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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: i MAC 1.6 GHZ or 1.8Ghz for MOTION 2 - 18 years agohai david. thanks for reply. can we change the video card in " I MAC 1.6 or previous gen 1.8 ". what do u think about NEW i MAC 2 GHZ which ATI 128 MB Video card. is that suffice for good Motion performance. TIA.by gev - Motion i MAC 1.6 GHZ or 1.8Ghz for MOTION 2 - 18 years agolooking for users input ON using , "i MAC 1.6 GHZ . How does MOTION 2 performs with this sytem ofcourse with atleast 1.25 GB RAM....pl share ur insights & opinion. will there be any EFFECTIVE performance enhancement if one goes for I MAC 1. 8 GHZ . TIA.by gev - Motion Mixing procoder and compressor .m2v. Opinion plz - 18 years agowe have a NTSC DVD which is actually edited PAL footage ( 25P - PANA) . Pal footage were encoded using PROCODER then brought back to DVDSP as NTSC .M2v.there is one file which is NOT getting converted in procoder But compressor does it and DVD sp plays fine. we even made a DVD and that plays too. can we combine this compressor encoded file with the existing procoder .m2v file in the DVD SP..wby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: playing good in TV but pixelating indesktop/laptop - 18 years agoplaying good in TV but pixelating in Computer/laptop we have encoded 25p footage ( after edit with FCP5) in procoder -6Mbps/interlaced/lowerorder - brought to DVDSP ...the final DVD looks fine in TV but it shows "edged" ,pixelation occurs and at times when there is a cut /change of shot it even shows flash of a BW picture . this happens ONLY in desktop/laptop. This is very odd..any sby gev - DVD Studio Pro Encoding problem for color corrected clips .preplexed . - 18 years agowe have shot a project with 25 P PANA DVX ..after editing with FCP..we have encoded the final film with both procoder and compressor..but we are shocked to see that in few clips/shots- in which we have applied 3 way color correction - is showing jagged edges and pixalation. we have exported as QT , with and w/o hiquality option enabled as well as disabled ,changed the field order in fcp , anby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: suitable FONT for sub-title - 18 years agohai . i saw gandhi which was really simple looks clean and good . seems to be ARIAL .by gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: suitable FONT for sub-title - 18 years agowhat kind is been used for most of the films in HOLLYWOOD. they look simple readable & no jitter at all. tia .by gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: procoder files not working with DVD SP...sos. - 18 years agothanks so much. when i brought the file again from PC to MAC..it all works fine. i ckecked the file size and it looks there was some corruption when those files from pc were copied/written . now it is solved. anyway it is nice that so much of info is shared in this forum from guys like you.by gev - DVD Studio Pro remote disable in DVD SP ? - 18 years agowe need to DISABLE the remote control when DVD starts to play from the opening WARNING till the menu appears . how it has to be done . thanks a lotby gev - DVD Studio Pro procoder files not working with DVD SP...sos. - 18 years agoFootage shot in Pana 25P & edited in FCP 5.Then brought to PC.We have done some test with procoder & encoded files . these files when brought to DVD SP .. it says " not compatible " . is there any work around to use these encoded files. project is fresh & we have not brought other encoded files . it is all procded files only . TIAby gev - DVD Studio Pro DVD audio normalization setting in Compressor - 18 years agowe are keeping -31 for audio voices when encloded with compression . for ONLY music - stereo - what should be setting in compressor for making DOLBY AC3 2 TRACK. TIA Post Edited (12-07-05 22:21)by gev - DVD Studio Pro suitable FONT for sub-title - 18 years agoas a rule of thumb is there any Font which works & looks better for subtitle . is there any difference in applying a font as far as progressive and interlaced footage are concerned . TIA.by gev - DVD Studio Pro Dvd jumping when dissolves appear..help pls - 18 years agowe have a PAL footage done with 25P pana . then edited with fcp5 . then thro compressor we made a DVD ( 2 pass 4.5 TO 7.5 OR 7.8 ) Ntsc Dvd . when ever dissolves or fx appear the video is jumping or one can see a flash . pl help to avoid this . by the way should i choose interlaced for DVD though my pal source is 25 RPOGRESSIVE . if interlaced why & lower or upper for NTSC . TIAby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: Procoder setting...for NTSC DVD with DVD SP . help - 18 years agothanks HAL.by gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: Procoder setting...for NTSC DVD with DVD SP . help - 18 years agothanks HAL. you mentioned " To save bits, use VBR instead of CBR " . in general for medium fast & not much of fast zoom or pan..what CAN be the VBR in procoder . with your input i can start a test . thanks a lot for the help & suggestions .by gev - DVD Studio Pro NTSC picture setup for dvd sp . - 18 years agoWe have images taken in RAW image format , size 2560 X 1920 @ 240 DPI . . these images are needed as backgrounds / menu in a NTSC DVD . like to know how the size can be set so that these photos can be resized and brought in to DVD SP. help us to make these pic good & possible w/o any distortion . WHICH colour profile should be selected & why. is 72 dpi ok. . photoshop cs gives