[Anna Conlon]

I have been looking for a solution to this problem for months and this worked for me also.

Used snow leopard to install just rosetta and then was able to install FCP6 so delighted with this ….tots simple after all 😛

No problems or errors either

Thanks to Eddie Bojorquez and Jason Barnada for posting this solution

[Anna Conlon]

Sorry just realised I never mentioned what system I’m working off. I’m using FCP 6 on a MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.8

[Anna Conlon]

Thanks Steve for posting that tutorial there was a fair bit in there that I wasn’t aware of!

Hi Rafael I know space is relatively cheep at the moment but I was just wondering if there was any point in dealing with these ridiculous large files if I’m going to be out putting is SD at the end. Also I will be working with approx. 40 weddings a year and if each is 300 GB it’s a fair few HD to have knocking around as I keep the raw footage for approx. 6 months.

Ok so everyone agrees not to downsize to SD. Going forward I think my best workflow would be as Chris suggested.

Firstly convert my canon 550d footage to ProRes so it’s workable in FCP (unfortunately I can’t use prores LT as FCP 6 doesn’t have this available)

Leave my HDV footage HDV and drag the convert ProRes footage onto my HDV time line and render it to match the HDV.

Have I got all that correct? I’m running a test at the minute to see how long it will take to render on the time line.

[Anna Conlon]

Well I downloaded toast titanium, It appears to have installed correctly and I’ve burned 6 different disc two different types ritek and Sony. All the disc’s gave verified burned successfully but none of the disc would display anything at all in the DVD player.

I’m at a complet loss!

[Anna Conlon]

Hi Michael

I haven’t heard of BitVice, I currently use compressor to create my MPEGs. But I have obviously heard of toast…. I’ve downloaded it and I’m going to attempt to burn the DVDs using this instead of the Disc Utility.

If I have a better sauces rate with Toast I’ll report back.

Thanks for the advice.

[Anna Conlon]

I though I should give some more detail of my MAC and processes.

Currently I’m using
MacBookPro 4,1
Processor 2.5 GHz
Memory 2 GB

After building my DVD in Studio Pro using Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 and MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass files, I perform an advance burn and build and format to the desktop. This creates a disk image or DVD.img file which I save to the hard drive. I have tried selecting lossless linking and unselecting this option both creates failed disc’s. Once the Master .img file is created I use disk utility to burn the discs. With my MAC book pro I can only select 8x speed. If I select a slower speed the burn will fail. The DVDs I’m using are Traxdata and are DVD-r 8x

I don’t have an external burner I use the one built into my MAC
MATSHITA VD-R UJ-867.

I always get a burned successfully message but when I watch the DVDs approx. half stall and freeze and the other half are fine! Why when I use the same process do some DVDs work and others fail? Its so unperdicitable at the moment 1 in 2 are not working. Its driving me crazy.

I’m about to go out to buy an external burner to see if this helps but I have no idea if this will actually help in any way.

[Anna Conlon]

well I know that almost all of my competitors aren’t double box set DVDs Every wedding I do now is longer than 90minutes (most because of the speeches)

To be honest I’d be afraid I’ll end up compromising quality but its a real pain having to export two .mov files and then send them down for compression and then of course burn 3 extra copies. I’m trying to cut back on production time. I guess the question big question is…is it visible to the eye and of course audible different.

Most movies are over 1.5 hours now and there isn’t a quality problem there but obviously I’m using different method of compression.

[Anna Conlon]

I’ve just tested the DVD in a few other players and I’m delighted that our player seems to be the problem! The copied DVD works perfectly in 3 other players 🙂

thanks anyway

[Anna Conlon]

I really hate to start this head wrecking thread back up but I’m starting to have the same unexplained problems …..AGAIN.

Just to refresh …Even though formatting my sample DVD appeared to be successful. On half of the disc I tested it would stall at the same point on the disc with green banding, freezing and jumping.

I’m using a

-Mac OS X 10.5.8 with 2GHz Power PC 5 and 2GB memory and western digital MYbook external hard drive
-I created my sample file in final cut and export as .mov 126min long
-I use compressor to create my mpeg2 and dolby digital files
-I then create my DVD stuido pro file with motion menu audio and chapters.
-The motion menu is created in After effects as .mov and then compresses to mpeg2 and audio format is .aiff this is used in the menu
-I build the file to my desktop and then format
-I also tried building the file to my desktop and then used disc utility to burn the disc at the slowest rate possible (x2) both burning methods produced the same unreliable results (some disc worked some stalled)

When consulting this forum we identified a few things that may be causing the problem

-I was leaving lossless switched on when formatting the disc
-The DVDs I was using wasn’t the very best quality possible
-I was stringing together mpges in the time line

I resolved all of the above. The most complicated was stringing together mpeg2. In order to avoid this I had to go back to final cut create on uninterpreted .mov and re-compressed this file. I also cut footage at the point where the disc stalled the majority of the time. I replaced this with new footage. I created an entirely new DVD studio file. Even though this new file worked the first few burns it has started to stall again on testing. This time randomly at different point on the disc. It gives green bands and then stops and jumps or completely stops.

Just as an experiment I tested a DVD in my DVD player at home and it stalled at one point and competently stopped. I took this DVD and tested in another DVD player and it worked perfectly. I then tried the same DVD back in my own DVD player and now its working perfectly. I’ve tested it several times on both DVD players and its almost as if its gotten better??? I’ve tried this with a few DVD that were stalling and they work now on another player. Can DVD players damage disc …The more testing I do the more confussed I become.

-The way I test the DVD is by forwarding them by x8 speed. I know the footage so well that i can see very quickly if the disc stalls slightly

I have spent weeks trying to resolve this problem. Could it lie in DVD player? I know this sound stupid but can you damage a DVD in a player and you make it better in another. Clutching at straws! I want to put and end to this so I can move on and do actual work!

[Anna Conlon]

I did finally get enough DVDs working to get the urgent samples I needed.

The problem defiantly related to the string of Mpeg. Watching over the DVD’s it stalling always occurred where the mpegs joined up. Doing the video stream helped a little but didn’t fully resolve the problem. What I have to do now is return to final cut create one .mov and then compress that into one mpeg file.

-I also was leaving lossless switched on
-and my DVDs wasn’t the best quality

Hopefully this thread will help someone with similar problems

thanks to all who took time out to help