Titles Break Up and Pans Jerk after Compressor / DVD SP
I have a 20 minute program. I exported from Final Cut to Compressor, and applied the MPEG-2 High Quality 60 minute setting. After 4 hours of encoding, I then imported the file Compressor created into DVD-Studio Pro and burned a test DVD. When I viewed the DVD everything was beautifully sharp BUT, on some of the pans the moves "jerk" (which they don't in the original material. And the pans aren't very fast) and more disasterously, for the end credits, the white type against black background has little flecks "eaten away" out of the letters. Given that I picked what seemed to be the highest quality MPEG-2 setting in compressor, why am I still seeing these quality issues? What can I do? I had started out, and posted in fact to the discussion, a complaint that the native encoding in DVD Studio Pro yielded less than satisfactory results. The advice was to treat the material with Compressor first and then import into DVD Studio Pro. But I still have problems. This is just a simple museum video, nothing fancy visually. How can I get professional result??? Is there a secret formula I am missing? Thanks in advance for your help, which is always invaluable. Of course, like most people posting here I'm sure, I am fighting a deadline!
Pamela Glintenkamp wrote:
I have a 20 minute program. I exported from Final Cut to Compressor, and applied the MPEG-2 High Quality 60 minute setting.
What version of Compressor are you using? The setting that you mention (MPEG-2 High Quality) is a Compressor 1.x setting. I ask because your signature states that you're using FCP 6. If you're using FCP 6, then you're using Compressor 3.
If all that is correct, then you should nuke the old Compressor 1.x settings since they are incompatible with newer versions of Compressor (though the document mentions Compressor 2.x, it applies to 3 as well).
For reference on the old settings (so you know if your setting is to blame), check out this tutorial on Compressor 1.x. To confirm the correct settings that should be available to you in Compressor 3 - after following the instructions from the Knowledge Base document, of course - check out this page.
Once you're using the correct settings (native to Compressor 3) you shouldn't have any issues. Good luck.
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Hi,
I have been using scale to adjust larger than 4K image sequences so they fit 1080 and 4K output. I want to be able to zoom in and pan/tilt the program window so I can see the edges of the program window close up, so I can see to make a fine adjustment of scale. I want to be able to adjust scale precisely so I don't lose a single pixel, or include any black around the edges of the images. Of course I can't see the edges close up enough while looking at the entire image, to really see if I have scaled too much or too little. I know how to zoom in the program window, but how do I pan over to the side and bottom edges ? Without being able to pan I instantly lose the edges of the frame when I zoom in the program window.Perhaps this will help it make sense to you.
I am taking tme lapse sequences shot on a DSLR and putting them onto Blu Ray disks for viewing. I also outputted a 4K file to try to play at Best Buy on a 4K television. The images are 4928 X 3280 pixels, which is larger than 4K, and much larger than 1080. One of the advantages of using these large images directly and not reducing them in Photoshop first is that I can have a time lapse zoom, which is very difficult to achieve otherwise. I can also pan and tilt. Another advantage is not having to reduce thousands of images three times, once for 1080, once for 4K, and once for stills..
I usually work with 1080 video, and animated 1080 still sequences from Maya, or standard definition video. This is the my first opportunity to work with higher resolutions.
Generally, for my first evaluation of these DSLR stills, i wanted to show some of them fully without cutting any off. This means there is a black border onthe sides because the DSLR stills are 2:3 instead of 9:16. For this I have used a scale of 32.6% for 1080, and 66% for 4K. For some sequences i wanted to just completely fill the frame. For this I used 38.9% for 1080, and 77.9% for 4K.
My assumption is that Premier should do scaling as well as Photoshop does, and so I have let Premier do the work, saving me a lot of extra work. First i take all the original images and process them from raw to tiff, for the day exposures. Then i process them again for the night exposures. Then i bring them into either my 1080 project, or my 4K project. I put the night pictures above the day pictures on a separate video track. I use opacity to dissolve from the day to night processed images as night falls inthe scene.
Two sequences I shot are of the night sky during the recent meteor shower. After watchign the video I see i caught three instances of persistent meteor trails distorting in the sky. I was able to zoom in quite a bit, and track the position, because the sequence is of greater resolution than the native 1080 format. It gives me a second change at composition, or the ability to zoom in on something interesting that happens in the scene.
It seems to me that the only reason i would want to first process the images down to 1080 in Photoshp, would be if the quality of the scaling was higher in Photoshop.
When i adjust the scale, I am adjusting the scale of an image that is 4928 X 3280, in the program monitor which is probably only well less than 1000 pixels on my screen. It would be nice if I could not only zoom, but pan in the program window, so I could more accurately adjust scale by looking at the edges. So if there is no other way to do this visually, I am suggesting adding the ability to pan and tilt in the program monitor to accomplish this. Sure I could figure out the scale mathematically. I could still end up adding a row of black pixels, or cutting off a row of image pixels, due to some error such as rounding errors, or starting with 1 instead of zero, or vice versa. -
NVidia error code 6 When zooming and panning a high res still image
I am consistantly getting the following error code which shuts down CS6. This is when zooming and panning a still images measuring something like 5300 pixels wide, and 4000 pixels high. I started by looking at the video driver, but nVidia says it is up to date. I am now wondering if the size of the still image is actually the problem? This is in a 1080 sequence.
