| Yeah - I figured you'd have to encode for the movie codec/dimensions - you'd have to have a little library of black movies - can you restrict the user to ProRes? Even then there's Proxy, LT, 422, HQ, 4444... times standard dimensions of NTSC, PAL, 720, 1080 - not to mention frame rates and interlace...
not an easy task you've set for yourself...
Patrick Sheffield Sheffield Softworks
On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Bruce Sharpe wrote: Hi Patrick,
That would sort of work, but the gaps can be of arbitrary length and we'd also like to match the other clips in terms of codec, frame rate, etc. and those things aren't known ahead of time.
So the approach we've been trying is to take a single JPEG frame and create QuickTime movies for the duration of any gaps. These JPEG movies are then added to the reference movie to fill in any gaps on the video track. This should work except that the JPEG movie needs an acceptable encoding like ProRes. So far we haven't found a mechanism to encode the JPEG movie into ProRes without user interaction. Ideally we could look at the clips being referenced and encode the JPEG movies in exactly the same way.
Bruce --
Bruce Sharpe CEO, Singular Software Inc.
www.singularsoftware.com
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Patrick Sheffield <email@hidden> wrote:
Can you have a standard movie of black & silence (longer than any gap) that you reference to fill the gaps?
You can also copy the black movie into the reference movie (as FCP does when it has to render for a reference movie) if your concerned about reference location.
Patrick
Dyslexed via iPhone On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Bruce Sharpe < email@hidden> wrote:
We want to create QuickTime reference movies that are playable in FCP 7 and are finding it a bit tricky. In particular, we want to have gaps between clips (and/or at the beginning) but can't get FCP to play a reference movie with gaps. So we are trying things like filling the gaps with slug movies created by replicating frames, etc.
It's not working yet and it's feeling more complicated than it should be. Are they guidelines on how to create FCP-compatible reference movies with gaps?
Bruce
-- Bruce Sharpe CEO, Singular Software Inc.
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