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Export, Encode, to DVD?
I usually live in the after effects forums, so please fogive my possible elementary question 🙂
I have a project where I need to take 4 (29min) shows and get them encoded for 1 DVD for my client. The project is sitting on a PC Avid Adrenaline timeline. Right next to that I have a MacPro with Final Studio, which is my workstation. Im needing to find the best way to export the file from the Avid and import it into my Compressor so I can build the menus and layout in DVD Studio Pro. Im thinking I export the show quicktime animation codec, and bring it over and encode. But of course the file is HUGE. Does anyone have any advice in taking these shows out of the avid and bring them into my Apple workstation for ‘final delivery’ sort of speak. Any encoding tips or export settings? The shows are documentaries about a local University, so there isn’t a lot of fast/sport like footage.Again thanks for your time.
Victor“kis” it
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your on theright track.
Even on the same box, one can’t just export a quicktime reference like we al thought we could. We have to do a video mixdown, eating another 30 minutes of drivespace in this case.
Kind of a drag. I bought an adrenaline cuz it as DVD author friendly and HDV native.
lol
boy do I feel stupid.
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Thanks..
Now all I have to do is … wait. 🙂“kis” it
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Is the Adrenaline different? I’ve get XPress Pro / Meridian, and I don’t do a mixdown. I take a QT file (Yes, it is huge), and put it in our encoding machine and build DVD’s from there. Does Adrenaline require a mixdown when doing a QT reference?
Jon
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The mixdown may be so that when the QT ref is moved to another computer, you would only have to search for one video file when the QT ref asked where the media is. This is assuming you save the audio as separate files on export.
James Burke
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mBlaze Multimedia Design, Inc.
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Ahhhh, I didn’t think of it like that.
Thanks!
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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I have noticed encodes from a mixdown look different than encodes done from your sequence. Encodes from a mixdown only have the one file to deal with but when you encode from your sequence, your fade up is one file, scene 1 is another file, the dissolve between scene 1 and 2 is yet antother file, scene 2 still another file. Each of these files has its’ own beginning and end and the encoding treats it has such.
Nick Hrycyk
Digital Image Studios
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