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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Quality compromise? - 15 years agoAll you are doing is copying the Video_TS and the (blank) Audio_TS folders. Toast can easily make copiesby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Slow firewire 800 transfer speeds - 15 years agoFirewire 800 Mbps has no Magic over 400 Mbps. That is the theoritical bus speed, but since what is inside every firewire drive is an IDE/ATA 3.5" drive, the actual transfer speeds are subject to the actual drive transfer capabilities. Depending on the manufacturer of the drive. most IDE drives can only top out at about 50 MB/sec. (That is 50x8 or 400 Megabits per second) Older drives wereby John Foley - Café LA Re: Run Time - 15 years agoAll video, menus and audio must fit in the 4.37 GB of a DVD-5. In cases where that is not possible then going DVD-9 (dual/double layer) is appropriate. Menu's generally take up very little actual space as they are usually jpgs. It's the MPEG-2 video and audio. BTW - That is also why .ac3 Dolby audio is recommended for DVD's.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD SP 3 on Leopard - won't burn - 15 years agoI would check to see that this may be a Quicktime version issue. We know that FCP 4 will not work on Leopard and I suspect this is the same thing, as DVD SP 3 was in same time frame as FCP 4.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Run Time - 15 years agoNo the difference between 4.37 and 4.7 is the same as initializing a 250 GB hard drive and only getting 225GB of usable space. It has to do with the way a computer calculate a megabyte of bits. Disk manufacturers insist that a megabyte is 1000x 1000 bytes. Computers calculate storage sizes in 2's complement math (IE: 1-2-4-8-16-32-64...) This gives you 1024 x 1000 bytes to a megabyte. lessby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Run Time - 15 years agoHow about adding the total time up? How else would you get that figure? Just be sure you understand that there is really only 4.37 GB of actual data storage on a DVD-5 disc, not 4.7GB as advertised on the package. You can usually get up to 2 hours of quality video/audio onto a DVD-5.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: For outdoor shooting, can most sunlight problems be corrected in Final Cut Studio? - 15 years agoTo reiterate the answer above, there are some thing you can do if the scene is in full sun light but generally the better you plan in shooting, the better the end result will be. I recently edited a 70 minute music set shot with three DV cameras. The stage lighting was different when looking from stage left that from stage right. Bad color lights abounded and all I could do was to color correcby John Foley - Color Re: Need recommendation: Iomega 500GB - 15 years agoJust for clarification - journaling is a way for UNIX to "recover" from a crash, more quickly. Since when the boot drive is active and if the operating systems sees a problem, UNIX will try to recover and possibly reboot itself using the journal files to speed up reboot time. So, Do not journal any other drive except the boot drive of a UNIX operating systemby John Foley - Café LA Re: OT_SuperMeet - 15 years agoBut, were there even questions about the future of DVD Studio at the SuperMeet?by John Foley - Café LA Re: OT_SuperMeet - 15 years agoIs there no hope that we will ever see high def BluRay authoring in DVD Studio? The original HD-DVD was not even realistic as you could never buy an HD-DVD burner??by John Foley - Café LA Re: Max Length of HD material on SD Burner - 15 years agoThat sorta' depends on the type of content. HDV content is similar to DV in size, but HVCPRO HD would be slightly larger. DVD Studio Pro only allows for a very basic HD-DVD format which is now defunct.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Auto Pause? - 15 years agoThe only way to have it "hold" on the last frame of the video, would be to get a still of that frame and apply it to a menu. After a jump back to that menu. Very unsophisticated, because the DVD Spec does not support pauses in the playback stream. Using the remote you can pause the playback of a DVD and use the Play button to continue playout. That's about as close as you can get onby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Burn Build or Format Confusion - 15 years agoThe Build command does not do any more compressing as DVD Studio Pro is a place to assemble assets. The Build command only muxes the contents of the .m2v and .ac3 files into proper format that goes onto a DVD Movie disc. The Format command should say BURN, but all it does is takes the finished Video_TS and "blank" Audio_TS folders and "burns" them onto a DVD-R or +R media blanby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Using Sorenson Squeeze with DVDSP (final cut studio) - 15 years ago1. is it possible to export from FCP timeline to Squeeze directly? No, it is not integrated in FCP workflow. 