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Start with the training DVD that comes with FCP it includes the media needed to go through the tutorials.

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“I thought it might be useful to have a thread that consolidates all the things Apple has screwed up with this release, to make things easy for others that are just learning about these issues, including those at Apple who can effect fixes to the problems. ”

Its not like Apple will be reading the cow forums.

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It is very possible to fit a H264 HD video on to a data DVD.

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Using H264 a 2 hour movie is only 1-1.5 gig go buy a movie on itunes and see. It is not hard to do.

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“Several Data DVDs since you’re not going to fit much HD on a Data DVD and they have to have the hard drive space and speed to handle the file once copied. Many people have their 3 year old $599 computers as primary computers.”

Like a said before if you can get an entire 2 hour SD move in 1-1.5 gig I can get a clients HD content onto a single Blank DVD (most videos for clients will not be nearly as long as 2 hrs)

“It’s whether the client likes and will pay for it. You’re talking about what could be a big expense”

Also like I said before it is cheeper for the client to go with something like this then with a HD DVD player. Also many clients might also like the option to have all their video content at the touch of a button instead of having to switch discs all the time.

Like I said before If you don’t like it then don’t use it. All I sagest is a simple relatively inexpensive way to deliver HD content to a client.

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“Most people are not going to immediately run out and by AppleTV. You still have to deliver the file so factor in the cost of a hard drive too or are you going to your client’s home to xfer the file (assuming they have the space for the file on their hard drive) and either they are you will have to set up Apple TV. All this also assumes they have 802.11g or 802.11N. Heck after all that money spent they can probably buy an HD DVD player now. Sorry but just because it “can” be done doesn’t mean the will be common or financially viable.”

You don’t need to deliver it on a hard drive, a simple Data DVD will do just fine (the movies you buy on itunes are only a little over one gig). If the Client wants me to set it up for them then that would of-course be an additional fee (but it is not going to be that difficult)

Just about any computer in the last 2-3 years has 802.11b already, and if not, you can always connect to the Apple TV through the built in ethernet port on it.

You talk about long down convert times, you are going to have long encode times no mater what format you deliver in. It is going to take time to encode to a HD DVD or Blue Ray DVD also.

All I sagest it a relatively inexpensive way to deliver HD content relatively soon. If you don’t like that method then don’t use it.

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“3) There’s no easy means to deliver HD product (yet) which means you basically have to eat the cost on the downcovert (or downconvert on input).”

I wouldn’t say that you have to eat the cost of the down convert, most I know will just start it before they go home at night or before they go to lunch depending on the length of the video.

You also say that there is no easy way to deliver a HD product, with in a month or two there will be. The Apple TV supports 720p video. All your client needs is a computer with 802.11G or 802.11N, a computer with iTunes, and an Apple TV, and they can ether send the HD content to the Apple TV and have it stored on its internal HD or they can stream it to the Apple TV. And Apple TV is only $299 which is actually very affordable (cheeper then any HD DVD or Blue Ray DVD player I have seen). And all you have to do instead of encoding a authoring a HD DVD is to output to the proper file type and give them the video file.

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I didn’t say sharpen edge filter I said de-interlace, the de-interlace filter has different options, Blur, Even, Odd or Sharp, select sharp.

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If it controls the device but just no video appears then the port is fine, if the camera or hard drive doesn’t even show up is system profiler then thats when you start to worry.

Try trashing your FCP preference files.

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Its so funny to see everyone get all giddy at the slightest whisper of something new.

If you want to know what is new with Apple just look at apple.com, Apple will say there is something new if there is something new.