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Re: Uncompressed video? - 18 years agoI'm glad you find it useful!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Uncompressed video? - 18 years ago" just imported the Motion files into the browser, inserted them in the timeline and rendered. Now I'm wondering if I should go back and export them per above, and then bring them in?" No, Chris, no need to export anything. The ability to import a Motion project into FCP is absolutely fantastic. It basically means that will be rendered at whatever setting/quality your sequence is in. Bby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Uncompressed video? - 18 years agoChris: You can't put uncompressed video on a DVD. At least not on a standards based disc you expect to work on DVD players. One thing that you can do, however, is make your MPEG-2 strean from an uncompressed or slightly compressed source. Not only you "can", but that's what professional encoding usually requires to get that special quality encoding. Since MPEG-2 is such a heavily compby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpeg-2 conversion time? - 18 years agoUsing Compressor from FCP does take ages. You could die of boredom or despair Not just the compression stage, but also setting it up is quite unresponsive. it's related to the way FCP has to feed the information to Compressor. The best workflow IMO is exportig either a self contained or reference movie, and then use Compressor to convert that into a MPEG-2 stream for video, and an AC-3 stream fby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Mac Book Pro - 18 years agoNo, they won't run at all. They will probably even refuse to install, since they specifically search for an Altivec unit (G4 or G5 processors) in order to install. Days from now, Apple will release Intel Mac compatible versions of those applications. But the updates will be available for current versions only, ie, you can upgrade from FCP 5 or DVD Studio Pro 4 but not with older versions. I undby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: AE 6.5 integration with DVD SP 3 - 18 years agoThere is no "integration" in any special way. You just have to understand the way highlight maps are used for roll over creation, and once you do, you just export from AE a Quicktime movie and a suitable highlight map. It's a very manual approach, but very powerful. That's the kind of thing where the deepest way of creative control about your menus animation and look is. Motion does havby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: UnCompressed Video Capture card? - 18 years agoThe K-Box is not a capture card, but an accesory for a capture card Kind of when you go to a bar and you read in the menu how much it costs to add chocolate to your coffee. It's not an item you buy per se! The cheapest uncompressed capture cards are made by Aurora and Decklink. They cost about $600. But your Canon camera is not uncompressed to begin with, but rather uses DV compression. Whileby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Simulator Question - 18 years agoThe Simulator has track skip buttons (not available in "real" remotes) which instead of going forward just go to the end of the track and perform the end jump action. They're big. You can't miss them.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Compressor Size/Frame Rates - 18 years agoThis is one of the most common question in web forums. Nothing to worry about. Quicktime is just switching the view aspect ratio, so that NTSC video doesn't look squeezed. It's just a viewing thing. The video is still 720x480. As for the 24P thing, 23.98 fps is the actual frame rate for NTSC compatible progressive video. The players repeats frames (adds pull down) so it is compatible with 29.97by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Chapter Markers & FF/RW - 18 years ago1) You're probably confusing the ff/rew buttons with the chapter skip buttons. Very common mistake. Take a closer look at your remote 2) You have to set them as chaper markers (edit the marker in FCP and press the chapter marker button). Make sure you set the export options to include DVD SP data.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: buttons - 18 years agoIf I undertand correctly, you just want a feather to turn on when the viewer selects each button, right? James: Let me say this. The DVD SP idea of "button graphics" is mostly a metaphor for beginners or quick projects. Behind the scenes, it's using the overlay/highlight method every DVD application uses. And it allows you do that by yourself, in a more controlled way. So, if you're seby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Repication or duplication? - 18 years agoQuality obviously is going to be just as good, that's what it's called duplication. Quality is determined by the encoding stage, not the manufacturing step. What won't be as good is the compatibility rate. This is, a replicated disc will play in nearly all DVD players, while a duplicated disc has a compatiblity rate of about 70-80 per cent. It's getting better as the installed base of players isby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: any pros,cons,pitfalls using dvd@access? - 18 years ago"I'm wondering if this recommendation is different in cases where you only have something like a pdf (not weblinked) that you'd want to have available for any user - pc, mac, set top or computer playback - to open and read without linking to any site. Maybe this will be obvious when I get a bit deeper into dvdsp4". Nope. It doesn't really change anything, because you know what? Onceby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: GOP open or closed - 18 years agoHal: To tell you how important this is for me, let me say I live in a country where PAL is the standard for video/tv production, but NTSC is the defacto standard for DVDs! About 99 per cent of the stuff has to be converted. Imagine how painful is thatby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: GOP open or closed - 18 years ago"I've not used Compressor to do a standards conversion since I first attempted it in V1. I didn't much care for the output from that, but I'd be interested to hear from others who have done it and find it OK". Hey Hal. It was recently discussed in Cafe LA. The motion compensated/optical flow based standards conversion quality in Compressor 2 is probably beyond any other software tool.