HELP PLEASE! Deadline approaching

[Donal O kane]

Can you split it up into smaller sections and then put together in iDVD

[Brian Thomson]

as in separate chapters? It needs to play uninterrupted. Will iDVD go from one video to the next smoothly?

[Donal O kane]

Oh, iDVD has no timeline to piece things back together, DVD Studio Pro does thats what i would use to do this.

Does the movie you export from final cut when played in quicktime have the same sync problem?

[Brian Thomson]

Yes it does. So the problem is coming out of FCP.

[Donal O kane]

Check the export options you are using. Make sure you export as a self contained file.

It could be the case that you are exporting to a different framerate?

Do you have DVD SP?

[Derek Lau]

2 possible thoughts……

the final sequence you are exporting….. is it a “nested” sequence? if you have a nested sequence in your final sequence, try just copying and pasting all the original, multilayer sequences in a final timeline, re-render, then export.

Another thing that used to happen to me (before I downloaded updates) is after I would render, my audio would jump around and/or go out of synch. Before I downloaded needed updates, I just put tons of razor marks and slices in my audio, somehow, this fixed the final rendered mov.

one other thought is that if the video you are working with might be set at 30fps, and your export settings might be at 29.97 fps, make sure you are always working in 29.97. If you are exporting from Affter Effects and bringing it in to FCP, make sure you record in 29.97fps.

I hope this helps, I know what its like to have a deadline and unexplainable things happen at the last second…..

[Brian Thomson]

AWESOME! The un-nesting worked! I wonder why that would have made a difference. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to all of you for your help. I never would have made my hard deadline yesterday without your help. Cheers!