very clear... thanks a lot

Thank you. Helped a lot. Its hard to find good Apple tutorials.

Thanks Peter, much appreciated tutorial. You rock !

Thank u Peter. I will convert to FCPS becuz of 5D2 and U!

Peter,

Good stuff!
I am a layman when it comes to FCP, so I have a few questions. Hope you can help me/us out.

1. Why do you have to compress to H.264 if the video is already in H.264 like you mentioned...?
2. I noticed when you were under the compression options you left the key frames tab at 24 fps. Why if the 5D Mark II shoots at 30 fps?
3. Couldn't you do the same compression under FCP file-export- Using Quicktime Conversion- Options as you do here under file-export-Using Compression??
4. I also noticed you used 720 for the final size. Why not use 1080? Can vimeo not handle it?
5. At point 1.55 in, I noticed right when you create the new 'Cut Color Compress' sequences it reads 23.98 fps. Why does this that happen if the cincoD Marko dos shoot 30 fps? It also reads a bit to the right....HDV 1080p24....
6. Finally at point 3:31 in, why does your aspect ratio say "HDTV 1080i" .....?? You say "it all matches up to the same footage you put in." Is that correct, again I ask because the camera shoots 1080p not 1080i??

sigh... again I am a layman in FCP so thats why I noticed every little thing, hence the questions. But I am sure it will help others if you can take a look. Thanks.

-ipa

ive been having export problems for my FCP6: Lots of blocky artifacts in night-skies/vignettes/fade transitions/shadows, etc.

I did these export settings and tried others with no luck. You can view/DL my vids to see what im talking about.

Is there better Compressor settings? I notice theres much more options in Compressor Settins window: such as the frame controls. Will this make a difference? Maybe the Anti-Alias?

I also read somewhere your supposed to change the Output Field to Progressive too.

Ive been trying to fix this problem since Dec, lol.

Any help very much appreciated.

Thanks! I wasn't sure about the 3,000 mbps. Good advice. Thanks for all your video, Peter. I dig them all. They're helping me out a ton.

One question. if you stay in H264, how do you deal with the stuttering?

Also, any thoughts on audio drift issue with external sound recorders. Lots of talk on how it drifts 18 frames over 10 min.

How did you manage dropped frames? I am running a MacPro with 8Gb of ram and Internal Sata Drive 1TB. I am just wondering if maybe I should go back to your initial suggestion of transcoding to Pro Res?

Hi peter,
great tutorial but I see few things wrong.
You are writing 8b files (h2640) in 10b, but they are still 8b.
if you want Compressor work in 10b (to properly convert h264 in ProRess), you MUST set "Control Frame: ON".
If you want to do the same transcoding properly in FC, you MUST set "Render all YUV material in High Precission YUV".
If you don't do that your files are just 8b wrote in 10b.
Another thing you must do is to set properly the field order of the H264. Is NONE (Progressive) instead of Upper-first as appear in the screen.
Little things to improve the final results.
Best,
rafael

Hey Peter, just thought you might like to know this in case you hadn't heard about it yet.

Check out this article by John Galt, the Senior Vice President of Advanced Digital Imaging at Panavision’s corporate office:

magazine.creativecow.net/arti...ture-of-pixels

Scroll down past all the stuff about 4K and he talks about how they are integrating HDR into their new sensor.

Great tutorials Peter! I can't find that film vignette video you created that you added over this clip. Where can I find it?

Cheers