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: any pros,cons,pitfalls using dvd@access? - 18 years agoHello, Chris. Pros (not that many): * Doesn't require an additional authoring application. It's built into DVD SP. * Although it requires users to enable it on the DVD player application, it works quite reliably on OS X Macs. Cons: * You have to install DVD@cess support on Windows Computers from the DVD. And still it won't be compatible with a number of software DVD players. *It doesn't work aby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVDSP4 w/ external NTSC monitor - 18 years agoI was just kidding, Robert.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVDSP4 w/ external NTSC monitor - 18 years agoThe X800 has video out, kind of. At least for DVD SP. You just need a $20 cable (but you will loose the ability to use a second Mac monitor while using it). The 9200 won't work for this purpose, because DVD SP's preview is based on AGP or newer technology. It won't help with Motion either, except maybe freeing the main AGP card from having to drive a second computer monitor. Robert, didn't you fby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP5 to Compressor problems - 18 years agoFrank: IMHO, your friend spoke more as an Apple sales representative than anything else. Of course buying more computers is a good idea for Apple But on a single (dual processor or dual core) computer, from a Quicktime movie, Compressor makes 2 pass VBR at 3x real time, which is really fast. Actually faster than most software encoders. It used to be 2x real time or faster with Compressor 1.x, bby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP5 to Compressor problems - 18 years agoHello, Justin. As I said many times before, I believe many users who are disappointed with Compressor, are actually (without knowing it) disappointed with the reality of MPEG-2 compression. I completely understand it, since we as consumers were told that DVD is a top notch medium. If your source is compressed, has a non-matching color sampling scheme (DV NTSC is 4:1:1 and MPEG-2 is 4:2:0), it'sby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP5 to Compressor problems - 18 years ago"Compressor 2 is definitely better than both. MegaPEG is especially weak - it doesn't even have a proper 2-pass mode. BitVice isn't bad, but can't hold up to high motion like Compressor 2, and is a lot slower to boot."by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP5 to Compressor problems - 18 years agoJason (and of course everybody else). Exporting to Compressor from FCP may be a fancy feature, but we have known since that appeared that it takes really, really longer than encoding a Quicktime movie from Compressor. Basically FCP has to render each frame and pass it to Compressor to encode. When you do that in a 2 pass encode, well, it takes a lot of time. You just export a reference or self-cby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DTS & AC3 w/DVD SP - 18 years agoDVD SP supports the use of DTS files, but doesn't come with a DTS encoder (which costs over $1,000). "What would be the correct way to make a true DTS and Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 and 6.1 (DTS) surround sound file for playback?" As you imagine, impossible question to answer in a few lines. But in the most reductionist sense, you need to do the mix in an audio application that includes sby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: how to make optional music track? - 18 years ago"(in other words, do i have to choose between hearing one track or the other, or can i layer two tracks and hear both at once like in final cut)". Yes, you would have to choose. Because even if you mapped the music to other audio channels, they will either not come from the proper speakers in a 5.1 system, or be downmixed with the rest of the channels on an a stereo system. "theby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Where are there cool templates? - 18 years agoI could't care less either. In the past DVD SP allowed you to import iDVD themes as long as the DVD SP version was newer than iDVD. They didn't update that feature lately, so I guess the last themes you can probably import are iDVD 3 or 4. Beyond iDVD themes, even DVD SP templates are there to help you get started. Who wants to use a professional DVD design and authoring application to use pre-maby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: kona v. decklink extreme - 18 years agoThey are very similar. If a personal opinion can help, then I feel the differences are more in software rather than hardware. Blackmagic adds important new features three or four times a year, and AJA does that more like once a year. Examples of this are the Photoshop export and import plug-ins, which are free for Decklink but require commercial software on AJA (or not available at all for importby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: A.Pack oh A.Pack where for arth thou - 18 years agoHey, J. Every DVD preset group in Compressor 2 includes a preset for Dolby 2.0, is that is what you need.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Looping - 18 years agoJust make the End Jump of the track point to itself.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: No Apack - 18 years agoA.Pack is gone for good. Its' functionality is now part of Compressor 2. Notice that each DVD Preset Category has an AC-3/Dolby preset in it. For stereo AC-3 it's much easoer now, as you don't have to assign channels manually - Compressor does it for you. You still need that for 5.1 or any other multi-channel configuration. Unfortunately, there isn't now a fast way to test the AC-3 files, other tby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Other DVD programs? - 18 years agoYes, Jay, I also believe DVD SP is way above Encore It does support video out, but it does it through Firewire DV, which being such a different compression scheme to MPEG-2, it's "getting an image to a monitor" more than "monitoring" in the sense of getting a reliable output. Apple seems to be aware that it's not really a solution (why they don't do it through Decklink or AJAby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro |
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