What's the Best Workflow to Add Footage to Existing H.264 files?
I have some ready-made clips for the Internet already spec'd to H.264 at about 640x480. The audio is AAC. I would like to add bumpers to the beginning and end of these clips. Would you simply import them into FCP, make a 640x480 timeline add the bumpers, render and export? Or, is there a better way?
I ran a test where I imported the H.264 file into FCP, added my bumpers and re-rendered. The results were not that bad however I'm getting interlacing issues when uploading to Vimeo. I tried using 'Progressive' in Compressor to rid of the of the lines but no luck. Then I took a look at the'De-Interlace' filter in FCP but it appears that the original H.264 file is what contains the lines and the filter doesn't remove them. Any ideas. Here's the result on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/1893904
In case you're wondering, I no longer have the original, 720x480, SD files. The 640x480, H.264 is all I have to work with.
Open your main movie and its bumpers in QuickTime Player.
Make sure the Timeline on your main movie is sitting at frame 1 then click your intro bumper to bring it to the front.
Press cmd & A keys (select all). Press cmd & C keys (copy). Press Option, cmd and V keys (Add to Movie).
Move the timeline of your main movie to the last frame then click your outro (is that a word?) bumper to bring it to the front.
Press cmd & A keys (select all). Press cmd & C keys (copy). Press Option, cmd and V keys (Add to Movie).
Save As... (makes a new file - better than overwriting the old version.)
Quick and dirty, but it gets the job done.
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Best Workflow to Add Footage to Existing H.264 files?
I have some ready-made clips for the Internet already spec'd to H.264 at about 640x480. The audio is AAC. I would like to add bumpers to the beginning and end of these clips. Would you simply import them into FCP, make a 640x480 timeline add the bumpers, render and export? Or, is there a better way?
I ran a test where I imported the H.264 file into FCP, added my bumpers and re-rendered. The results were not that bad however I'm getting interlacing issues when uploading to Vimeo. I tried using 'Progressive' in Compressor to rid of the of the lines but no luck. Then I took a look at the'De-Interlace' filter in FCP but it appears that the original H.264 file is what contains the lines and the filter doesn't remove them. Any ideas. Here's the result on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/1893904
In case you're wondering, I no longer have the original, 720x480, SD files. The 640x480, H.264 is all I have to work with.Try this.
1. Encode one of your bumpers to the same specs (at least the same video/audio codec and frame size) as your ready-made clips.
2. Open up QuickTime Pro
3. Open both one of your ready-made clips and one of your bumpers
4. Copy the bumper and paste it in front of your ready-made H.264 clip
5. Save as a self-contained QuickTime file, and try uploading it to Vimeo
As for deinterlacing (and downscaling), have you tried implementing frame controls?
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