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Could be the tape, the camera/deck, the cable , firewire bus on the computer, the drives that it is going to.

Do some more trouble shooting starting with the tape, camera/deck, and cable.

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If you are going to be working in HDV learn as much as you can about the HDV format, there is a great article about it in the Oct issue of the Creative Cow Magazine.

Conforming and rendering are separate things. Conforming can take a lot longer. Because of iFrame structure of HDV it can be a pain at times to work with, and it must conform or create new iFrames when you export back to tape or compress for DVD.

Depending on the length of your video conforming it can a long time. I recently did a 40 min video in HDV and it took 8+ hours to convert tit to DVD. And then of course for some odd reason the audio was out of sync, redoing it fixed the issue but it took 8+ hours to redo.

A faster computer cuts down on the time it takes to do it. I am on a Dual 2.5 G5 Tower with 2.5 Gigs of ram. and it still took that long to do. Boy do I wish a had had a new Dual Quad Power Mac.

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The only problem you will have is LONG conforming times on a older computer like a G5. If time is an issue when getting things done go for a faster computer like the intel.

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Anything other then simple cuts and fads can often as you say look cheesy. But Digital Juice has some cool looking swipes that you can add.

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Well mabie It will, but being in the US I have no need to try and put 25 fps on the Apple TV

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What resolution is the graphic, Wat type of time line are you puting it onto, (DV NTSC, 8Bit, DVC PRO HD etc)

these can have a big effect on how well a graphic looks

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Apparently it douse the US web site says specifically maximum resolution: 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps.

https://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html

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Remember you are in the UK I am speaking about the US version.

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You can give them a simple data DVD with the file and let them add it to there iTunes and then to the Apple TV. Or you can sync all your clients videos to the Apple TV from your office and then just hook up the Apple TV at your clients location.

I did a 18 min video and it turned tout being just under 500 mb in size. I used visual hub to convert it.

Keep in mind that the 720p video that the Apple TV supports must be 24 fps so you may need to convert the frame rate.

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“has anyone tried to use AppleTV hardware feed an HD monitor via HDMI from FCP? ”

I’m not quite sure I know what you mean. Do want sent video to the Apple TV straight from FCP?

The HDMI and Component connections on the Apple TV is output only. ALL media must go on from iTunes.

That said I have put content onto my Apple TV that I have edited in FCP. It looked GREAT. It is a fairly inexpensive way to show HD content at a remote location. Put it on your Apple TV and just hook it up the a HDTV anywhere. It is also a inexpensive way to distribute HD content. It is cheeper then a HD DVD or Blue Ray Player (not to mention you don’t have to buy a HD DVD or Blue Ray burner)