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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Need help exporting DV to DVD beautifully- without Compressor (broken beyond repair) - 12 years agoI didn't realize that. Thanks so much for the help!by spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Need help exporting DV to DVD beautifully- without Compressor (broken beyond repair) - 12 years agoThanks. I have been using DVD StudioPro for a long time. But DVD Studio Pro uses Compressor for encoding and Compressor is not working on my system.by spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Need help exporting DV to DVD beautifully- without Compressor (broken beyond repair) - 12 years agoPoor choice of words on my part. Yes, I know rip vs. burn have been searching with the correct terminology. To re-state my original quandry: I have a low budget project already over budget. My Compressor is broken. And I cannot re-install it. I have a 12 Gigabyte QT file that needs to be compressed as high quality as possible so I can burn to DVD and send to the duplicator. I don't trust thby spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Need help exporting DV to DVD beautifully- without Compressor (broken beyond repair) - 12 years agoYou are kind to reply. I followed your advice and did a new export, Uncompressed. It looks great. Trouble is, it's too big (12 G) for Toast to handle in their drag-and-drop compressor. Assuming that's the issue - it says it's missing a codec. Tried updating Compressor and FCPro but to no avail. Seems like all the compressors out there are ripping FROM DVDs, not to DVD. Anyone know of a gooby spitfire72 - Café LA Need help exporting DV to DVD beautifully- without Compressor (broken beyond repair) - 12 years agoHi. Having trouble getting a good looking DVD from my FCP file. It's a 7minute re-work of a super low-budget video I shot on DVCam a few years back and edited in FCP. I can't use Compressor to export to m2V as I have a persistent "background process" problem. I tried all the steps long ago and though it fixed it briefly once, it reverting to causing trouble. I gave up. Now, 3 yearsby spitfire72 - Café LA Re: QT Contrast Filter causing Flicker! - 15 years agoThanks for the quick reply. Let me explain...I haven't left FCP - no compression at all. By Quicktime I meant the folder by that name in the Effects folder. Should I avoid the Brightness/Contrast option altogether? What do you mean by "key the filter"? I"m looking at my waveform/vectroscope of the original clip and it looks ok, though I'm not accustomed to using them. Here'sby spitfire72 - Café LA QT Contrast Filter causing Flicker! - 15 years agoI have some dull, dark footage I need to boost a bit with the Quicktime Brightness (+3) and Contrast(+15) but it is producing a flicker in one of the channels it looks like. It's apparent at the end of this clip each time I render it and when I boost the contrast at all. Any ideas? I'm on a terrible deadline. The Bezier filter doesn't have the nuance of the QT - in fact it's contrast adjustby spitfire72 - Café LA combining drop-frame with non-drop-frame footage - 15 years agoHi. I know the answer is somewhere in the FAQs, but I can't find it in this heat. I have DV footage shot and captured at 29.97 and motion graphics from Google Earth that were exported at 30fps. Eveything looks fine until I try to compress for DVD and interlacing and jittering happens. If I assume it's the timebase conflict, how do I rectify it? If I try to adjust the timebase in the sequenceby spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoThanks for your thorough tutorial. An eerily simple solution seems to be just exporting with "maintain aspect ratio" with crop checked, though I'm getting black bands on either side. But the footage in both the animation and DV looks normal. I'll see how far I get with this series of tests.by spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoThank you for your responses. I'm an out of practice filmmaker always trying to catch up. I am combining DV footage with graphics exported from Google Earth Pro (20% of the video is DV footage, 80% is the GE animation). The highest res export I had available from Google Earth Pro was Animation, millions+, 720x486. I also have some PSD files in the timeline, but I converted those to DV beforeby spitfire72 - Café LA Re: Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoI'm using FCP 5.1.4 If I upgrade today would it solve my problems? I just want the footage to look consistent and I can't figure out how to deal with it in one sequence. Should I export the DV footage at the dimensions of the graphics with maintain aspect ratio un-checked and then re-import? I'm kinda confused and running out of time. It's eventually going on the web and on DVD. Thank youby spitfire72 - Café LA Combining footage with different pixel aspect ratios - 15 years agoHi. Tons of posts about pixel aspect issues, but can't find one with my question. I am combining footage that is equal parts square pixel and DV non-square. One has to be sacrificed for the other it seems upon export. I have been advised by an animator to manually squish or stretch the footage to compensate. But this just doesn't seem right. Is there a preset for this compensation? Shouldby spitfire72 - Café LA using Google Earth in FCP and it's SUPER slow - 15 years agoHi. I don't usuually work with motion graphics, esp. not in FCP, but I am trying to edit some QT exports from Google Earth (animation codec) with some regular dv video. I've rendered the imported (Google Earth) footage in the timeline, but anytime I touch it to trim, play, etc. the spinning beachball shows up and I have to wait 20 seconds to make my next move. I can easily scrub other footageby spitfire72 - Café LA |
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