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Client wants HD mov files on DVD-R: easy?
The client wants to edit the DVCPro-HD footage themselves, but doesn’t use our tape format. What’s the simplest, fastest way to give the client these HD shots on DVD-R’s? I’m thinking, just export an HD reference movie from the timeline, unchanged, and drag-drop that onto the DVD-R that’s sitting on my desktop. Obviously, have to know how long the clips are, to fit the capacity of the disk. What am I missing? Is there a better *fast* way?
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[Mark Suszko] “ust export an HD reference movie from the timeline”
Reference movie files will not play on a clients computer. The reference movie files need the source media to play correctly.HD files are large, unless it’s small video, it will not fit on DVD-Rs.
Todd at UCSB
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[Mark Suszko] “I’m thinking, just export an HD reference movie from the timeline, unchanged, and drag-drop that onto the DVD-R that’s sitting on my desktop”
Mark,
If you put a Reference movie without the correspondent media, they won’t be able to open it.
Just drag the clips to Toast. It will warns you before the disk is full.
rafael -
We don’t own toast.
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If the client is asking for something, why aren’t you charging for it.
First you need to find out what codec they want.
Then convert all the clips to that codec in compressor.
Put these files on a HD (unless you are working with only a couple of minutes writing to a DVD is so time consuming).Charge the client for all the time and resources needed to do this for them.
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DVCProHD (assuming you’re using 720p60) will run you about 3.5 gigs per minute. If you have, say, 30 minutes of footage, that’s going to require 30DVDs (30fps footage will run you half that). Unless you only have a few minutes of footage, the DVD route may not be practical or cost effective. Can’t you just drop the capture scratch on a cheap external hard drive?
Richard Keating
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You shot DVCPRO HD on tape…and the client wants to edit this format, but lacks the deck. OK…first question is, what NLE are they going to use?
There is no way that I’d try to provide this footage on DVDs. I’d suggest they pay for a hard drive to store this on. Some cheap USB drive that will be used to transport the footage only. They then need to copy it to their drives that they use as media drives. But if you capture as DVCPRO HD, then they will need this decoder:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QDVCProHD.asp
Or you capture, convert to ProRes…and send them ProRes. Bill for every step. If the client wants to shoot a format, but can’t EDIT that format, and you need to take steps to get them footage to edit, you need to charge for that. Don’t let them start grinding.
Shane
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Oh, no fear on that score. I suppose I *could* give them HD h264 on DVD-R and make them have to transcode it. I got the impression the footage was pretty short, which is why DVD-R may still work in this case. I do think the better way to go is to put it on a USB portable drive, but you wouldn’t believe the paperwork hoops I will have to go thru to get a purchase authorized… I think we’ll ask the client to buy the drive themselves and send it to us, if the footgae is moer than a few minute’s worth.
Thanks for the tips. Still open to more suggestions.
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[Mark Suszko] “We don’t own toast.”
You don’t need Toast.
You can do it with the DiskUtility.
– Open a “New Image” (on top of DiskUtility)).
– Set a size of 4.5 GBs.
– Save
In your Finder you will find the Disk Image where you can drop whatever you want.
– Burn with the DiskUtility.
That’s all.
By default you will get a MacOSX disc, not playable in PCs.
If you want the disk to open it in a PC, you need to set FAT-32.
rafael
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