Miner Details » Video Production http://jeremyminer.com Things going through the mind of Jeremy Miner Mon, 03 May 2010 00:44:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HDV Sync Problem Revisited http://jeremyminer.com/2008/07/01/hdv-sync-problem-revisited/ http://jeremyminer.com/2008/07/01/hdv-sync-problem-revisited/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:21:58 +0000 Jeremy http://jeremyminer.com/?p=13 In a previous post I wrote about how I was having audio problems with HDV exporting from Final Cut Pro. I thought I had found a solution but the problem came back.  So I tried exporting using Apple’s ProRes 422 codec (1440×1080, 60i, specifically).  It took all night to export and ate up 120GB of disk space, but I’m reviewing the output and the audio and video appear to be synced up.

Did you find this tip helpful?  Do you have [...]]]> In a previous post I wrote about how I was having audio problems with HDV exporting from Final Cut Pro. I thought I had found a solution but the problem came back.  So I tried exporting using Apple’s ProRes 422 codec (1440×1080, 60i, specifically).  It took all night to export and ate up 120GB of disk space, but I’m reviewing the output and the audio and video appear to be synced up.

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Open the file in Quicktime. Hit cmd-j Click on “Video Track” UNCHECK “Preserve Aspect Ratio” Change “Scaled Size” from 720 x 480 to 853 x 480 Press the “Return” key Close the window and [...]]]> Sometimes working with 16:9 aspect ratios can cause problems, especially when moving video from Final Cut Pro to iDVD. The problem seems to be from exporting to Quicktime from FCP. If a video that should be 16:9 comes out as 4:3 after export, I have a little trick for fixing it.

  1. Open the file in Quicktime.
  2. Hit cmd-j
  3. Click on “Video Track”
  4. UNCHECK “Preserve Aspect Ratio”
  5. Change “Scaled Size” from 720 x 480 to 853 x 480
  6. Press the “Return” key
  7. Close the window and save your 16:9 aspect ratio video.  It should look correct when you bring it in to iDVD now.

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A quick search on Google shows that a lot of other people are experiencing this problem, but so [...]]]> I was working on a big HDV project in FCP yesterday and I was nearly finished with it.  After checking the export from Final Cut Pro I was annoyed that the audio got more and more out of sync as the track went on.  When you edit precisely to the frame, all your hard work is destroyed if it is out of sync.

A quick search on Google shows that a lot of other people are experiencing this problem, but so far I’ve found only one solution which worked for me.

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/990590#990590

Sterling Noren from Seattle, WA wrote that you can create a new project and drag the sequence into the browser of the new project.  I tried it and that seems to fix it.  I think we can chalk it up to a strange bug in FCP.  I know that FCP is a big, complicated program, but when I pay over $1300 for software, I expect it to work better than this.

Did this solution work for you?  Do you have a better one?  Please leave a comment.

Update:

http://jeremyminer.com/2008/07/01/hdv-sync-problem-revisited/

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