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Excellent, thank you. I’ll give it a try.
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It looks like my workflow is identical to Ken’s. Well, except I export directly to Compressor rather than exporting to a Quicktime movie first. Other than, we’re doing everything the same. I guess I just need to experiment with CBR of 7-7.2. I’ll also try the Bonsai method.
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Does this conversion of HDV to SD that Ken refers to still apply with the latest version of final cut studio? I didn’t use the previous version, so I don’t know if it was possible to export right to compressor. It seems like his process is adding extra compression because it means exporting to Quicktime, then converting to mpeg-2 in Compressor, whereas with this new version, you can just export right to compressor and skip the Quicktime compression.
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With Final Cut Studio 2 using Compressor 3, is there any reason to continue using the Bonsai method, or have those problems been fixed in this latest version of the software?
I may try the Bonsai method today using a 2-3 minute clip and compare with what I already have.
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I am still new to editing. I’ve done a lot of little home movie projects using Sony Vegas Studio and Premier Elements, but this is my first experience editing with HDV and Final Cut Studio.
I’ve never really learned about bitrates. Is the purpose of VBR to encode the high motion areas using a higher bit rate and the lower motion areas using a lower bitrate, and the end result is that it saves space? With a project this small I guess I could just use a higher bitrate for everything since I don’t have to worry about space.
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If I were to use Sorenson or Bitrate, how would I get from FCP to one of those applications? Is there a way to export directly from FCP to them, or would I just create a reference file? What I like about going to Compressor is that FCP doesn’t encode anything, so the footage only gets compressed one time.
Also, can I really expect a significant improvement in encoding quality if I use one of these tools instead of Compressor? I guess I could download a trial and use it. The DVD footage would have a watermark, but that would be fine for testing.
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Interesting. A guy at the company we bought the equipment from suggested always filming in the highest resolution possible. In this case, that would be HDV-HD30p. Then, in the software, just use that footage to create a standard resolution dvd with the 16:9 aspect ratio.
So, you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if we film in SD or HD, if the final output is standard resolution, it’s going to be the same?