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Re: Resize in Compressor or FCP? - 13 years ago

Wow, while I have no idea what that meant, I'm impressed enough to believe you. Anyone got an alternate opinion?

by nveer - Café LA

Resize in Compressor or FCP? - 13 years ago

I've noticed that one of the most taxing thing for Compressor is the cropping and resizing of video when I'm encoding for the web. I noticed this when I chained to jobs one first resized and cropped and the second did the encoding. I was surprised how fast it actually encoded into H.264. I heard some people suggesting I do my resizing in FCP and then just let Compressor handle th encoding.

by nveer - Café LA

Re: FCP stops capturing after 12 min - 13 years ago

OK so update on this. It only does this when I set a specific in and out point and choose to capture "Clip". If I do a "Capture Now" it seems to plow through. Not sure that is relevant.

by nveer - Café LA

FCP stops capturing after 12 min - 13 years ago

Hey guys, Hoping someone can point me in a direction here. I just had to re-install FCS due to a nasty computer crash. I'm using: MacPro (8 core) FCP 6.0.5 Digitizing via an AJA Kona LS card Since I re-installed, I had to reset all of my capturing settings, which quite frankly is not my strong point. Right now the symptom I am having is when I try to capture video off of my Sony

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Using Frame Rate to reduce file size in Compressor - 14 years ago

Ahaaa. Good point, so my "Keyframe" setting or Iframe is going to be more important than my actual frame rate. Did I understand that correctly?

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Using Frame Rate to reduce file size in Compressor - 14 years ago

This is great input. Thanks guys. I've experimented with taking our original 29.97 footage and am able to drop it down to 22 fps without any noticeable change. I fired two comparison clips (before and after) off to our broadcast dept here and some other folks who would have a critical eye, and they actually said they like the lower frame-rate footage better. I'm guessing since I left my ba

by nveer - Café LA

Using Frame Rate to reduce file size in Compressor - 14 years ago

Hi there, I'm looking to optimize my file size on some H.264 files that we stream online. Does anyone know if the frame rate will influence the end file size? i.e. right now everything I have is 29.97 fps. However, I can reduce it down to 22 fps when I encode this video to H.264 and the change is almost unnoticeable. What I'm wondering is, if I leave my bitrate where it is at (600KB/Sec) w

by nveer - Café LA

Re: FCP Closed Captions in Timeline - 14 years ago

That sounds a little more like what we'd be working towards. i.e. using the Quicktime metadata to embed the caption info into the original video file. However, I'm not sure this really is saving us much time or effort in our workflow anymore. Kind of one of those "great ideas" that in the end didn't really save any time. I have plenty of those. I may still dabble in that directi

by nveer - Café LA

Re: FCP Closed Captions in Timeline - 14 years ago

Thanks for the detailed explanation Andreas. I'm finding there is a lot of interpretation on the definition of Closed captions depending on which world you live in. DVD vs, online distribution vs over the air broadcast. Perhaps if I describe what our goal is, I might save myself some trouble in talking about something I don't know enough about. We are a large production house with a 90 TB

by nveer - Café LA

FCP Closed Captions in Timeline - 14 years ago

I seem to have read somewhere that there is a way to drop caption data right into the timeline in Final Cut Pro. This in turn means that this data is now linked to the footage from here on out. i.e. if I export for DVD, or compress for a podcast, this caption data is always there. Problem is, I can't find this info anywhere online. Can anyone point me in a direction? Am I talking out my le

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

I'd be happy to email it to you, where should I send it? Do note that this script will run perfectly on my computer due to folder structures and "cluster names" not sure it will run on yours. But at least it will give you an example. The "watch me do" feature is the little record button in automator. It records all your actions. You can delete unnecessary ones out of the

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

Actually I skip my lunch and leave at 4:00pm. I then let my compressions all submit at 5:00pm, It is a great place to work, not just for the hours. We're one of the largest production houses in the midwest. Thanks for your interest and exchange of ideas. I'm really glad Ken recommended me to you guys

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

Not a bad idea. Except I can't select my cluster via keyboard shortcut. That is the one step I had to manually get the computer to click on.

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

Ok so sometimes all you have to do is ask for help to be able to come up with a solution on your own. I was able to create an automator workflow with basically ywo actions "Launch Application" (compressor) and then a recorded a "watch me do" move with the short cut for submit (Option+Apple+S) and then with the mouse chose my cluster and clicked on submit. I then saved it

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

Thanks for the quick response. Right now I've been pausing the job. The other night I went home and had forgotten to "un-pause" it which really sucked. I was looking into Automator actions but haven't found any for Compressor or Qmaster, for that matter. I'll keep searching for a solution and see if I get lucks. Thanks again for the effort and explanation.

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Anybody ever seen this before? Is there a website I can look up error messages that anyone knows of? Thanks for all your help!

by nveer - Café LA

Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 14 years ago

Is there a way to submit a job from compressor to the Batch Monitor and have it wait until a specified time to start actually compressing it. Sometimes I want to submit a job so I wont forget it, but don't want my computer tied up as I need to import more raw footage or keep editing on a project. Does anyone know of a way to delay the compressing? Thanks in advance!

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

OK, so slightly new curve to this issue. After I adjusted the shared storage location Qmaster and Qadministrator came crashing down on me. Long story short I just finished re-installing FCS. All is well and working again, however, the chained event still isn't working on the cluster. I did however get a new error which may or may not have more details in it. Here is the error message. Stat

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Aha!!! You're the best! I found it in the manual, and I think this may be it! I'm going to test in a moment. Quick question, if you don't mind me asking. When clustering do you allow it to "copy source to cluster" (in compressor settings) or do you choose "never"?

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Thanks for the response and pointing me in a direction. That's all I need. However, when you say cluster storage, you're talking about a large storage device (server) that has all the data on it. Is that right? If so then that couldn't be the case as all my data is on my local computer. Or is there another side to cluster storage? Again, no need to get too deep into it, I can research

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Interesting, when I leave it setup through Apple QAdministriator but take out all the other macs and just use my local mac, it actually works. As soon as I add one of the other macs back into the cluster it gives me the same error message again.

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Ye I sure did. I tried it as a quick cluster (1 computer using only it's 8 processors) and got the same error. I haven't tried running it as one computer with Qadministrator. But I suspect I will get the same results since QuickCluster didn't work. I'm still going to try it and will report back shortly.

by nveer - Café LA

Re: Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

Thanks for the response. Actually I'm not using any kind of cluster storage. I have a 3 TB internal RAID in my Mac Pro. The original ProRes(HQ) file that I'm working off of is on that drive, as are all the destinations of both the first and second step(s) in my job chain. I've tried leaving everything as "Source" and I've tried setting specific destinations. I also tried messing wi

by nveer - Café LA

Compressor Chained Job Error with Cluster Use. - 14 years ago

I have a multi computer cluster consisting of 8 core mac pros and dual core G5?s on a Gigabit network. I have been working on my compression settings to improve the final result, and have come up with a 2 step chained job. (first resize and sharpen then encode). This works great when I submit the job to my local computer and don?t use any clustering what so ever. Of course it?s very slow.

by nveer - Café LA


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