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creating 16:9 menus?? - 17 years agoHi, Feature docu shot in HDV PAL. Distributing in PAL and NTSC. Want the menu to also display in 16:9. Can't seem to find the click that changes the display mode in DVDSP. AND, of course, wanting the final output menu frame to also be 16:9. Thank you, Benby Ben Ged Low - DVD Studio Pro Re: HDV PAL to HDV NTSC to NTSC DVD, best conversion??? - 17 years agoThank you Koz, I'm trying some Nattress tests right now. I'll post the results. Much appreciated..,. Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV PAL to HDV NTSC to NTSC DVD, best conversion??? - 17 years agoHi Mike, Thanks. I've been trying to reach Graeme by e-mail and phone for twenty four hours. He must be NOT working! Possibly having a 'life' beyond 'work'. Good for him. Not so good for me. I'm running three computers right now, trying to get a decent conversion. I finally decided to go for Graeme's conversion ... and the computer that is free needs two hours of 'updates'....by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV PAL to HDV NTSC to NTSC DVD, best conversion??? - 17 years agoHi Koz, Thank you kindly. ("Nattress Standards Conversion does a very credible job and it's fast. It doesn't do Motion Prediction, but there are ways to hide that." I was going to use the Nattress conversion. Are those 'ways' complicated, do I just do a 'field blend' before export?, where can I get info in a hurry about them? This 98 minute PAL show has to be an NTSC DVD by toby Ben Ged Low - Café LA HDV PAL to HDV NTSC to NTSC DVD, best conversion??? - 17 years agoJust completed a 104 minute HDV PAL docu. Needs to be an NTSC version for North America. I de-interlaced the HDV, exported to DVCPRO 50, then conformed it to 23.98 fps with Cinema Tools. And the audio is a quarter tone down in pitch. Is there a way to do something about this and NOT lose audio quality (tone)? Or. What is the best way to convert PAL to NTSC? Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Colour Correction - Canvas\preview monitor both 'jamming'? - 17 years agoHi Koz, G5 Tower dual 2.5 G with 4.5 Ram and a terrabyte and a half of memory. Latest versions of all software (5.0.4 for FCP Studio). This is my client's setup. We're at the completion end of a feature docu (104 minutes) and I don't want to propose we cross grade to the Intel version of FCP. Preview monitor and canvas window still freezing up. I've got two Apple Monitors coming today,by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Colour Correction - Canvas\preview monitor both 'jamming'? - 17 years agoHi Koz, I replaced the Quicktime 7.x App. I make doubly sure the canvas window isn't sized improperly. I plugged in another preview monitor (HP). I'm exporting finished sequences to a 'different' drive, than the one which contained the original media (which seems somehow to have solved the problem of being unable to actually export anything successfully). Because this last problem, a mby Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP & STP - copying plug-in data from one project to another in STP? - 17 years agoApologies. I know this is a FCP Forum. And I AM editing in FCP. Now want to do a sound mix in Soundtrack Pro. Not having any luck on the STP Forums. I have this dilemma. 104 minute feature docu. Broken into 7 sections. I want to sound edit each section separately (more manageable) as a project. I want to use the same track setup for each, the same EQ and filters for voices etc. A lot ofby Ben Ged Low - Café LA 2 versions of FCP installed on same computer, possible? - 17 years agoI'm cutting a show on the pre-Intel FCP, latest version, installed on the full edit suite. I want to do some extra work on my laptop, which has the Intel version of FCP installed, but need to use the prior version of FCP (to be able to move the project back and forth). Can I install the previous version of FCP (non-Intel) on my laptop SIMULTANEOUSLY with the Intel version, and just open wby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: *codec error* message while mastering HDV PAL? - 17 years agoHi Koz, I've got a terabyte on the drive I'm exporting to ... almost 500G free space. The system drive has 171G available. I wouldn't think it's a memory problem. I have been having problems with FCP - canvas window and preview monitor both freezing or acting strange as I'm doing the colour correcting. I've re-installed FCP. I've created a new project and imported the relevant clips aby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Colour Correction - Canvas\preview monitor both 'jamming'? - 17 years agoThanks gang, I'm trying all of the above. Things are a bit smoother ... I also created a new project and dragged over the clips\sequences from the old project. Still getting the occasional freeze up. No rainbow wheel spinning. FCP is still functioning. But canvas and preview window giving problems. Less now. I'm employing all of your suggested