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FCP NTSC > PAL rendering vs Vegas rendering
Friend has shot an instructional video in NTSC DV. Needs to produce both NTSC & PAL DVD versions, using FCP 5. He’s having a problem getting even the NTSC render to look good, eg the titles post-render no longer look smooth / clean. He spent the better part of today running through various settings of Compressor to achieve the best look. He’s fairly new on FCP, by the way. He was also trying to go from NTSC DV > NTSC 8 bit uncompressed edit > NTSC render, thinking it would help the eventual PAL conversion.
Anyway, he has run out of time on the project (is going on tour on Tuesday for 6 weeks) and wants me to take over, finish the edit and produce the DVDs. I use Vegas, naturally. He’s bringing his G5 + bits over to my place.
My questions are these:
1) For those of you familiar with FCP, any idea where he’s going wrong with the NTSC > NTSC render? He’s tried mucking around with square pixels vs non-square, field order, etc.
2) Would there be any mileage in putting the final render through Vegas? There are a zillion sequences in the project, resulting in 9 DVDs, so wouldn’t be easy to bring it across as is; am thinking more of using the final render from FCP before mpeg / DVD.
3) the DVDs themselves require loads of interactivity, which will be done with the FCP prog – DVD Studio. Does DVDa3 match DVD Studio for complexity? We have worked out a viable storyboard, as it were, but I don’t know if Vegas could do similar. Loads of end-actions / end-jumps / resumes / transitions etc.
I currently am using V5 & DVDa2, so no hands on with the latest yet. Would consider upgrading if it be comparable.
Oh, have also pointed him towards the Cow’s FCP forums, for him to get some answers from his side, but the power of Vegas is my secret
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1) the spec’s for DV ntsc is non square pixels = you should NOT have a choice … if you render as uncompressed qt then that might be square pixels ??
…2)FCP should be able to give you a good render ..go to FCP forum and ask for the render settings … if the edit is complex (lot of video tracks , audio, transitions) there is no way you would be able to export a EDL or AAF file that Vegas would assemble …
on some project i do render out a uncompressed MASTER render – then from that i create mpegs,wmv,QT,ntsc dv etc … if you want to make the mpegs, ntsc DV etc from vegas then you would render out FCP as QT uncompressed = approx 30mgs (vs dv at 5mgs) ..then bring that uncompressed clips into vegas and create the DVD’s etc ..but you may have a problem bringing the files into a PC . a PC is not going to read a mac hard drive..when i’ve networked with a MAC -everything for transferring files were done from the Mac …IMO because the edit is FCP =create all clips from FCP …
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