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Re: Printing Multiple DVDs - 18 years agoExcellent question. Now I am curious about this!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Project file won't open - 18 years agoIf at some point a project refuses to load, one thing you could try is (in the Finder) moving the last file you modified or added to another spot on your hard drive. Yes, DVD SP will complain about the missing asset, but you'll manage to open the project. Then you can try to re-link (likely to repeat the problem) or to re-do the offending element. As a begginner, I wouldn't want you to think thby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Stereo Sound - 18 years agoDVD Studio Pro doesn't show discreet audio channels as separate tracks. Instead, PCM (AIFF) or Dolby Digital (AC-3) files are single assets, that contain the stereo (PCM) or multi-channel information (Dolby) inside of them. If your source was stereo and you chose to export it as stereo, it will be stereo. You can always open the AIFF file in an audio application or Final Cut Pro to check channelby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Two Feature Questions about DVDSP4 - 18 years agoMark: If you Google a bit, you'll find out there are several DTS encoders for Mac. I could't recommend one, because I haven't used any of them. About the external preview, two comments: It's important to understand that the Firewire DV/HDV paradigm, while amazingly convenient in so many areas, isn't always a good approach for everything. Even if DVD SP allowed you to, you shouldn't use Fireby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: After Effects tutorials/Classes? Ken Stone? - 17 years agoGrafixjoe: I have to say that I completely understand Mike and I wasn't really expecting an AE forum here. There are places for each thing. This a wonderful resource about Apple Pro apps and I don't know if an AE forum would be at home here. The awful truth is that today Adobe and Apple are mostly competitors, not collaborators. And an AE forum in a Pro apps related site might be seen as a &quoby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: After Effects tutorials/Classes? Ken Stone? - 17 years agoI think it would be terrific if there was an AE forum here in LAFCPUG, if Mike finds its appropiate. I don't know if it fits with the site, because all forums so far are for Apple applications, right? It would be really cool, though. Post Edited (08-10-06 21:35)by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: After Effects tutorials/Classes? Ken Stone? - 17 years agoHello, Marla. "Moebius" was written and directed by Gustavo Mosquera R., who happens to be a co-worker of mine at this time. We're working on a TV project together. I'll see him tomorrow and let him know what you said. He'll be happy If you ever come here, let me know so we can drive you around All the bestby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: After Effects tutorials/Classes? Ken Stone? - 17 years agoOther than that, if anyone here needs help with After Effects (or if ever Mike wants to add an AE forum here and needs moderators for it) let me know. I've been using AE professionally for almost 10 years nowby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: After Effects tutorials/Classes? Ken Stone? - 17 years agoMarla: There's a series of books written by Trish and Chris Meyer. They are called "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" (Volumes 1 and 2) and "After Effects in Production". They are outstanding, not just for commanding the application, but also for how they get into the underlying concepts. Really deep and yet explained in an easy to understand way. All three books coby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: misconceptions about using Compressor 2 - why I like it. - 17 years ago<<<Did you know that Compressor is just a GUI interface for Quicktime?>>> Not for Quicktime, but for the Qmaster thing, ie, the background/network rendering technology. That's why early versions of Compressor would refuse to submit batchs because of Ethernet conflicts, even before Compressor could do network rendering! It was there even before it was there BTW, I tried recentby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT: Telly Comes to LA - 17 years agoGood luck on your move, Kevin!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AVCHD - 17 years agoYes, Shane, it is a consumer format apparently. That's more related to the way they're positioning it. On paper, the specs could suggest a *possibility* of much beter quality than HDV. If it only comes in $1,000 flavors of course that theoretical possibility is irrelevant. I read that the first Sony cameras will only allow 12 Mbps. Maybe they're considering the higher end, 24 Mbps variant for laby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA AVCHD - 17 years agoAre you guys aware of a new consumer/prosumer format developed by Sony and Panasonic (those two together!) called AVCHD? While it looks pointed towards the consumer/handycam market, it uses the marvelous AVC (H.264) codec with a max bit rate of 24 Mbps. Theoretically, H.264 at 24 Mbps could be much, much better than HDV's old MPEG-2 at 25 Mbps, right? Canon and Adobe are among thel list of supporby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: FCP on MacBook? - 17 years agoThank you. If you consider how hard it is for me to speak or write in English (some friends from LAFCPUG could notice that when we met at NAB this year!), i feel really happy you find it beautifully writtenby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: FCP on MacBook? - 17 years agoHello (Hi Kevin!) I think this (rather cynical) post may shed some light about my experience with Apple consumer laptops and Apple Pro applications: * When FCP came out in 1999, it required a 300 Mgz G3 processor. The iBook available at that time had a 300 Mhz G3 processor. Great. But someone made sure it had no Firewire ports andit had an 800x600 screen. Not very useful for FCP. Then, a secondby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: After Effects degrading DVCPRO HD material - 17 years agoThere's a well known issue with Blackmagic codecs and AE, related to gamma shifts. I understand it's a conflict between these codecs and Apple''s uncompressed ones. I'd check with BMD to see if recent drivers solved