[Brian Paterson]

That is absolutely correct.

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[Brian Paterson]

Hi Jeremy,

No it’s not a laptop it’s a desktop computer – 24″screen etc.
The Timeline is completely rendered with bar blue/grey no red orange green or any other colour. I don’t know if it’s conformed. How do I check that. In the menu ‘conform to sequence’ is greyed out.

BRIAN

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[Brian Paterson]

Hi Jeremy,
I am on an Intel Mac running OS 10.5.8 2.8ghz intel core 2 Duo with 4GB Ram.

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[Brian Paterson]

Many Thanks Walter,
I checked out the AJA kona boards here but at One thousand pounds starting price that’s way over my budget right now. I understand now about sending the footage through compressor but tell me would the quality be any less through compressor than it would be if I did buy an AJA Kona board. – By the way “export to compressor” always seem to be greyed out when I look at it. Can I just drag the capture files to compressor to do this.
Regards

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[Brian Paterson]

Hi John,
I have finally found the installation disks but there must be one missing as I cannot see anything for DVDSP. It seems I am stuck on this one with no way forward unless I can get a disc from somewhere else. Even then I am not sure if each disc in each set has a seperate installation code. I.E. would a disc from another set work with my own installation discs.? And where would I get one if it did?
Many thanks anyway.
Brian

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[Brian Paterson]

I have read that idvd does it’s own compression therefore no need to use fcp’s compressor before sending to idvd. In fact this could cause footage to be compressed twice thereby losing quality. Is this true or a myth.?
Yesterday I completed my first ever HDV wedding video with an XHA1 and made a short test. I made a self contained quicktime file straight from fcp and burned it at professional quality in idvd. Quality looks fine on my widescreen telly but image is squished on my old standard one. ( there is probably an anamorphic tick box somewhere I missed ) Apart from that there dosen’t seem to be a problem. Thought I would write the whole two hour video today but contemplating the file size thought I would do it as a reference movie instead of self contained before sending to idvd but just read somewhere that I can’t make a reference file from fcp if it’s in hdv. Is this true? or another myth.
It’s going to take a long time so would like to start off on the right foot.
Many Thanks

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[Brian Paterson]

Hi Marcello,
Click on the “final cut tutorials” button ( at the top of the page)
It will bring up a lot of useful stuff.

Regards
BRIAN

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[Brian Paterson]

Thank you David, I don’t think I explained that very well but it seems instead of the sky colour fading out as you would expect i.e. the same colour becoming less as it fades to black, it sort of changes hue as it fades.
Being new to creative cow I didn’t realise you had a facility for sending video. I will certainly check it out. Many thanks for your prompt reply. – To be honest I am amazed to get a reply at all as I have posted questions on other sites before and never ever had any sort of help or acknowledgement. – Ever! I’m chuffed to bits as we say here in the U.K. – a reply all the way from Los Angeles. Maybe there’s an internet god after all !!!

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