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Re: how to convert the "subtitle track" to a text file? - 15 years agoLoren, thank you very much for this. I had tried to view the FCP file iself as text but couldn't. I confess I hadn't heard of XML before, and hadn't noticed the FCP option to export as XML. Wow! I see the subtitles in the XML file, and trust that Belle-Nuit Subtitler will finish the job. Thanks again. dcouzin Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA how to convert the "subtitle track" to a text file? - 15 years agoI've edited a project in FCP 5.1.2, and track V5 consists of outline text comprising the subtitles. Now I'd like to generate an .srt (or equivalent) text file for all the clips within V5. I pray that I don't have to cut and paste each piece of text from the viewer controls, and the in and out points too, to a page. That will take a full day and will surely introduce errors. Is FCP able toby dcouzin - Café LA DVD with subtitle options - 15 years agoSome DVDs offer subtitle options: several subtitle languages or no subtitles. I assume the subtitles are stored on the DVD separate from the picture -- otherwise the picture resolution would be much compromised for its having to be replicated on the DVD with the various options. How are the subtitles stored on the DVD? As a text file of some sort? Or as a picture file? I am preparing a Dby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agoThank you again strypes for the detailed reply. Previously I used FCP's Export > QuickTime Movie and Export > Using Quicktime Conversion to make 10-bit uncompressed. (For the first way I changed the FCP sequence settings to 10-bit uncompressed.) I found the first way to yield better color/tonality than the second way. Now I will try your suggestion to Export > Using Compressor.by dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agoThe 10-bit uncompressed QT is about 120 GB which I can deal with. I used this method when making a DigiBeta tape from the DV PAL project. The results were unwonderful. FCP needs to fudge the uncompressed data, and it seems to flatten the upper end of the tone scale. Also it introduced banding artifacts in some colored titles. Also it could not make the lower field dominant. DV PAL has lby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agostrypes, thanks for your continued advice. I happened to make a 7.0/9.0 DVD and I could see its superiority over the Toast8 DVD, especially as less noisy blacks. I agree that a 7.0/9.0 DVD invites problems with various players, and will next make a 6.8/8.0. The video is just 80 minutes. I'm exporting from FCP to Compressor and then using DVD Pro to mux and burn. I'll select "open GOP&quby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: It is stongly urged that you don't use Compressor Export inside Final Cut. - 16 years agoTo comment late on last year's strand. At issue is the way to make the best MPEG-2 compression with our tools. The strand doesn't support its title. It doesn't show that using Compressor export inside FCP is acually bad, that it yields inferior quality versus using Compressor outside FCP on an exported Quicktime file. The strand only supports, by impression after impression, that the MPEG-2 gby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agoThankyou Strypes. It worked! I also had to lay the imported .m2v onto track V1 and the imported .ac3 onto track A1. This yielded a playable the DVD with stereo sound. The picture is still noisy. I'm not sure the picture is better than a Toast8 DVD. This was the original question. I used bit rate settings 6.5 and 8.5 in Compressor, and this resulted in a 4.1 GB DVD. Do I dare to use somewhby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agoThanks, I can understand how exporting straight from FCP to Compressor without passing through a DV Quicktime movie might yield a better MPG-2 compression, but I don't know where your certainty comes that your encoding settings will be smarter than those of Toast 8. Setting bitrates seems the big deal, and there's much vague writing on it, but Toast will set them as high as possible subject to tby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Toast vs. Compressor & DVD Studio Pro - 16 years agoI'm making DVDs from an 80 minute DV-PAL Quicktime movie. Toast 8 has yielded only bad looking DVDs. The Quicktime movie is 16 GB and looks great so I don't see why a 4 GB DVD must look awful. I have Compressor 2.1 and DVD Studio Pro 4.1 but have so far been unable to make them work. Is there a simple tutorial for using them -- no menus, nothing fancy, just to make a DVD with a quality picturby dcouzin - DVD Studio Pro Re: Ben King's Comment on DV/HD color space? - 16 years agoThe rods of the retina have nothing to do with how we see video since (1) the rods are absent from the cherryspot (fovea) of the retina where we see high detail, and (2) the rods are bleached out at the luminance levels of videos. It is true that we see luminance by means of the rods, but only in twilight and night. We see luminance by means of the cones by day and when watching video. Thusby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Ben King's Comment on DV/HD color space? - 16 years agoColor space is the 3-dimensional realm of perceivable colors. In around 1800, Thomas Young figured out that there were too many colors for there to be a separate nerve for each color at each spot on the retina. He surmised that a color is the consequence of just three signals (as could be carried on three nerves). In around 1860, Maxwell demonstrated that every color could be matched by a sumby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Getting by without a reference Monitor - 16 years agoMay the voice of ignorance intrude? I doubt that a reference monitor is necessary for editing and color correcting. Almost all of color correction is relative. Provided that your monitor calibration isn't horribly wrong, good visual judgements of relative color are possible. The baby-settings in OS-X are sufficient for this. Another aspect of color correction is making images look good, or dby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Format conversion nightmare - 16 years agoThis discussion ignores that while NTSC DVDs play on almost all players, they don't look good on any of them because NTSC has poor color. Whatever equipment RyanT is using to make the video is capable of better color than that. So why not produce both NTSC and PAL disks so that at least the users in PAL countries will get a better show? