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Multiple HD clips… better workflow?
I’m shooting high school football games in 720p 60fps with my HVX-200. I have 9 clients to do separate videos for. Each video will be the edited footage of the game with the player’s number/name/position at the beginning and end of the game footage and put to a DVD to give to them.
Because each video is specific to the player, each one will have to be exported,encoded and burned as its own sequence instead of just making one master disc and making 8 copies. I’m working with a Macbook Pro (OSX 10.6, 2.6 Dual Intel, 4gb RAM), FCP 6 to edit the P2 clips and if i export as Quicktime movie, the file is around 9Gb.
Now after this step is where i’m looking for a better workflow. The last game i worked on I exported using Compressor to get the footage into H.264 format (DVD-HD- Best Quality 60m setting) just to save time when i would have to export all 9 sequences but still have good image quality. I found out the hard way (and after reading it soon after) that H.264 is not an editing format. Since the deadline was drawing closer and couldn’t wait 3 hours for another Compressor job, I had to work with it and put titles around the clip and then encode then burn using Toast 8.
Can anyone give me some advice on which formats or Compressor settings i should be working with on a project like this? I’ve been pulling my hair out all weekend trying to find a smarter way to approach this.
Thanks in advance…
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I may not understand you completely, but if you’re simply putting a different title on the head and tail of a video (with the rest of the footage the same), why not simply put the kid’s name, position and number on a DVD menu with a start button. When the video ends loop it back to the menu.
John
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That’s a great idea. I’ve been so frustrated trying to come up with a better way to do this that I didn’t even think to simply add the player info to the actual DVD instead of the game footage.That would save me a ton of time with not having to export all 9 sequences individually. I’m opening up DVD SP now to start working on it. Thank you so much John 🙂
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