[Anna Conlon]

thanks i seem to have it now ….this was driving me mental

[Anna Conlon]

thanks but I don’t think this will work for me… My buttons dont appear till the end of my 30 second animation I’ve tried creating an overlay still but the problem is that you can see it before the actually buttons appear messing up the whole animation. Is there some way to get the overlay to appear at the right time in the animation sequence?

[Anna Conlon]

thanks everyone for your suggestions and explanations inparticular steve you’ve gone into allot of detail

and I hear ya about ergonomic chair! really need to invest i’m crippled at the moment! havent heard of Wacom (not sure if their in Ireland) but i’m going to look into it!

cheers everyone

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[Anna Conlon]

right o that’s allot of hard and fast answers Steve thanks you’ve saved me allot of time looking for tips that just wouldnt work.

I guess I’ll have to improve my hard ware when my budget allows. I currently use my G5 with final cut compressor and DVD stuido pro to create wedding videos. I have no problems with those packages but I wanted to include a fancy new title sequence and motion menu using after effects. These are both very small parts of my over all videos so i’ll struggle on for a while.

If I was investing what would you recommend for regular use of After Effects.

Thanks again

[Anna Conlon]

ah I think that is my problem i noticed you’ve used the word per processor, This is my Mac spec

Model Name: iMac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac8,2
Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.1)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB

I’m going to be using after effects allot and I really want to be able to improve the speed of render. What do you recommend?

Thanks for your response

[Anna Conlon]

Hi thanks for the post and advice I’ve found it very helpful as i’m new to final cut.

I have followed these instructions in order to create my first wedding video in final cut……its a very lengthy process (the compressor part took 7 hours for 21 minutes of footage) I have a g5 with 2G of ram. so im assuming that is normal with HD

Everything works well until i get to the DVD Pro stage.I am trying to burn 21 min movie to disk and it appears to be performing the task but then when i got to play the movie it just give me the first couple of minutes and then loops those minutes. If i play it on cheep dvd player it stalls and stutters and loops the first few minutes.

I really cant see where i’ve gone wrong? I have DVD Pro 4 on a G5 MAC and i’m burning to a rewritable + disk. I have selected SD DVD and Pal.
the compressed movie plays fine on my MAC i only hit problems when i try to burn. Even though the burn appears to complete successfully it only take 5min to burn. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. i’ve managed to get this far and dont want to fall at the final hurdle. Does anyone have any ideas?