Derek Prestegard
March 27th, 2007, 01:49 AM
Hey everyone,
So I'm consulting for a project, and I am witnessing some very strange behavior. The basics - Final Cut Pro 5.1, source material is a mixture of HD (all in Photo JPEG, which is the project codec at 23.976), and 24p DV (simple 3:2 pulldown) which is a low resolution version of super 16 film that will later be onlined to HD.
This has been a very tricky project due to a variety of HD formats - HDCAM, DVCPRO HD, HDV, Uncompressed, but they have all been converted to Photo JPEG for simplicity's sake. That much is simple enough. However, we have some issues exporting sequences to DVD for review. If we simply export with Compressor, it frequently fails while encoding with a QuickTime error 0, which when researched indicates a possible shortage of RAM. This is not the case, as the system is a MacPro with 2GB of FB-DIMM. Surely that is enough, and all of the memory is not even being used.
A workaround that works is to export the sequence as a Quicktime MOV first (using the project settings). However, this creates random flash frames. It's hard to describe, usually around an edit one or two frames will have a wildly varying overall luma level. These are created seemingly at random, and are not present in the timeline, and when direct MPEG-2 encoding does rarely succeed, they are not in there either.
We can convert the resulting MOVs into MPEG-2 with compressor after we export them, but of course the flash frames remain, and are simply dreadful to look at.
I've never come across this behavior before. Suggestions??
Thanks!
-Derek
So I'm consulting for a project, and I am witnessing some very strange behavior. The basics - Final Cut Pro 5.1, source material is a mixture of HD (all in Photo JPEG, which is the project codec at 23.976), and 24p DV (simple 3:2 pulldown) which is a low resolution version of super 16 film that will later be onlined to HD.
This has been a very tricky project due to a variety of HD formats - HDCAM, DVCPRO HD, HDV, Uncompressed, but they have all been converted to Photo JPEG for simplicity's sake. That much is simple enough. However, we have some issues exporting sequences to DVD for review. If we simply export with Compressor, it frequently fails while encoding with a QuickTime error 0, which when researched indicates a possible shortage of RAM. This is not the case, as the system is a MacPro with 2GB of FB-DIMM. Surely that is enough, and all of the memory is not even being used.
A workaround that works is to export the sequence as a Quicktime MOV first (using the project settings). However, this creates random flash frames. It's hard to describe, usually around an edit one or two frames will have a wildly varying overall luma level. These are created seemingly at random, and are not present in the timeline, and when direct MPEG-2 encoding does rarely succeed, they are not in there either.
We can convert the resulting MOVs into MPEG-2 with compressor after we export them, but of course the flash frames remain, and are simply dreadful to look at.
I've never come across this behavior before. Suggestions??
Thanks!
-Derek