don't think there is a way to tweak compression in iDVD. And my second question:
*Is "self contained" file better quality than just a reference file?*
*I would like to make the best possible quality DVD and am looking for some tips on what settings would help me achieve it.*

Hi Joby,
Compressor is what you need.
Import your file, choose DVD best quality 90 minutes from the settings tab (lower left window in Compressor). This will allow your movie to be converted as MPEG 2 and ac3 dolby stereo (best compression for DVD audio).
The inspector window (lower right window) will allow you to decide/arrange settings as you like.
If you are not sure about best bit rate choice use the [Bit Budget|http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/bitbudget.html]
As you can see the inspector window offers a range of customizable settings if you are not familiar with those the manual (main menu>help>user manual) will answer all your questions. Simply type a word or definition in the search area and most likely the manual will provide the info you seek.
Self contained means that you create a file with exact copies from your original frames and edit on the timeline, a self-contained file becomes independent from your timeline. A reference movie as the definition says totally refers to your FCP project and wouldn't work on a different machine without referenced media files.
There is no difference in quality between the two QTmovie options.
Hope that helps
G.
PS. Extra info about Compressor and h the best way to create your DVD [here|http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/fcp_homepageindex.html#dvd]

Setting QuickTime export options

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Director/11.5/UsingScripting/WScf09ce35f85d76b4-4fdb6b3c11d558 55946-7eaf.html

When exporting to Quick Time I get an error message: error user parameters list. How do I fix this? I am not using the hard drive, not a portable, and have scanned my computer.

Is QuickTime support Mp4 file with Multiple SPS(Sequence Paramter Set) ?

Hello EveryOne.
I am in much trouble... plz help me. Thanks
I have a Mp4 file with Multiple SPS(Sequence Parameter Set) and PPS(Picture Parameter Set.
When i play into latest QuickTime then only Audio come. Blank White screen come in case of Video..Means no Video..
i want to ask :
Is QuickTime support Multiple SPS Mp4 file ?
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You didn't answer probably the most important question: whether you're using hardware or software Mercury Playback Engine (MPE). However, since you've set Maximum Render Quality on, it's largely irrelevant.
When you're using hardware MPE or have the MRQ flag set for your export, rendering is performed with linear color. Linear color processing affects how color channels and alpha channels are composited--anything less than 100% opacity is subject to linear color processing. Check out this article for more information on linear color/linear light: Linear Light - Artbeats
Since it sounds like you're seeing the results you expect in the Program Monitor, but not export, I'll wager you're not using hardware MPE. Only by disabling the Maximum Render Quality flag on export will you be able to get results that match what you see in the Program Monitor (within reason, of course). The only way you could see the effects of linear color within Premiere would be to either use a qualified GPU that enables hardware MPE, or go into your Sequence Settings and check the "Maximum Render Quality" option and then render previews.
Please let me know if that helps resolve the issue, or at least provide a little insight into the problem.

Export Quicktime movie is not rendering video track, just the audio track. However, everything works when using Quicktime Conversion menu options. What is wrong with my setting for Export Quicktime movie?

Export>Quicktime movie is not rendering video track, just the audio track. However, everything works when using Quicktime Conversion menu options. What is wrong with my setting for Export>Quicktime movie?

When you converted the original files via MPEG Streamclip, what did you convert them to?
Have you tried trashing your preferences in FCP? Trashing FCP prefs is usually the first step when FCP is performing strangely.
Download Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion (free) at:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
It will allow you to archive your current preferences if you wish to restore them later.
MtD

Remember Export "Match Sequence Settings" setting?

Hello,
I would have posted this is "Feature Requests" but that currently seems to go to a dead link.
Longtime editor here, new(ish) to Premiere Pro.
My habit is always to set up my sequence to match what my final export specs will be. As a result I pretty much always want the "Match Sequence Settings" in the Export dialogue checked.
It seems that every time I export, Premiere defaults to unchecking this.
It's not really a big deal to have to check it every time, but it one of those little annoying things especially when under the gun if I forget to check it.
It also seems intuitive that software should be able to remember the settings a user frequently uses, rather than the user having to do the remembering. This is the sort of thing computers are good at.
Wondering if we can get a preference to either default this to checked, or default to last used setting? If such exists I have been unable to find it.
Thanks!
Declan

