Cinnamon Kennedy
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thank you all. I was really missing tttt!
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Thank you for this great advice. I never would have guessed about having to set the navigation. Also, for all those out there like me who are teaching themselves DVD studio pro (possibly not a good idea), remember to set the language (there are two tabs under preferences which deal with this) to English, or some DVD players won’t recognize your DVDs. Another thing I had to learn by trial and error, error, error, error!
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Hi,
I just finished a large project which for a while had chronic “out of memory” problems. I want to offer that what worked for me was switching from Prores to DVCPro HD60. I had a lot of subtitles on this video and for some reason that did not mesh well with the ProRes. The problem was never that I was actually “out of memory” – just something wasn’t working right. The switch to DVCPro made the rendering shorter and the exporting much longer, but fcp never crashed, so I could leave it overnight. Hope this helps somebody – it’s a frustrating problem!Cinnamon Kennedy
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To reply to my own message – yes MPEG streamclip will work. I successfully batch processed 100+ short videos from HD prores into both NTSC and PAL through Streamclip, and they looked pretty good. I would recommend this to anyone who has chronic Compressor problems like I do (did – now my compressor is fixed but my motion keeps crashing…). I would be interested in understanding why Streamclip is not mentioned much as a Compressor alternative. It seemed to work well.
Cinnamon Kennedy
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Thank you so much for answering. My compressor has not opened for two days – keeps crashing upon opening – but that is a problem for another forum. If it ever recovers, I will definitely try your formula.
I have to confess that I’m working for people who know less about TV standards than I do, which is in fact possible. (A branch of the UN.) This is the piece that they want to put on TVE:
https://blip.tv/file/4080576Since this particular organization is a bunch of semi-hysterical people who don’t talk to each other (and I really love the UN), my hope is to put together a nice-looking EBU-standard compression without waiting for them to tell me what to do (because they might never get around to telling me). I’m thinking about 25 fps, 16:9 PAL, audio at 48. That is just from me looking around the internet – any recommendations are most welcome. I just want it to get to TVE looking ok – my guess is they’ll probably excerpt parts of it for whatever news show wants it.
And another dumb question to follow up my original dumb question: Should I put color bars + tone on something I intend to ftp?
Thank you all so much for answering a person in crisis. If I had a dollar for every Creative Cow post I’ve read, I would never have to work again.
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Thank you both, that’s very helpful. (I also like wetransfer.com – I think they have a 2G limit.) I don’t know about specs yet. All they said was “Broadcast Quality” so I’m guessing that’s big. And I’m sure they have a server that I would –trying not to use ftp as a verb — upload to. 😉 But what I gather from these two posts is that such a thing is possible from a broadband connection, and I don’t need to run out and find somebody who will put it on tape for me? -
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I’m just completing a subtitle-heavy project and for this I purchased a subtitling plugin called CVH Text – the basic fcp effects were ok but my people wanted more definition, which this plugin certainly gave. I also want to recommend two interfaces that I used a lot – “dotsub.com” – this allowed people to translate my stuff remotely and then I could download the .srt file into text edit, and “submerge”, a cheap little program that will blend an .srt file into an .mov file automatically.What I did was for putting the subtitles into fcp was, I created a subtitle in the definitions that I liked and then stretched/copied it all the way across, cutting it with each line of talking and then filling in the text by hand. I guess that’s sort of low tech but it worked.
(By the way, the subtitling plugin that I recommended above had some issues with Apple ProRes 422. I had to switch over to DVCPRo.)
Good luck!
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Hi – just a note that I got this error message after importing some footage from “submerge”, a subtitle-embedding program. Although I’m sure the answer is buried in some library-transfer stuff as noted above, rendering as “graphics” (also noted above) worked ok in a temporary way, for those in a pinch.
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I did a batch conversion in mpeg streamclip, rotating the files and setting them to the same settings as my other files. This worked – fcp likes them, and although they have some extra black bars on the sides, they look ok. I’ll call this problem solved.
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wanted to note that I had this problem and it was because FCP was confused about the location of a snippet of video that I had moved between drives a couple of times. Reimporting helped.