• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  adding mpeg2 on a timeline

  Posted by Antonio Atzei on April 19, 2008 at 4:07 am

  I have a project (all stills) ready to add the soundtrack. How can I add a clip from a dvd preserving the original settings?

  thanks in advance

  Antonio Atzei

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  Antonio Atzei replied 18 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Michael Sacci

  April 19, 2008 at 4:30 am

  Mpeg2 is a delivery codec and would have to be render to something else to work in FCP.

  Don’t understand your workflow here, why are you adding a soundtrack to mpeg2 in FCP to begin with. Are you going back to a DVD? Can you give more detail on what you are trying to accomplish.
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  David Roth weiss

  April 19, 2008 at 4:30 am

  [Antonio Atzei] “How can I add a clip from a dvd preserving the original settings?”

  You need to use something like streamclip to transcode to a QT file that is the same as whatever the project setting is that you’ve been cutting.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

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  Antonio Atzei

  April 19, 2008 at 5:41 am

  Michael
  Alopogise for my poor explanation.
  I have to prepare a DVD from a compilations of Stills (high fashion shows). The audio/soundtrack will go in once it’s all over and done. I have been asked if was ok to add 3 dvd’s (very short) of fashion shows shoot in Milan.
  At this stage I have a timeline ready with all the stills aprox length 30 min.
  The sequence it’s set as HDV and the photo’s look fantastic
  Is there a better solution to keep the highest quality of the photos and if I get this dvd’s of the Milan fashion shows in time add them also in the timeline?

  Txs
  Antonio atzei

  BABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
  SYDNEY
  POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
  5.5GB RAM
  1 TB OF MEMORY.
  FCS 2
  AJA KONA LH
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  Antonio Atzei

  April 19, 2008 at 5:45 am

  David

  Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll download the program a.s.a.p. … the only thing missing are the dvd’s

  Txs
  Antonio Atzei

  BABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
  SYDNEY
  POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
  5.5GB RAM
  1 TB OF MEMORY.
  FCS 2
  AJA KONA LH
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  David Roth weiss

  April 19, 2008 at 3:45 pm

  [Antonio Atzei] “The sequence it’s set as HDV and the photo’s look fantastic”

  Antonio,

  I’m not sure why you chose HDV if you’re not actually editing any HDV video… HDV is very processor intensive and also highly compressed. Next time you should consider editng on a ProRes timeline from the start, but when you’re done editing everything this time, change the Quicktime Video Settings to ProRes under Sequences – Settings menu and rerender the entire sequence. That will keep your stills, text and graphics at a much higher 422 color space.

  David

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

  A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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  Antonio Atzei

  April 20, 2008 at 1:26 am

  David
  Yes the HDV was something I did in a hurry to check the photos. And as you suggested now I have the timeline settings as prores422 everything looks great!
  Thank you again fot your help

  ciao

  Antonio Atzei

  BABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
  SYDNEY
  POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
  5.5GB RAM
  1 TB OF MEMORY.
  FCS 2
  AJA KONA LH

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