[Andrew Johnson]

’Extraordinary. I’ve already had to spend an hour on the phone with tech support to sort the Audio Filter problem out since subscribing to Creative Cloud a month ago.

[Andrew Johnson]

What kind of twonkery is this!? I have the same looping problem in PP CC. Adobe are you there?

[Andrew Johnson]

It’s been said here a million times but it’s a ludicrous state of affairs that shames both sides of the ‘divide’. It’s absolutely mystifying to consider that this impasse has come about by design rather than by accident.

[Andrew Johnson]

FCP 7.0.3, OS X 10.6.8, 3.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, 500GB internal and 2TB external drive

[Andrew Johnson]

Yep, did this with an entire feature film project once to discover that FCP handles it about as well as it would do if it were trying to run video off bakelite discs.

[Andrew Johnson]

Fantastic, thanks for this.

[Andrew Johnson]

Uncompressed 8-bit YUV bl-ody works! Thanks again, ’much appreciated.

[Andrew Johnson]

[Andrew Johnson] “No, I presumed all of them would be too big to fit on an SD DVD.”

If the file is too big to transfer, try a(n) USB memory stick instead.

I’m trying to deliver these files on DVD.

[Andrew Johnson] “Is it the case that I need to start high and let DVD Studio Pro compress it to a low setting? ”

Yes, it is better to use a low compression intermediate codec if you can’t just rewrap a MPEG2 file without transcoding.

But doesn’t that have space implications in terms of how much I can fit on the DVD?

[Andrew Johnson] “Surely the time factor on that’s going to be a killer.”

Actually, H.264 takes longer to encode.

Not in my experience of using CS6 and FCP alongside each other.

[Ivan Myles] “Have you tried any QuickTime codecs like PNG, JPEG2000, DNxHD, or uncompressed 4:2:2 YUV?”

I just remembered DNxHD is not applicable in this case because it only supports HD resolutions.

I am wary of DNxHD due to a right snarl I got into trying to port files in that codec over to edit in FCP, but the other low compression codecs you have suggested are an excellent idea, and thanks again for your response.

[Andrew Johnson]

No, I presumed all of them would be too big to fit on an SD DVD. Is it the case that I need to start high and let DVD Studio Pro compress it to a low setting? Surely the time factor on that’s going to be a killer.

[Andrew Johnson]

Yes, thanks for that, you’re absolutely right. I didn’t check sufficiently those settings—possibly due to near delirium after ouputting this sequence in excess of 50 times without success. The MPEGs are still incompatible with DVD Studio Pro 4 when they are multiplexed and I get video only no audio when I don’t multiplex them.

Encore seems to be the only way forward.