2. Base on experience, how would you all rate squeeze in comparison to compressor? I use Squeeze primarily for web video that are not H.264. 3. Video quality-wise, how does squeeze match up? I've heard people said compressor is not good enough for the hollywood standard. Theby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Dolby encoding: 2 sec of silence at start? - 15 years agoAs far as I know - using Compressor with AC3, just takes in what you give it and puts out the Dolby compressed equivalent.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Apple and NAB - 15 years agoAs previously mentioned - Apple isn't going to NAB this year.by John Foley - Café LA Re: To dV or not to dV - 15 years ago"Now, a word about "color space". In the old SD days, 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 had absolute meaning and direct correlation to the picture quality (luminance and color resolution). In the case of HD, 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 are relative. Thus, these ratios have no "real" meaning anymore. Who's he trying to kid? Color space sure does have a real meaning when doing keying orby John Foley - Café LA Re: OT: Beta to HD-DVD - 15 years agoSure would - if only HD-DVD weren't DEAD!by John Foley - Café LA Re: brightness and movement added after build in DVDSP4 - 15 years agoYou forgot to mention the bit-rate encoded format. A high bit-rate encoded .m2v will play on any computer but not on all set-top DVD players. As far as the brilliance goes, unless you view the DVD playback on a CRT monitor before burning , the LCD screen will not match a CRT for luminance. You can not judge what it will look like on an LCD screen. Gotta look at on the end delivery system.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Burn Problems - 15 years agoI can't answer THAT question, but - I finally got into doing dual layer DVD's a few months ago and I ordered 25 Dual layer (-R) media. I tried using them on four different burners and ever one would spit out the media after a few seconds of "looking" at it. I then tried Double layer (+R) and they worked. These are all different versions of the Pioneer CD/DVD=+RW drives. Very strangeby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Layered Menu selection - 15 years agoSince DVD Authoring is supposed to be used for set top playback using the remote, any other playout on a computer is open to the DVD player application of that computer. No where in the DVD Spec does it call for mouse overs and mouse clicking a menu button. That can only happen on a computer.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio - 15 years agoit all depends on the encode bit-rate you choose before bringing the .m2v and .aiff or .ac3 files into DVD Studio Pro as assets. The lower the bit-rate - the smaller the file.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: NEED TO REINSTALL OS - HELP IN MOVING FILES - 15 years agoUse CarbonCopy Cloner application to copy files in tact. There are "hidden" files that drag/drop will not copy. With CCC you can clone the entire drive or copy individual folders or files.by John Foley - Café LA Re: Dual layered DVD burning - 15 years agoYou can burn a Dual/Double layer disc in DVD SP 4. You need to set a point at which the laser crosses between top and bottom layers in the application. All Set Top DVD players have played properly prepared Dual layer (-R) DVD's for a very long time. Double layer (+R) came much later and only the players built in the last 4-5 years play both Dual and Double layer DVD'sby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Building in DVD PRO--get an Internal Muxer Error when send to Build - 16 years agoIt seems to me that having 16 tracks in DVD SP plus audio would run the bit-rate through the "roof" - so to speak. The whole goal in DVD production is to have the least data possible for a great build-Muxer operationby John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Question about loading FCP Studio II to Mac Book laptop - 16 years agoI have been running FCP Studio (1) on my MacBook Pro for some time now, and I am planning on upgrading to FC Studio 2. I don't believe there is any problem running this on a MBP. Obviously, the 17" is much better screen resolution for the entire application.by John Foley - Café LA Re: URGENT HELP Needed Compressing 24 fps file to DVD m2v - 16 years agoI believe that you can not use 24P on a DVD. DVD's are NTSC or PAL. There are no variants of 25(PAL) or 29.97(NTSC) available on a standard DVD using.m2v If we ever get to BluRay then that will change.by John Foley - DVD Studio Pro Re: Where is the MPEG2 Coded in FCP 6? - 16 years agoAs I understand it- Compressor is just a GUI control interface built on top of Quicktime. Since QT is the basis for all the video codec oriented apps, it makes sense to me.by John Foley - Café LA |
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