Re: [FCP-L] OT Compressor Strip CC

John,

On the HD side of things: Yes, the longer renders come from having to
recompress all frames to remove the previous captions vs. just
exporting a dvcprohd sequence with current settings. It ads an
additional 30+ mintues to the render.

Sent from my fruit phone.

On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:38 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Just curious how the presence of captioning SD style makes for
> longer renders? Is it that the necessary effect to remove the
> captioning is what creates the longer renders. Since SD captioning
> is just a line of blips of white on line 21 I don't see why that
> requires extra rendering time unless it's the removal process.
>
> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Andy Edwards <aedigitaltv@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the details Kerry. It is all HD. A show I am now working
> > on uses flattened air masters files for look back elements of
> previous
> > shows. They come with the captioning that makes for longer renders
> > when outputting the new master. I have to recompress all frames to
> > remove the captioning in each episode.
> >
> > Maybe I'll just grab the terrabyte of files and batch export them
> all
> > over the turkey day holiday from fcp.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy Edwards
> >
> > Sent from my fruit phone.
> >
> > On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Kerry Soloway <ksoloway@...> wrote:
> >
> > > When you say "strip", do you mean "remove"?
> > >
> > > Is this an SD or HD program?
> > >
> > > When I have had to re-edit closed captioned SD programs but
> maintain
> > > the
> > > closed captioning, I found that if I overlay the original video
> with a
> > > bottom crop of 99.5 (which I believe is in %), it will allow me to
> > > preserve
> > > the captioning. The inverse of that would be a top crop of .5 (1/2
> > > of 1%),
> > > if I wanted to remove it.
> > >
> > > Consequently, I'm thinking that, you could crop the top 2 or 3
> lines
> > > of
> > > video in Compressor in order to delete the captioning. Of course
> you
> > > are
> > > then left with a non-standard size frame. I wouldn't resize to
> full
> > > height
> > > because you will create all sort of unnecessary artifacts. Of
> > > course, if you
> > > are starting with 486 lines, you could crop 4 lines off of the top
> > > and 2
> > > lines off of the bottom, creating a standard 720 x 480 frame.
> And by
> > > eliminating even numbers of lines at the top and the bottom, you
> > > won't be
> > > changing the field order.
> > >
> > > Kerry
> > > -------------------
> > > Kerry Soloway
> > > http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com
> > > 201-247-4110
> > > ksoloway@...
> > >
> > > Watch "Consuelo Mack/WealthTrack" weekly on PBS. Check your local
> > > listings.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Andy Edwards <aedigitaltv@...>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Does any one know if Compressor will strip Closed Captions? Or
> is the
> > >> only way doing re-compress all frames out of FCP.
> > >>
> > >> Andy Edwards
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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