Claude Lyneis
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I like to use some music appropriate for the subject and it helps give me a sense of how long a clip should be and when to cut to the next one. Also, since attention spans are short, I try to keep the clips short. For web based material three or four minutes is a good length and that restriction forces a certain pace.
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I wonder if they fixed the problem of not recognizing the AVCHD files on camcorders. That was discuss on this forum a few weeks back.
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Link to vimeo doesn’t open the video.
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Sounds irritating. Maybe I will wait awhile on Mountain Lion. Does it allow you to copy the AVCHD folder from your camera flash card onto your hard drive? That is how I keep a backup of the original.
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I copy my AVCHD file directly off the camera onto an external drive. At least in Lion and FCPX to inport them into FCPX I choose import from camera then at the bottom of the window choose open archive and then I can navigate to the AVCHD file stored on my external disk. Haven’t gone to Mountain Lion yet, since I don’t want to be on bleeding edge.
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Playback is all about the video card in your Mac. Once I got a new iMac the playback smoothed out.
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I have an XA10, and have used it with every version of FCPX.
Step 1.
Plug it in using USB port and turn on you Mac
Step 2
Put it in play back mode and the camera should ask whether you want to access the internal memory or one of the external memory cards (if you have installed them.)
Sep 4 Choose the memory of choice.
At this point you should be able to do either
A. Import using FCPX
B. Find an icon for the memory on the Mac desk top and drag the AVCHD file onto your hard drive.I actually do both so I have an imported file and a “raw” AVCHD image that can be imported at any later date.
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I looked at the presents using compressor in FCPX and there is only one labeled MPEG-2 for DVD. Here are the specs. It says 2.25 GB/hour. A single layer DVD has about 4.7 GB.
Name: MPEG-2 for DVD
Description: MPEG-2 elementary stream for DVD Authoring
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 2.25 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Width and Height: Automatic
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: Automatic
Selected 4:3
Field dominance: Automatic
Average bit rate automatic,
selected: 5 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum bit rate: 7.5 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 1/2 second, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled -
I agree that 120 minutes should fill up more of the DVD than 1/8. It certainly did using FCP7 and the associated Final Cut Studio to produce the DVD. Since moving to X, I have wondered if the old DVD studio program can still be used to assemble DVD’s using X and the new compressor to generate the MPEG2 files. On the other hand, since I always gave away my finished product, it is much easier and higher res to use Vimeo and Youtube now to distribute it.
As Bill Davis noted, Hollywood DVD’s are much better because of sophisticated compression schemes. I always wondered how they did that.
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Sounds like a great ending. Good to hear that sometimes Apple cares. It would be interesting to know how to arrange the workflow and project organization for large projects to avoid this kind of meltdown.