View Full Version : Quick time compression Clips stuttering


Sam Haber
June 18th, 2007, 09:11 PM
Okay so I tried a couple compressions of the first HD video I've done in FCP. I used H.264. After taking much longer than I had thought it would I was left with a 80mb file. Seams kinda big for a 4 minute movie. Anyway after watching the .mov the quality was great but some of the clips arnt working right. Im pretty sure it is only in the spots where I have sped things up a bit. It plays the clip multipul times from differnt starting and stopping points..!
How could this happen? What is happening? Everything looks and runs smooth in FCP. Can anyone help?

Chuck Fadely
June 19th, 2007, 08:02 AM
I know of several people with this problem. There's a bug lurking somewhere. The video goes out of synch and you see it twice for a brief instant.

Output the .mov through Compressor instead of making a QT Movie off the timeline. Or vice versa if you used Compressor first. And make a self-contained .mov instead of a reference movie.

I haven't had it happen to me because I'm still on 10.4.8 and 5.1.2, so I don't know exactly which it is.... but ouput it another way and it should be fine.

Sam Haber
June 20th, 2007, 09:27 PM
Yea I used compressor, worked fine, took 2 hours or more tho. Is this normal for a 4 minute movie?