[David Bogie]

I don’t use iDVD but I usually use the export as reference method to go to DVDSP.
This has a few drawbacks but, until a production is completely golden, I use reference movies to burn DVDs for approvals and testing of the authoring.

See the FCP manual for exporting as reference. Then just drop the icon onto iDVD or import it. Then let iDVD handle the compression and encoding to MPEG2 for you. I uses the same engine as Compressor.

Umm, as I say, I do not use iDVD but I’m fairly certain it support reference movies.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Don’t buy a computer based on money alone.
Choose the operating system you want to live with for the long term.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Interesting piece on facing the blank canvas at kenstone.net:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/blank_canvas_cotter.html

As others have noted, the most interesting effects are often the simplest. No one is as good at this as Dean Valez and he provides tons of his best stuff free for the ripping off:
https://theanvel.com/

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> Does anyone know this process as to draw out lines to form a logo.< By "draw out" do you mean like extrude? Or draw out as make it look like it's being drawn by a pencil? bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Allow me to add:

1. Find out what the projector’s maximum resolution is.
2. Find out how the video will be fed to the projector because that will determine your codec and resolution for delivery. If you get to use a computer, h.264 is perfect for scalable delivery. As Flip says, you need time to experiment or at lest time to talk to other users of the same system.
3. 640×480 is about 300,000 pixels per frame, 1080×720 is only about twice the number of pixels but imposes a geometric progression in rendering calculations as those pixels interact with other layers. A 15 minute render in DV can become 2 hours in HD. A 2 hour 3d render in DV can turn into an overnighter in 3d for HD.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

This is just my workflow suggestion:
you want to stay flexible when editing.
Create your lower third movies in AE but do not place your text on thim in AE. Bring them into your FCP project as movies and use LiveType, Motion or any of FCP’s fully capable text systems.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

ah, two strikes. Rats, Whew, good thing you’re around to clear this up, poor guy could have wated freakin’ hours rendering his t/c. Hours.

But at least I got the H.264 nonsense correct.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Those video guys are spending a lot of time encoding to h.264. And they don’t even need to. You get the file and have to waste the same amount of time to un-encode it back to a format that you can use. H.264 is s distribution format, not an editing format.

These things were so much easier in the olden days when everyone used film.

Hope you get it figured out.

On the t/c render question:
All you need to do is apply the t/c filter to anything, ay a black slug, maybe not even that, and render it over a transparent background so you only see the numbers in a box (or the numbers only). Use a codec that supports alpha like Animation. Bringing that movie file back in and placing it on top of the video track will process much faster.

Still faster, render yellow or white t/c characters out over black. Import the movie and use the Screen blend mode. It requires no processing of the alpha channel but it might not be as crystal sharp as you want.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Your challenge will be in satisfying the need for reality. Lie detectors use a swinging arm that traces arcs. Most other medical equipment uses a linear trace. This is one of the things that distinguish lie detectors from other similar doodads for a hip audience.

However, most current lie detector equipment uses a computer display. That’s easy to do. My favorite substitutes or adds Vegas to the list of filters mentioned in the various tutorials.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> I don’t think you have used the Media Manager in the last couple of years. Hell no it’s not perfect, but man it seems to work alright in later version of FCP and it’s never as bad as you make it to be. < You are to be applauded for having the patience and ability to have worked out your procedures so cleanly. I suffer from old habits, true. But when I do use Media Manager for any of its many purported uses, the results never reflect what I thought they'd be; that is "never." Your results are in direct opposition to mine. Someday I hope shall have developed your MM skills. > And for the record, why do always tell people to close multiple threads?< Because people like you would benefit from a synopsis of the various suggestions offered. The thread on Apple, with contributions from several top notch wonks, seems to support my point of view: The MM process is unnecessarily convoluted and fraught with gotchas. Your claims that MM works for you imply you have supreme skills. I bow to your abilities but for me, Media Manager bites. Totally. Without question. > Who cares? < I do, sort of, but only enough to request, as in "please close your threads," some small bit of online forum etiquette. It's important to me the conflicting advice and incorrect information be shared widely. > He posted here, he can close here if wants to or not. Like me, this is the first time that many of us has seen his question.< I don't really care if he closes any of them. But so many folks ask questions that result in threads full of conflicting or mutually exclusive answers. It would be great to know what helped and which suggestions were totally wrong. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”