techniques. Seems to help to keep theby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Colour Correction - Canvas\preview monitor both 'jamming'? - 17 years agoFCP 5 (pre-Intel). Colour correcting. Using Range Check. Everything goes fine, then suddenly the HewlettPackard HD LCD preview monitor goes white, and the FCP canvas window (on the main HP HD LCD monitor) no longer registers the changes I'm making. If I run the clip on the timeline the canvas DOES show the alteration, sometimes the HP monitor even kicks in (sometimes stays white). But it's vby Ben Ged Low - Café LA *codec error* message while mastering HDV PAL? - 17 years agoHDV PAL (G5 dual 2.5, 4.5G Ram, FCP ver. 5.0.1) Trying to master a 104 minute feature documentary. I can export segments of the film, ten, twenty minutes, no problem. Every time I try to master the whole film I get a: 'codec error' message. There is lots of available memory on the hard drive. Any suggestions? Ben P.S. I've been exporting as a straight Quicktime Movie (Currentby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV to DVD (MPEG-2) - best technique?? - 17 years agoHi filmman, "You convert the HDV to uncompressed standard digital and then make a QT movie," Long time later. I've been dumping the HDV onto a DVCPRO50 timeline and outputting that way. By converting the HDV to uncompressed standard digital, do you mean exporting the HDV to an uncompressed standard format Quicktime and then dragging THAT QT into Compressor?by Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP & Sony Z1U - HDV to DV down convert - 18 years agoI've mastered the HDV show back to tape, using the Sony Z1U. I want to recapture the show as DV (to make a DVD), down converting with the Sony Z1U. But I can't get FCP and Sony to talk to each other when: FCP is set to DV NTSC Z1U is set to HDV (plus down convert) And if I set the Z1U to DV, it won't play the HDV tape of course. CAN IT BE DONE?: FCP (HDV) master to tape (Sony HDV) then reby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV to DVD (MPEG-2) - best technique?? - 18 years agoOne pass VBR didn't help much. Every compression I've tried has yielded weird responses ... jagged lines, doubling up of the interlace etc. etc. I'm mastering out to tape now, to a Sony Z1U ... but am having trouble re-capturing the HDV as DV ... because FCP and the camera won't communicate if FCP is set to DV and the Sony to HDV (even with the downcovert turned on). Aie, yie, yie.by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV to DVD (MPEG-2) - best technique?? - 18 years agoThank you Tom, I'd forgotten that, about the 2-pass VBR. I'll try another compression, 1-pass. And Nick, What's the menu setting (camera) that allows me to capture HDV as DV from the Sony Z1U? What is happening is that FCP won't recognize the camera if FCP is set to capture DV and the camera is running HDV. If I set the camera to DV, and it's got an HDV tape in it, it won't even run the tapby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: HDV to DVD (MPEG-2) - best technique?? - 18 years agoHi Shane, Got that. Straight to MPEG-2 in all the Compressor presets gets me a pretty bad DVD, weird artifacting, interlacing problems (frames seeming to double up). I've got a lot of time scaling, slow mo, fast action, in the half hour film. None of this translates very well to MPEG-2. Actually, even the 30 fps stuff looks ragged. The only thing I've found that is half working so far is ouby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP\HDV out to Sony HDV-Z1U?? - 18 years agoHi filmman, I did a 'print to video' and it works. It would be nice to go straight out as you suggest .. what do I set the A/V presets to? The FCP A/V presets? Or the Sony A/V presets? (I notice the audio and video playback selections in my FCP5 are greyed out for HDV. Is this normal?) Big question. I 'printed to video' to the Sony Z1. It worked. I connected a Sony HDV deck to the cameraby Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP\HDV out to Sony HDV-Z1U?? - 18 years agoI have no trouble capturing from the Sony Z1U, but I can't seem to get the Z1U to 'see' the FCP timeline firewire output ... so I can use the camera to 'master' the show to tape. Only thing odd I can see is that the: audio/video settings video & audio playback are greyed out But my assumption is that this function is for driving an HD monitor, and is not related to sending an output signaby Ben Ged Low - Café LA HDV to DVD (MPEG-2) - best technique?? - 18 years agoHi lafcpug, I'm looking for the latest consensus on the best technique to go from the FCP HDV timeline out to make a DVD master. Three I'm aware of: - dumping HDV onto a FCP DV timeline, and outputting through Compressor as DV to DVD? - outputting HDV to tape, recapturing as downconverted to DV, then out through Compressor as DV to DVD? - HDV straight through Compressor (but what codec??) toby Ben Ged Low - Café LA |
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