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: minimizing scratch files after project completion - 16 years agoSuper. Thanks. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA minimizing scratch files after project completion - 16 years agoI have a FCP 5.1 project for which about 500 GB of scratch files were edited down to about 16 GB. Now I'd like to be able to save this, for possible minor re-edits, but using much less than 500 GB in disk space. (1) Is there a fool-proof way to sort the individual scratch files into those which were and those which weren't used in the edit? Then I'd discard the ones, if any, which weren't usedby dcouzin - Café LA Re: where is the sound in a movie DVD? - 16 years agoSorry Grafixjoe, it is strange. If you had two strands of silk woven together, you couldn't free one without freeing the other. (Yeah, if you had three strands woven together you might be able to free one and leave the other two together. Unlikely.) Video multiplexing involves time splicing. A few microseconds of video, then a smaller few of audio, etc. And you think there's nothin' strangeby dcouzin - Café LA Re: screen fonts - 16 years agoWindows has always let you choose the system font. As one new to Apple software, I find it oddly paternalistic. It imposes its style in what should be our tools. Since when do artists, or artisans, use "designer tools"? If I want to paint my hammer red I'll paint it red. (This never works perfectly -- the paint rubs off some.) So I recently bought a Samsung 30" monitor insteaby dcouzin - Café LA screen fonts - 16 years agoDoes FCP let you choose its screen font? Does OS-X let you? Thanks. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: where is the sound in a movie DVD? - 16 years agoI first tried Mac the Ripper. It made new .vob files from the old .vob files, but FCP again couldn't import audio from them. I next tried MPEG Streamclip. It failed in attempts export from the .vob files to DV, etc., but it succeeded in converting the .vob files to an mpeg QuickTime. QT plays this QT file fine, with its audio. But when I drag it (or import it) into FCP I get just a picture tby dcouzin - Café LA Re: where is the sound in a movie DVD? - 16 years agoI'll rip if I must. (Strange that FCP import can get the picture but not the sound out of the DVD.) Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA where is the sound in a movie DVD? - 16 years agoWith FCP I can import the picture from movie DVDs but not the sound. I do import>file and see two folders comprising the DVD: Audio_TS and Video_TS. Audio_TS is quite empty. Video_TS has several .bup, .ifo, .vob files. When Standard is elected for file type, only the .vob files are available. The .vob files import nicely as picture tracks. But I get no soundtracks. File sizes show thatby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Best format to use for copy and import of old footage - 16 years agoTo derekmok: "Garbage In, Garbage Out" is a slogan, no substitute for quantitative details. The questioner was definite that his/her output would be a DVD. Since you implied that DV is garbage, then surely MPEG2 is garbage, so your unquantitative lesson is finished, tout court. Uncompressed input with 30 times the information density of the intended output is overkill. Such huge rby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Best format to use for copy and import of old footage - 16 years ago10 bit uncompressed QuickTime for Standard Definition occupies about 1.5 Gigabytes per minute. The DVD output you contemplate occupies only about 0.05 Gigabyte per minute. So the uncompressed source is overkill. A nice compromise would be DV compressed QuickTime which occupies about 0.2 Gigabytes per minute. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Best format to use for copy and import of old footage - 16 years agoOf course you aren't obtaining video footage of Nazi Germany. You are obtaining a copy of a video transfer made by an unspecified optical method from what could be either 16 mm or 35 mm cine footage. Are you planning to analyze these films, aesthetically or in any detailed way, or are they background illustrations? Even as background illustrations, do you want your audience to appreciate thatby dcouzin - Café LA distorted movie stills - 16 years agoToday I discovered that all the jpegs I've been exporting from FCP projects from DV PAL sources have been distorted. I've sent around misleading movie stills. Sony decided to make its DV PAL camera pixels slightly unsquare. They are 16 units wide by 15 units high. I don't know or care why Sony did this, but now the FCP exported jpeg treats the pixels as square so the 1.33:1 original image appby dcouzin - Café LA Re: NTSC B & W in PAL? - 16 years agoRe: PAL-to-NTSC Posted by: BazinOz (IP Logged) Date: December 07, 2007 04:31AM You may find this a useful reference: Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: flipping between 5:4 and 4:3 - 16 years agoWow, CMD+J opens all that. Now QT does play the PAL and NTSC .mov files as 4:3. It makes sense. Thanks much. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: flipping between 5:4 and 4:3 - 16 years agoBK, I don't want square pixels. I want people to play it as 4:3 so it doesn't look ridiculous. Now if I hand people the QT .mov file and they use a QT player they'll see it as 5:4 and wrong. But when I simply Toast it onto a DVD, either Toast or the DVD player must know (from its being PAL or NTSC) to show it as 4:3. (I'm surprised QT doesn't know this, or have a facility for adjusting it.)by dcouzin - Café LA flipping between 5:4 and 4:3 - 16 years agoAm I flipping or is it flipping? The project which I've inherited was shot in PAL mini-DV with 720x576 pixels. I'm pretty sure the camera format was 4:3. If so the camera pixels weren't square. I don't know how the camera tapes were captured into FCP, but now when I go to play a captured tape QT shows a 5:4 image which is obviously distorted. Spherical objects look taller than wide. I caby dcouzin - Café LA |
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