Hi Declan,
Declan Zimmerman wrote:
Hello,
I would have posted this is "Feature Requests" but that currently seems to go to a dead link.
Hmmm. Where were you clicking for feature requests? I'd love to fix that dead link to help others.
Feature requests can be made here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Declan Zimmerman wrote:
My habit is always to set up my sequence to match what my final export specs will be. As a result I pretty much always want the "Match Sequence Settings" in the Export dialogue checked.
It seems that every time I export, Premiere defaults to unchecking this.
Yep, that's a feature request. Sorry it's interrupting your workflow.
Thanks,
Kevin

Best setting to export an HDV sequence to Encore

I have a sequence in a Premiere CS3 project (HDV NTSC preset) and I want to export it to Encore. What is the best setting to export a movie to be imported by Encore?
As a test I have exported it as DV NTSC (720 x 480) but final quality is poor.

Are you planning on burning a BD Project, or do you want to down-rez to SD?
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Hunt

Quicktime Export causing Out of Sync Audio?

I'm trying to export a self contained Quicktime movie from my timeline, and every time I try, the audio ends up being out of sync. What am I doing wrong?
The audio is set to just the defaults, 16 bit, 48khz.
Sequence settings: HDV1080p30
When I bring the final exported movie back into FCP, it plays out of sync.
Exporting through the Share feature to bluRay resulted in perfect sync audio, so I'm at a loss as to why this isn't working.
Please help!

Allright, since nobody out there seems to have the answer - I'm going to share what I discovered so that the next person will actually get an answer without having to spend hours and hours finding it in other forums. Here goes:
Problem: Audio plays in sync on the timeline, an export from the timeline through Share to bluRay results in correctly synced audio; but a Quicktime Export with current settings results in a final movie where audio is out of sync with the video.
Solutions: I found two solutions to this problem:
1- When exporting to Quicktime Movie, check "recompress all frames". This solution had mixed reviews, with lots of people saying you should never do this, as it will reduce the quality of your final output; while others said the reduction in quality was not noticeable to the naked eye. I guess you can try it and be the judge.
2- In your sequence settings, change the compression setting to Apple Pro Res. This is the setting I decided to go with, as I'm currently awaiting the 10 hour render.
I did do a quick and dirty test on the ProRes option, where it appeared to work. Since the audio is correctly synced in the beginning of the video and then slowly falls out of sync (obviously the 30p to 29.97 problem), I had to run a test using my entire sequence. If you run a test on a 2 minute sequence, it will appear to be correct, because it is a slow falling out of sync issue - the problems occur later in your project (just fyi). Here is what I did (in case you want to try it on your project):
I created a new sequence and then changed the compression setting from HDV1080-30p to Apple Pro Res 422. I dragged my sequences into this sequence (so they were nested). I unlinked the audio and then selected about a 20 second area from about 3/4 of the way through the project. I sliced this section and then removed all the video before and after (so it would speed up render time and only render black, but I would still be able to see if the audio synced up later - I hope that makes sense - this made my export time only 12 minutes). After it exported, I reimported the movie, found the little 20 second area, and it was correctly synced. So, now I am exporting the whole thing. I sincerely hope this works. I don't have lots of 10 hour blocks just lyin' around!
Since my audio issue was most likely due to the fact that I captured and edited in 1080 30p, I believe it must be a bug in FCP that exports the Quicktime movie in 29.97 regardless of whatever your sequence settings are (believe me, I tried to change it to 1080-30p and it didn't work). That is why I think the Apple Pro Res option works, but it involves a total re-render of your project. This is also why I believe it plays fine in the timeline, because my timeline was set to 30p. Again, I also believe that is why my export to BluRay through Share resulted in correctly synced audio - the bluRay export I believe uses the Pro Res codec (which, by the way, took 19 hours).
Wish Apple would fix this bug.
Message was edited by: Chermeier1

Premiere HD sequence keeps crashing during export

Hi there everyone,
Today I experienced a problem completely new to me. I tried exporting an HD sequence to a small WMV for use on the web. I used Ctrl-M (export media) to export directly without using the queue. No matter what kind of export settings I entered, the export render fails roughly halfway and Premiere hangs. I also tried an uncompressed Quicktime export, which crashed at about 25% in the same manner.
The workaround for this issue appeared to be using the queue instead of a direct export... which comes a little strange to me as SD sequences never seem to fail like this. Anyone any ideas?
Thanx in @vance,
Tom