the issue. This was widely discussed in some forums last year and BMD was aware of it. Not related to AE itself, which processes images with amazing uncompressed quality. Its' true thby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: 1920x1080 says 1440x1080? - 17 years agoThere are some more bad news, I'm afraid Your footage is not even 1440x1080. That's the HDV format's nominal pixel grid. The actual pixel count from the CCDs is always quite below that figure - the camera's internal processing software upsamples it to 1440x1080. So you see, in just two posts you went from 1920x1080 to maybe half of that. The good news? The Canon XL-H1 raw pixel count seems to beby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: DVD Image/Icon????? - 17 years agoGood question. I don't think you can do it, because DVDs have an UDF format structure, instead of HFS+ (Mac) or NTFS/FAT (PC). Icons, folder apperance and such things are related to to invisible files on those disk formats. Even if it possible, it would have to be either a PC or Mac icon. I would like to know if it's possible at all. Before the age of DVD, Toast allowed to create a temporary/viby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Motion / FCP not working together??? - 17 years agoLooks like you lost the particular Quicktime component that enables FCP and other applications to understand Motion projects as if they were video files. A re-install should do the trick. As I said in another forum, make sure you delete any Motion install receipts on your Library folder, so that the installer really re-installsby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Crap quality MPG2 DVD Pro - 18 years agoHey, Greg! Graeme's plug-in is absolutely amazing. Really, really useful. Graeme will correct me if this is not true, but if I remember well, his findings were that his technology was about 40 times faster for what he called just a bit lower quality. I would say more than a bit (because when Compressor does it well, you can't tell the converted file from the original at all!) But still Graeme'sby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Crap quality MPG2 DVD Pro - 18 years agoI haven't done it myself. You manage the whole thing with the Qadministrator application. This concept of render farms is extremly important in 3D and compositing apps. All of them have some sort of network rendering. Even more, for 3D work, there are render farms that you can rent and use over the Internet! One of them is called "Render King" Anyway, I didn't see the need for distribby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Crap quality MPG2 DVD Pro - 18 years agoGuys: Let me just bring some info which has been discussed over and over in the DVD SP forum.All the information is there, if you just scroll down the messages * Compressor is the highest quality software encoder on the Mac. And quite close to the best software encoders on any platform, period (like TMPEG). You only need to learn to set it up properly. Compression gurus like Ben Wagonner haby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Natress Effects/DVD export revisited - 18 years agoStill, lower field first. Graeme's Film Effects offes a great way of modifying the *perception* of motion. So much so, it looks quite close to true progressive sources. But it's still technically interlaced, and it still has some minor visual fields information left. So, you should still export as lower field first (or easier, just use Current Settings in the Export Window).by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: down-converting in FCP - 18 years agoHello, Mox. The term "downconversion" applies to converting HD material to SD. That is not your case. You only need to add a pull-down pattern to your 24P SD material, which by the way was the original situation and was removed when you brought it into FCP (because all NTSC material is originated using 29.97, and then the additional frames are removed for 24P). I have no idea how you adby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: dragging clips to timeline without rendering - 18 years agoiMovie works with DV stream clips, while Final Cut Pro uses Quicktime files (with DV codec when applicable). Although they have essentially the same codec, they are different formats. I imagine you could export Quicktime DV files from iMovie, or ask FCP to do a batch conversion. Heck, you know what? You could batch convert the clips using Tiger's Automator and Quicktime Player!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Will FCP Universal run on a new mini? - 18 years agoPure speculation of course... Traditionally, FCP has been quite easy in terms of system requirements. The current version will run on something like a 400 Mhz G4 computer. So it's possible that it will run on the Mac Mini, especially the Core Duo model which in pure processor power is very near the low end MacBook Pro or iMac. Motion and DVD SP are a different story, since the Mini has a ratherby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: importing photoshop problems - 18 years agoWow, Greg. That's really old (pre Photoshop CS) information That procedure was normal back in the Pre CS days, when Photoshop didn't support non-square pixel aspects. The last two versions can do that with no problems. Nowadays you just need to make sure you pick the DV NTSC preset in Photoshop. When you do that, you create a 720x480 pixels comp with DV NTSC pixel aspect ratio (0.9).by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: JVC GY-HD100 and Final Cut Pro: 24p to 35mm WORKFLOW SOLVED!!! - 18 years agoAlso, it's not limited to AJA cards. In fact, since you're actually doing "old school" digitizing though analog inputs, the original format is kind of irrelevant as far as the software is concerned.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Filmlook - 18 years agoHello, Siep. Yes, you can do a lot with the color correction tools. But bear in mind that one of the most important aspects is the perception of motion, which is something outside the scope of CC. Nowadays we're not talking in this regard so much about Film Look (this concept is a bit dated IMO) as we talk about true progressive scanning. There are several video cameras that record images iby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA |
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