Harware is GTX570
Any ideas?Bill and Dennis.
Error Code 6 message - new challeng in the past 48 hours on very old premiere project.
My system - Win 7 64 byte serv pack 1, Ppro CS5.0.3, I7 processor, 12 g ram, nvidia gtx 470.
In the past 2 days, I am getting error code 6 from Nvidia on a logo that is keyed and 3d rolled on white background. The logo has been used without issue for many months in this same project and was encoded correctly by Adobe 1920 x 1280. Once this issue began, I had to render it 1-3 frames per request of project rendering last night. I imported the correctly encoded logo again to the project and it began to have the same issue again. I tried to change the harsh 3d rotations to see if it would relieve the processors overall. Nothing changed after it began to freeze up wtih the error message.
I saved, shut the PC down and left the system rest overnight.
This morning the project will get past the small load screen, but will not get past pulling the first file in the project once the editing screen loads. Prem Pro will launch correctly in all other projects this morning, but not this one. It gives me the same error message as it did when the problem started, but I can't even begin to touch the project. Message - "Hardware config doesn't meet min standards Error Code 6". I close the program, but then have to enter task manager to relaunch the program since it just hangs there.
My work around, when the project launched yesterday, was to render a much smaller amount of frames at a time which worked SLOWLY, but now I can't even access the program. Ouch. Backups are available from a few days ago, but I want to discover why this happened to avoid this issue for the future. Not much confidence at this point particularly when I rendered to match rez and deleted the media cache yesterday just in case the system was having to work around more cache than needed.
I have my computer hardware company looking into the issue, but I didn't take any known updates on the software in the past week. I thought this might be a thermal issue because we are having some challenges keeping our editing area cool enough, but that isn't the issue this morning because the other projects do launch correctly and the ambient temps are down. Thanks for any suggestions. I am a little slow to go out and see if there are any updates from Nvidia until I am out of options. I don't want to change the system scenario before I see if there are any other options. -
Blackberry Torch is all th time breaking down and driving up since this morning when i did syc.
Heelo, to all. My torch is since this moirning after syc all the time breaking down and again starting up. Whta can i do?
I suggest trying a new/different battery. If that doesn't fix it then it may be software related.
Important: Make a full backup of the device using BlackBerry Desktop Software before continuing.
Go to Options >Security Wipe. Wipe the device, including 3rd party applications. Does the device still exhibit the same behavior?
If yes, then you can try reloading the OS to the device. If we need to do that I'll provide instructions.
If no, then restore your backup file to the device and see if the device still works normally. If it does then you can begin to reinstall your apps one by one until you find the one that is causing the reboot problems. If the problem comes back then you know it was something in your personal data and you can wipe the phone again and restore only the most important data from the backup and start over fresh for everything else.
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QT breaking up and sound out of sync - cpu or ram or browser problem?
1. I try to watch BBC news video clips but can never get anything other than the sound out of sync, the picture breaking up and what I can only try to describe as a 'delayed streaming problem' where the film jumps frames from one frame to 'much later'.
2. Also the BBC has options of 'screen size' - I can't go to their large size so am stuck with a small version. (I don't think this is associated with the core problem.)
I play these clips either through Media Player or Real Player but it makes no difference.
I have flip4mac installed. I have the ATI display drivers updated.
I hope you understand the problem.
I hope I'll understand the answers!
Thanks for any helps.
GordonAnother thing I've just noticed is that when the news clips are downloading and playing it is only at 36kbps. I have as far as I can set preferences at 256kbps.
I am connected to DSL but I'm not sure at what rate the ISP delivers. (I know it's the cheapest!)
Hope this helps anyone inclined to help.
Thanks
Gordon
ps After the World Cup Final is ok! -
HDV sequence has green lines and pink dots after export
I digitized some HDV footage from a Sony HVR-VIU into Final cut Pro 7. Everything worked normally through the edit. After exporting the sequence as a quicktime movie, it played back fine as a quicktime. When I attempted to convert it to a media file in Sorenson Squeeze, the file showed up with green lines and pink dots over the picture. To test it differently, I dropped the file into IDVD. Same, result in playback. I've never seen anything like this before, any ideas?
Brad your article was extremely helpful in getting my sequence to work for a DVD. However, I've had success before using the same camera, format, etc., in making DVD's from an HDV sequence, and I'm curious as to what I did wrong this time. The most confusing part to me is that the original quicktime self-contained export played fine through quicktime, but got funky when placed into IDVD and Sorenson's Squeeze compressor. I must have done something wrong up front in digitizing or making settings in FCP, and I'd like to know what it was so I don't do it in the future. Thanks.
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Why do I loose quality after compressor?
I have quality loss after I use compressor. The file compressor makes looks much worse than the file I export from FCP. Can anyone help?? My project is 1440x1080, and I export quicktime movie as apple ProRes 422 1440x1080 30p. The exported file looks great, but after compressor it looks bad. thank You for any help.
How are you compressing it?
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