Hi Harm,
Thanks for taking time to answer. What happens is I get a Windows error message stating 'Premiere has stopped working' and I can choose to end the program straight away or let Windows find a solution and then stop the program; a definitie frozen situation. So I guess it stops responding.
I have a Matrox MX02 LE graphic system, Windows 7 SP 1, version 5.0.3 of Premiere, HD source material (1440x1080) in the standard Matrox HD codec and I have tried exporting to a 1024 x 576 Quicktime with compression set to NONE for both audio and video. I also tried exporting to WMV 1024 x 576 in the highest variable unconstrained bitrate for A/V available.
There are no blank spots in the timeline.
As said, using the queue feature for export, leading to the full start of the Media Encoder appeared to be a workaround.
Then again, I tested exporting the same thing directly, so without queuing, from an SD project, which worked nicely.
I therefore suppose it must have something to do with the HD to SD conversion, but it beats me what it could be.

Full Quality Quicktime export squashed the picture

Hi,
Exported iMovie HD6 clips as Quicktime export. Clips are 4:3 resolution. Set export dims to "current", but in the exported movie, people and objects look shorter and wider.
Settings used:
Compression: H.264
Quality: Best
Encoding mode: multi-pass
Dimensions: 720x480 (current)
Format: AAC
Sample Rate 48.000 kHz
Channels: Stereo
Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Prepare for Internet Streaming- Fast Start checked.
Settings were chosed based on youtube.com recommendations.
Why does the movie look squashed?
Thanks!!!

UPDATE:
Tried again, and selected dimensions: NTSC 720x480 4:3 instead of "Current" 720x480.
This corrected the problem, but can anyone explain why selecting "current" to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio messed things up?
Thanks!

Quicktime Export Components in Final Cut Server

Our company has purchased a number of Elgato h264 encoders and we're loving them. They reduce our h264 compression times on average from 15-20 mins down to 2-3 mins. It usually compresses our videos faster than real time. Which as a news organization is great for us. These encoders work great on all our Macbook Pros & Mac Pro systems. I've now installed one onto our final cut server and set up a custom compressor setting. Under the 'encoder' tab the file format had to be set to "Quicktime Export Components" instead of "Quicktime Movie" to use the Elgato. And it works great when I send a single file threw compressor. BUT I can't get this custom preset to show up or work inside Final Cut Server. I have other custom settings that do show up and work (but they are all "Quicktime Movie" file formats). I've rebooted multiple times and looked under multiple Responses transcode settings, but the new one I've created to use the Elgato never shows up.
Is it possible to use Quicktime Export Components in Final Cut Server?
I couldn't find any mention of this in the FCS admin manual or any other posts in the forums regarding this.

I have seen on MediaSilo.com a tip to get Elgato H.264 working with Compressor, but I can't seem to be able to find it. Basically, the trick was to create a duplicate setting in Compressor that Final Cut Server is able to read ( not as Quicktime Export Component), associate it with a Final Cut Server's compression setting and later reassign that setting in Compressor to Elgato.
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"out of disk space" error with Quicktime export

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Other details: FC Express 3.0

Well, I thought everything had been rendered, but I'd missed a couple of transitions. When I tried to render those, I got another "out of memory" error. Turns out I'd misinterpreted what the "minimum scratch disk size" setting meant - it was set to 32000 MB - I thought that meant that 32 GB would be available for storage, but I guess it means that the 32 GB will NOT be available for storage.
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Broadband Quicktime Export

Hey guys - I am trying to export a DVCPRO HD 720p24 project using Quicktime conversion. When I do this, I choose Broadband High settings to make it a high quality H.264 for my website. I have done this before, and it has worked great. For some reason, for this particular one minute trailer I made, when I go to do it, a window pops up and says, "File error: Unknown file." No error #, nothing. Just as it says. All my media is connected. Online. No rendering issues. Why won't it work? I am stumped. I don't want to use compressor, because there is no really high quality H.264 setting already packaged.
Can anyone help?

You may have a corrupt clip or render file. Try exporting the first half of your sequence. If that exports successfully, export the second half. and so on, til you find the problem. If both halves of the sequence export successfully, you might have a wonky sequence. Copy all your material to a new sequence.

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