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MAC Copying DVDs
Hi,
I’m a new editor and have just made the switch from PC to MAC. I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to make copies of my old video’s i’ve made. I’m using FCP 4.5 and DVD studio Pro 3.Also, on a side-note. I’ve been editing Wedding and event videos and doing photo montages and little projects. What’s the going rate to charge while editing. Or even shooting for that matter?
CK.
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EventDV for event videographers might be a subscription you might want to pick up. You can get a subscription at EventDV Subscripton.
Are your PC videos AVI’s, WMV’s, mpeg’s, MOV’s, et al? There are media converters–free and commercial–that will convert to a QuickTime format FCP understands (ffmpegX, Popwire.com, Flip4Mac.com, SorensonMedia.com, QuickTime Pro understand AVI’s).
HTH,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
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Captian
You can easily copy a DVD on your Mac desktop with Disk Utility. Here’s how:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/making_dvd_copies.html
On your rates question, if you’re in a major market, it’s probably anywhere from 50 to 125 an hour. Also depends on how much skill you have. Otherwise, sniff around your competitors, often you can see their rate schedule on their Websites.
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Wow! A very simple and elegant solution.
The disc copying and burning utility in Jaguar and Panther doesn’t always leap to the front of my brain because it was such of a pain when copying files to a data CD/DVD. It use to be a two step method of copying files to a temporary disc image and then copying them again to the actual CD/DVD. Roxio Toast was my preferred method on Panther because it only copied the data once–to the CD/DVD. But of course this would be a two step method anyway if you only have one DVD to copy from and then to.
Excellent suggestion Chris,
Excellent technique Ken,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
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Hey Bryce,
It’s just too funny, beecause my daughter had a homemade DVD that she wanted a copy of last week, and I made one using FCPs capture from uncontrolled device, then compressing and authoring through DVDSP, and a half hour show took about 4 hours. Plus, it lost all the menus etc.
Then on Saturday I just stumbled on Kens article, and to copy the DVD with all it’s attributes took all of a half hour!!!
So always glad to share…
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