Amund Lie
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When you say excess black, do you mean like 40% extra or 3 – 5% extra black on either side? If the latter, you’re okay. Not all cameras fill the entire frame from edge to edge, yet still stay on the safe side of what will be broadcast and within the NTSC/PAL standards for 16:9.
Amund
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Exporting to MPEG2 from FCP via Compressor always causes sync issues, so don’t even bother!
Export a Quicktime from FCP first (either self contained or not), then drop that file in Compressor and convert to MPEG2 there. You can do the audio compression elsewhere, although I am not sure how many formats DVD Studio Pro accepts (if you are going to use this application). Just to make sure that your audio stays in sync, it might be a good idea to convert audio in Compressor at the same time. With the default setting it will be uncompressed AIFF so there should be no quality issues if you want to re-export this to another format. Also don’t forget that you can export to AC3 via the A.Pack application which should have been installed together with DVD SP. All DVD production systems will accept AC3 (but dont forget that this is a compressed audio format).
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I agree with you totally Adam, and try to stick to some self-control when posting questions in the right forums. But, you know as well as me that people are usually not that well behaved, especially when they’re frustrated over some technical issue and need fast answers. I think that any system with such a broad user base will suffer from as many queries as there are users. Dont know what it’s like over in the Avid camp, but they must surely have the same issues?
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By scene detection, do you mean detecting cuts in a finished scene taken from tape or a quicktime file, consisting of multiple cuts within one composite sequence? If so, I don’t believe there is such a plug-in for Final Cut. I know some editing systems can recognize cuts based on abrupt changes from one frame to another, mostly consumer video programs and video library software, but I am not aware of any professional plug-ins.
No such feature in Final Touch HD? And what do you think of this software so far? After testing it, my opinion is that it’s still in beta stage!
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Well, I can see a number of professional uses for it!
Too bad, it’s really convenient feature on documentaries for instance, like when you’ve got 100 tapes and need to log each shot quickly.Any idea what gets recorded to the memory chip in the tape housing? (provided there is one of course)
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