Alex Elkins
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To get them all onto one DVD you can really only allow 500mb per 45minute video – the quality would be terrible. A lot of the edits to DVD we do are around 45mins long and they come in at 2.4 GB. I can’t imagine that 1/5 of that quality would be acceptable for your client, but you could always try it on say a 30 second segment. I think you’d need to encode that at no more than 1.5mbits/sec. That should give you roughly 500mb/45 mins.
Other than that, I’d say do a bit of research into why your dual layer DVD may not have worked before. If you can find a fix you’d be able to double the quality of your files. After all, it must be possible to make good dual layer DVDs as a lot of Hollywood films are. It’s not something I’ve had to do though, so I’m afraid I can’t offer any help on that.Good luck,
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That sounds about right to me. Your file sizes would be a lot smaller if you digitised as HDV… https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2704
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How long are the presentations? Is it just graphics, or are you saying you’re working with video of someone doing a presentation?
This is what I would do if I was delivering on DVD and it was to be used for a presentation:
-Animate each PowerPoint slide in After Effects/Motion. Render off each slide, and also make a freeze frame of each one.
-Insert your slides into a timeline in DVDSP, with the corresponding freeze in between each one. Make your freezes quite long (maybe a minute long).
-Place chapter markers at the start and end of each freeze. On the FIRST marker (I’ll call it Freeze Page 1 IN), set it’s end jump to be Freeze Page 1 IN. This means that when the slide plays it’ll get to the freeze. After one minute it’ll jump back to the freeze, and will keep doing that until the person doing the presentation clicks the ‘Next Chapter’ button on the remote. The same as a mouse click in PowerPoint.
The benefit of doing this rather than just using a PowerPoint is the advantage of being able to create better graphics, and insert video easily or an animated logo that could loop round etc.
Depending on how long the presentations are I would have thought you could do this on a single DVD, or certainly a dual layer – what scares you about them?
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[Mark Palmos] “Compressor, i think, can only be given one FCP sequence at a time, very limiting in that regard.”
Compressor is designed precisely to DO batch rendering – it does a really good job of it too. In the browser window just select all the sequences you want to encode and go File/Export/Export Using Compressor (or right click). Then once in Compressor you need to select all of the sequences and then drag your desired settings over – applies it straight to every item.
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[Ernie Santella] “Plus, if you export as a reference file, then you can continue to edit in FCP while compressor works in the background.”
I can’t believe I never thought to do that. The lack of background rendering when exporting from FCP is a massive gripe I have with Compressor.
Anyway, in response to the original post I think if you go to Audio/Video Settings/Sequence Presets and duplicate one of the ones already there, you can edit it to be your own custom setting when you export. You can choose whatever compressor, frame size, interlacing etc you want. Not something I’ve done before but I think I will now that I’ve worked it out.
Looks like you can also delete ones you don’t want, but that’s not something I’m willing to test, just in case! -
Hi Bruno – welcome to the forum.
Are you capturing using a video card (Kona/Blackmagic etc) or through Firewire? If you’re using a card then under System Preferences>Sound you can set your output to Internal Speakers for your music to come out through the Mac speakers, or Line Out if you’re using headphones/ external speakers with a mini-jack connection.
Best,
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[Matt Gerard] “Is there anyway for me to get FCP to automatically recognize them as anamorphic? I can do it by hand, but I’m going to have hundreds of them.”
If you select all of your graphics, just right-click in the anamorphic column in the browser and select ‘Yes’. That applies the anamorphic tick to all of them.
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This isn’t something I’ve needed to do before, so there are I’m sure other ways to do this.
The best way I can think of is to drop all of your clips onto a timeline. Then apply the rotation to the first clip and copy that clip. Then highlight all of your other clips, press option+V and tick the box that says ‘Basic Motion’. This will apply the rotation to every clip on your timeline.
Next, in the browser window, select your sequence and go File>Media Manager. On the first drop-down menu select ‘Recompress’, and recompress media using 1080i Apple ProRes (assuming you shot the HDV at 1080i). You could also recompress using HDV, but there’d be a slight quality loss and HDV isn’t a great format to edit with anyway. ProRes will keep the original quality and render faster when you come to edit it, although file sizes will be a lot bigger.Un-tick all the boxes under the Media menu. Under the Project menu, tick ‘duplicate selected items and place into a new project’. Under Media Destination select where you want the video files to be saved (making sure there’s lots of free space on whatever disk you choose).
CLICK OK.Final Cut will hum away to itself for a while, and then when it’s done a new project should open with all your new files there, ready-flipped.
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[Dave Martin] “Can I go as high as 200?”
I don’t see why not, but I wouldn’t recommend having them all open at the same time. I’m pretty sure there’s no maximum number of sequences allowed. I recently did a job where there were over 100 sequences in the project and it was fine.
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Hi Christine,
It could be that when you play the clip in Quicktime it’s displaying your video with square pixels.
Try this:
Open in Quicktime and press Command+J
Highlight the row that says ‘Video Track’ and then under the Visual Settings menu un-tick ‘Preserve Apsect Ratio’
Change frame size to 1024 x 576That should display a 16×9 video. However, if you need to re-import it to FCP it won’t display correctly unless you change the settings in Quicktime back to 720×576.