Chris Catalano
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Andrew, Dave and Mark,
Thanks for all the suggestions. I greatly appreciate it. So ideally the simple solution would have been to put a title graphic over black for the first few seconds of each section. Unfortunately, the footage already has names and titles as lower thirds throughout the whole piece. So that would be redundant. I like the idea of maybe putting a quote or statement first, but the sections are only like 7 – 10 seconds each. So in order to have the quote on screen for a comfortable time, it would probably be up as long as the person speaking. Maybe that’s not horrible, but it would definitely have to be repeated for all of the other sections to keep it consistent.
Unfortunately I don’t have access to anything other than this finished piece. But I’ll monkey with some of these idea and see what looks good.
Thanks.
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Great site. Makes the subject very clear and obvious.
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I understand everything you say about not ‘owning’ the material. I had just thought that there was some allowances for using a certain short duration of a work in conjunction with a not for profit endeavor. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case, though…
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It would be used on the organization’s website, and they might also create a utube page.
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Also just to add a little more info: We know how awful the quality of VBR is in Compressor 2, but what alot of people don’t mention is how much the file sizes are screwed up. For example I just installed the Final Cut Studio suite on a new Powerbook G4. Brand new system, everything’s up to date. I captured a 45 minute VHS tape (through a Sony firewire DV converter) and went about encoding it. I didn’t bother with any export of reference movies or self contained movies. I went straight to the captured video file and compressed it. I selected the 120 minute Best Quality setting. The description of that setting says it is set for an average bitrate of 5mbps, which supports 120 minutes of video on a DVD-5 using .192 Dolby audio. That’s just fine for what I wanted. (I’ll be putting 2 such vhs tapes onto 1 dvd). So that’s what I used. The destination of the encode was set up for an external firewire drive which supposedly should help with the speed a little bit. So the end result is that it took over 7 1/2 hours to encode the 45 minute clip. All along the way the “Time Remaining” field in Batch Monitor was sooooo far off. For instance at a point where it said there was only 1 hour left, there was really about 3 hours left. How lame is that? But the real problem is the finished file size for the 45 minute clip was a little over 2GB!!! I pulled it into DVDSP to see what the average bitrate was – and it turned out to be 6.3!! How the heck could this have been so far off from the targeted rate of the encoding setting? Absolutely ridiculous! So that was a complete waste of 7 1/2 hours of my life.
The bottom line is that Compressor 2 is crap. And Apple doesn’t care. There have been numerous threads over on there discussion boards regarding these issues and there’s never been a response from Apple. People who have called in to tech support are always told that they’re the first ones to ever report such problems. In my opinion Apple is more interested in iPods and iTunes downloads. I believe you’ll start to see less and less ‘milestone’ achievements in the supposedly pro applications. IPod and iLife sales probably bring in exponentially more revenue than sales of the pro apps, so us poor saps trying to make a living will usually pay the price. (Just my opinion, of course).
In any event, I need to go load up Bitvice onto the Powerbook so I can get some work done.
Cheers,
Chris