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February 7th, 2006, 09:23 PM | #1 |
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Issues encoding from FCP5 to wmv-hd
Ok…. I am an admitted newbie at editing, but now find myself in a position where I have to get this project done and I am hoping someone here can help me get past, what to me, is a serious stumbling block.
I am running a G5 dualcore 2.3 with 4.5 gigs of RAM, a couple of terabytes of external LaCie 1394a/b drives. I have 43 minutes of 1080i50 footage shot on a Sony HDW-730s on an external 300 gig Maxtor HD. The files on the hard drive are 10 bit uncompressed .mov files and were captured using a Kona2. I have had no issues encoding in H.264 but try as I might I can’t seem to get the wmv-hd files to look anything remotely like HD content. I have used flip4mac WMV Studio Pro HD and Cleaner 6.5 and Compressor 2 and can’t seem to get any of these to encode the files in such a way that they are acceptable. I then tried to encode to avi and switch to my PC (dualcore 3 gig with 2 gigs of RAM) and encode using Microsoft’s Windows Media encoder. This worked great in small test files but I am attempting to encode 2 to 5 minute segments. When exporting out of FCP 5 or Compressor 2 I get a “file to large” error though I have a dedicated LaCie Bigger Disk (1 Terabyte) for the scratch disk and am saving the encoded files to a separate disk. Any advice on how to encode wmv-hd from FCP5 or how to encode 100+ gig avi files would be greatly appreciated. |
February 7th, 2006, 09:42 PM | #2 |
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Is your Lacie Bigger drive formatted for mac or Windows. Windows format has a file size limit of 2Gb I think.
Can you turn on file sharing on the mac and access the drive from your PC through the network?
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February 7th, 2006, 09:51 PM | #3 |
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hey Tim...After lurking here for the last couple of weeks I am glad to meet your acquaintance.
The LaCie is formatted for PC as I have been shifting files from the G5 to the PC using the external drives. I have tried to use the file sharing feature without success. I think it may be because The Sympatico ultra uses dynamic IP's. My main concern at this point (read deadline overdue) is to export uncompressed avi's from fcp. I am considering setting up striped RAID on the LaCie. DO you think it would help the file size issue?
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Welcome to the forum Brent.
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