A couple of QuickTime related tips from The Digidesign User conference….
‘michael c’ asked…
I’m a composer and I need to constantly bounce cues to QT so the producer/director can see how the music is playing under their film. I use the H264 codec and the bounce time for even a 30 to 45 second cue takes forever. Is there another choice that I can use that will still be top quality and yet not take so long to bounce? I am using an 8 core Mac Pro Tower with PT8.04 HD.
‘rafukyo’ replied suggesting….
There are 2 ways:
- Use the 3 modifires (cntrl+alt+cmd) and click the bounce to quicktime menu. Now you get a menu for changing the bounce settings. You can change the selection in the video section to faster encoding.
- Bounce the audio to quicktime format AAC. open the created file with quicktime pro. select all the timeline and copy it. Open the original video file click cmnd J and delete the original sound track. now go to edit menu and select “add to movie”. it will paste the audio file to the video file. now you can save them as new file.
‘minister’ added…
Quickest way is just to bounce it out as a Quicktime and don’t convert it. Then convert it in QT Pro. This way, you can continue working. What codec are you using in Pro Tools?
kd_special agreed…
Yeah I would use this option. I didnt know you could have those Export options in PT for the last few years I had always sent My QT file with my mix to the Machine room to be converted down to an email size vid for client approval. It was a timly processd. Thanks god somone mentioned it to me.
and the second QuickTime tip…
‘nucelar’ asked…..
I’m testing a setup where i would do following:
- Capture a quicktime movie (Motion JPEG codec) with 4 audio channels (PCM, 48k, 16bits)
- Import said movie and its 4 audios in Pro Tools LE (8.0.3, OSX 10.6.2) and spot everything to place.
The mov files I capture are just fine, when I audition the separate channels in quicktime Pro I hear what is supposed to be on each channel. The problem is when Pro Tools imports the audio, it does some kind of mixing and I get two pairs of identical files, not the four discrete channels. Has anyone experienced similar behaviour? or is it a bug?
For the record, with two channels everything’s fine.
‘diamondschwin’ replied…
I dont think Pro Tools handles more than 2 channel quicktimes. you would have to splits out the audio outs of PT and import it
‘nucelar’ responded…
Thank you, but I don’t quite understand what you mean…
My solution for now is to open the mov in quicktime Pro and extract & export the 4 individual audio tracks to wavs. Then import these in Pro Tools. During “Import Video”, Pro tools indeed “sees” the four audio tracks inside the mov, and actually creates four individual tracks for them, but the contents of these is all messed up.
‘quadraphonics’ confirmed…
We do this all of the time. We have up to 8 channels in a Quicktime (HDCAM SR captured via SDI into Final Cut) When importing PT asks which audio tracks to import. Never had it mux the audio together such as you are describing. FWIW, we are running PT 7.2 and 7.3, not 8
‘mikevarela’ confirmed the problem and solution…
Ran in to the same problem once. PT actually blended the audio of 2 channels. Had to extract the audio from quicktime, then import them into PT.
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September 29, 2010 at 3:20 pm
On the bouncing to Quicktime, I always find it easiest to bounce out a qt without converting anything in Pro Tools, and then using Mpeg Streamclip to batch convert everything to a smaller size. It converts fairly quickly, you can make profiles that you can re-use later, and let it go on in the background without taxing your system too much. You can even set how many qt’s it converts at once to help control system usage. Meaning you can get back to working in Pro Tools. Oh, and it’s free….
September 30, 2010 at 8:47 am
Hi Juan,
I agree that Mpeg Streamclip is an incredibly useful piece of software for handling video conversions and as you say its free. Thanks for the comment.