Brian Deviteri
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I have a .TS file created (105mb) from Episode Pro and now I’m looking for a player to check/test the file. Any suggestions on something reliable?
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Do you have any suggestions for specs in Episode Pro? I have the evaluation copy, I’ve been messing around with it, but so far I’m not entirely thrilled with the results. I’ll try something out if you can make a suggestion.
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We have an account with DG and we’re fine for SD encodes. We are starting to do some HD work and I’m sure it will only start picking up more and more as time goes by. We currently upload to our DG Drop Box for digital delivery (our DG FTP account).
What settings through Flip4Mac will work for these HD encodes? Any issues specific to Intel vs. PPC and Flip4Mac?
Currently for these testing purposes I have been using FCP 5.1.4, using a DVCPRO HD project (Kona 3), and doing some graphics, text, hi-res photo effects/motion, and some stock footage (SD & HD) and exporting my sequence as Quicktime DVCPRO HD at 1080i60 (1920×1080) with 2 channels of audio (stereo mix).
The HD requirements for Drop Box are:
Video encoding = MPEG-2
Video Bit Rate = 45 Mbps
Stream Type = Transport Stream
GOP = Long GOP IBBP preferred
Pixel Aspect Ratio = 1.0
Aspect Ratio = 16:9
Chroma = 4:2:2 (MP@HL)
Luminance and chroma levels = ITU-R BT.709format = 720p
lines = 720
scan type = progressive
frame rate = 59.94-OR-
format = 1080i
lines = 1080
scan type = interlaced
frame rate = 29.97audio = MPEG-1 Layer 2
channels = 2 (stereo)
sample rate = 48KHz-OR-
audio = LPCM SMPTE 302M
channels = 2 (1 stream, 2 ch per stream)
bit depth = 16, 20, or 24
sample rate = 48KHz(note: there are separate requirements for 8 channel audio and other “flavors” that are non-stereo, but my work is mainly stereo)
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thanks for the clarification Tim!
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I work with a guy who swears by Vegas. He’s still using Vegas 4.0 on a desktop and laptop and he loves it. For the work he does on it for personal use, it’s great. For more professional work, I’m sure that is not the route I would go. I’ve never liked the interface, but it does get the job done if you can get past that. Its integration with Sound Forge is great from what I hear about Vegas 6.0, but I can work with Sound Forge and PPro with ease as well… or Audition which supports multi-track audio, something Sound Forge has yet to do.
I’ve messed around with Vegas, as well as MANY other NLE systems and applications. I was “trained” on an Avid (MCXpress at first, the old version of Xpress Pro, now use an Xpress Pro HD 5.1.6 quite often), then I did a lot of work on Premiere back when it was Premiere 5.1 and then 6.0 and 6.5 (now using PPro 1.5.1). I always found the Premiere interface, interaction, and overall feel to be just natural to me (and almost all Adobe products for that matter). It works the way I think and it’s a great fit. Avid systems are a close second, but they don’t allow me to be as creative and flexible with ease… they act a lot like an old linear editor on a computer if you ask me. I spend a lot of time with the technical end of things in Avid rather than just creating – and I find that this is the case with many users. I find it so funny how so many companies out there have an Avid for the name but then end up doing all their work on Premiere or Final Cut, then import it back into Avid for “finishing” in front of the client.
If you want my two cents, I’d say you’re really better off comparing Adobe Premiere, Avid Xpress, and Apple Final Cut rather than throwing Vegas into the mix.
If Flash is a concern of yours, why move out of the Adobe/Macromedia family?
Audition is an awesome audio utility if you ask me, just as powerful as Sound Forge if not more so since it does multi-track. BTW, if you like Sound Forge, all the plug-ins are DirectX compatible, so they will all work in Audition if both the Sound Forge and Audition software is installed on the same machine.
As for DVD authoring, I’ve never used DVD architect before. I’ve heard good things, but the end products that I’ve seen from Architect are mediocre if you ask me… but that could definitely be the “user” instead of the software. I can’t say for sure.
Good luck with your decision.
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What program were the graphics created in – Avid 3D, Avid FX, Avid Xpress “Marquee” tool? Do you have access to the original project files?
Seems to me that chroma key may be the simple way to do it. Run some tests with that and see how far you can get it to go.
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Are these graphics solid graphics – slates, pictures, images, etc? Or do they contain transparencies that need saved – lower thirds, bugs, etc? Were they created in the Avid title tool, marquee? What is their origination? HD, SD?
From my experience working with Avid and trying to get things out of the “Avid world” into a non-Avid editor, you’re best option is exporting out of Avid as a TIFF image. You’re next best option is Quicktime movies, then DV movies. (DV movies will have to be converted to AVI movies using Quicktime Pro or something similar to get them to work in PPro.)
Trying to preserve transparency will probably require using a chroma key or something similar in place of all the transparent places – put a green still image underneath the graphics and then export. This may be difficult to work with depending on how clean you can get the chroma key to work and look, but it’s an option.
Post some more info and I’ll see if I can help some more…
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Kinda funny, I’m getting this error when viewing that page:
“The page you were trying to view is no longer available. To continue shopping for Adobe products, please visit the Adobe Store main page.”
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Kinda related, but has anyone heard that Sony is finally considering stopping production of the Memory Stick in favor of (what is looking like the industry standard) SD card? This will happen with these DTE tapeless recording formats soon enough, they can’t all compete forever… customers will not stand for it, unless they keep spending money on every new product that comes out.
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This sounds like what I’m really looking for… or at least close to it. Are there any other mentions of this from other reviewers or beta testers?