best method for BetaSP to QT on a DVD…

[Jeff Carpenter]

Go to EXPORT -> Quicktime Movie. Set it like this:

Current Settings
Audio and Video
No Markers
Make Movie Self-contained UN-CHECKED

Then open the Quick Time player and use it to open that file you’ve exported. Go to File -> Export -> “Movie to iPod” setting.

This is a very easy way to get a nice-looking video without any hastle. Quicktime or iTunes can play it on Mac or Windows.

[Chris Poisson]

Mortimer,

What were you judging the DV quality on?

[Fargoross]

Are the other users going to edit this footage, or just view it?

[Bret Williams]

Not sure what he judged it on, but some others I know recently were editng everything uncompressed 8 bit with AJA IO. They did a test. Digibeta via the IO into the system as uncompressed 8 bit, AND the same video via the IO converting it on the fly to DV format. Playback of the two different images via an sdi monitor after capture led to the discovery that nobody could pick out which was the uncompressed capture, and which was the DV conversion. They have now switched their system to DV based everything from dibeta to betacam to DVCam now gets converted to DV via the AJA IO. By doing so, they just multiplied their available drive space 5 times over.

Given they’re not a boutiqe or doing broadcast work. Just corporate. And they don’t rely heavily on any 3D animation or motion grpahics. Some, but not a lot. I think for them it was a good move. The drive space, and the lessened load on the fibrechannel is worth it. And since they weren’t able to find anyone that could tell the difference…

[J. Tad newberry]

it worked like a charm…but the final mpeg-4 file looked quite blurry, loss of resolution. it seems like there would be another way (with fewer steps, less compressing) to share higher resolution QT video files with others.

[J. Tad newberry]

two different computer screens (one PC and one Mac), and two different TV monitors as well.

[J. Tad newberry]

i would like for it to be high enough quality that they can edit it as they wish…

[Fargoross]

Since you have already captured your BetaSP footage into Final Cut in with the DV Codec, that means Final Cut has already created DV Quality Quickimes of your footage. Locate your “Capture Scratch” folder, inside your capture scratch is a folder with the same name as your project file. Inside that folder will be quicktimes of your captured footage, one quicktime for every clip captured. You can pass these files on.

Ross Hendrickson

[J. Tad newberry]

thanks Ross,

ya, that seemed like the most obvious thing, and is the first thing i tried. that is, just putting the original captured QT clips onto a DVD, then they will play in QT on a PC…but i was wanting to edit the originals just slightly (adding some titles, tightening up some of the shots, etc.), and was trying to find the most “loss-less” way to go out of FCP to DVD then to a PC (or Mac). basically, sending some stock footage shots to a stock footage dealer.

[Fargoross]

I would just export your timeline.

Open the sequence you want exported. Go File>Export>Quicktime Movie
Under “Setting:” select Current Settings, and check the ‘Make movie self contained’ box.
That will write a new quicktime file with all your information, and maintain whatever quality/settings you are editing your project at.

make sense?

Ross