varioby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: Procoder setting...for NTSC DVD with DVD SP . HAL - 18 years agothanks for your response. as i mentioned our footage is progressive shot in pana 25p PAL. IT IS going to be watched a lot on television . so you suggest interlace ( field order any ) . my doubt is - is that FINE to deinterlace when the footage is shot in progressive . then what is the advantage in shooting prog . is 2.5 Mbps OKAY for DVD 5 . mine is a 4hrs. so planning to got either 2 . DVD5 or oby gev - DVD Studio Pro Procoder setting...for NTSC DVD with DVD SP . help - 18 years agowe have a long edited footage about 3.5 hrs shot in PANA DVX 25 P - PAL . keeping it as individual segments each running into 2 minutes to 5 minutes. planning to do NTSC DVD . right now i can export from Fcp 5 as QT MOVE ( should High quality be enabled after exporting as self contained movie ) . then import to procoder . what should be setting in procoder so that i can take the mpeg2 & audioby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: GOP open or closed - 18 years agothanks for the reply. we dont have multiple angle. it is pal footage ( 25p) turned to NTSC MEPG2 via compressor ( maybe we can do with nattress too) . for this KIND which u suggest . open or closed. in doing so anyother setting to MIND under GOP. Thanksby gev - DVD Studio Pro long audio track w/o video ? - 18 years agoIn our DVD we have a long audio track more than an hour which we would like to add w/o any video . in the main menu we need to have a button..which should ( after selecting) play the lengthy audio w/o any video . may be we can have a picture which will be "there" till the audio plays . is there any proper method for doing this . and is there any way to have chatper mark for the same audby gev - DVD Studio Pro subtitle ....Guidance pl - 18 years agoWe need to make subtitle for over 100 minute project . so looking for tips & suggestion to make the subtitle as good as possible . we are setting between 4 & 7.5 OR 3.5 AND 7.5 ( which is better ) after doing some test 3.5 & 7.5 2pass VBR looks better . does CHV-Electronics based subtitle plugin works better - . pl SHARE ur opinions and suggestions . thanks a tonby gev - DVD Studio Pro GOP open or closed - 18 years agolooking for tips on the diffrence between these and what are the pros and cons of these two . tips and suggestion are welcome plz. how to treat KEYed PAL footage before exporting to compressor for NTSC Dvd . TIA.by gev - DVD Studio Pro Stories with multiple tracks ...? - 18 years agoIam doing a NTSC Dvd . i have multiple clips say 1 to 40 encoded using compressor . with" play all" im setting to play from clip 1 to clip 40 in that order . i would also like to make a story where selected clips should play in that order ( say 2 , 7, 14, 23 , 29 , 33 , 34 , 39 ) when story button is selected . my questions is - will story work only with SINGLE track or can we also dby gev - DVD Studio Pro 23.98 or 29.97...suggestion plz - 18 years agowe have a PAL footage which we are planning to export from FCP5 via compressor for making a NTSC DVD . we did a test for both 23.98 and 29.97 test and made a DVD. The 29.97 looks better as well as plays better . but still we are looking for opinion/views to finalize the frame rate before exporting from FCP5 thro compressor as NTSC MPEG2 so that we can bring that mpeg2 to DVD SP . TIA.by gev - DVD Studio Pro shot in PAL prog..need to convert NTSC - 18 years agowe have a project which is shot in PANA DVX102 in PROGRESSIVE mode . edit in FCP 5 . we need to convert the footage to NTSC for DVD authoring & replication. looking for tips & suggestion for the conversion to get as better AS possible in NTSC ..TIA ...pl suggest/guideby gev - DVD Studio Pro Re: macmini with DVD SP 4..error message .help! - 18 years agothanks for reply. actualy after posting this i installed pro support & dvd sp worked. But FCP5 worked even w/o the pro support. just to add my observation. thanks for the replies.by gev - DVD Studio Pro macmini with DVD SP 4..error message .help! - 18 years agoi have MACMINI 1.25 with 1 GIG ram. OS - Tiger 10.4.1 . then i instaled DVD SP 4..but when i tried to RUN dvd sp4..i got this error message . can someone ave me & guide me to run the DVD SP 4 . Error msg : this software requires certain hardware or software which is missing. . prokit version 550 or Higher .by gev - DVD Studio Pro suggestion needed for DV Low res Offline to Online - 17 years agowe have huge amount of tapes ( docu project shot in PANA 102 with progressive setting ) and we are running out of HDD ..so looking for a offilne low res capture edit solution so that we can do ONLINE with DV quality in FCP5..What are the precaution one should keep in mind in this lowres offline to hires DV online . TIA . Post Edited (06-12-06 01:13)by gev - Café LA Re: FCP Studio / DV Footage /Progressive..offline possibilities - 18 years agoTHANKS ..that is the least i can say to u guys .by gev - Café LA Re: FCP Studio / DV Footage /Progressive..offline possibilities - 18 years agothanks for the responses . we have both iMAC 2Ghz and Powerbook . but we dont have huge space for about 100 minidv tape. and we dont have budget to buy that HDD . so we felt doing offline will be safer and saves money and then we can online with our HDD ..so we hope we gave the info too . i spoke about progreesive cause we would like to know is there any SPECIFIC issues while doing offline withby gev - Café LA |
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