[David Dicanio]

Thanks very much for everyones help.

I’ll have to work on this. I’ll look into the plug in for Encore. Or the TMP GENC. I’m assuming it’s stand alone?

I actually do have an avi file that I exported out of the whole project. Am I right that I should be trying to reencode from that, or from the mpeg file. This is all new to me. Sorry. Thanks.

dave

[David Dicanio]

Hi Lucas:

Thanks very much.

Pardon my ignorance but I have another question on this.

This may not be as serious as I thought. I just looked at my mpeg2 file that I exported out of my Ligos encoder from my old computer. The video file says m2v, the audio says wav. If it were mpeg audio it would say “.mpeg” right? This tells me that my original export is good, but I must have done the wrong settings when I authored the dvd in Adobe Audition cs3. Am I right on this? Apparently I transcoded the wav file to mpeg audio w/o realizing it. Not even sure where the settings are.

So bottom line, should my mpeg audio have an “.mpeg” extension or “.wav” extension. Thanks.

[David Dicanio]

Thanks for all the help. I’ll give it a try.

[David Dicanio]

Sorry, should have put this in the Photoshops Basics.

[David Dicanio]

I’d like to throw in my two cents. Not disagreeing with what’s been said. I just today bit the $2300 bullet and bought myself an Arri kit, with Chimera softbox and fabric grid.

For the last four years I’ve been shooting with a cheap but rather remarkable 3 – 500watt softbox kit, that is not perfect, but is major bang for the buck. The kit is called a JTL Everlight kit ( https://www.jtl-lighting.com/ ). The kit is only $500, and you get 3 softboxes, 3 stands, and 3 lamps. I added egg-creates ($87 each). They say you can use 750 watt and 1000 watt, but that’s not true, they overheat and shut off. 500 watt is the max.

I’ve flown to Kenya, Spain, Ireland, and throughout the States shooting with this kit and it’s given me very little trouble. It’s not super rugged, but for the money, it’s a very good start. I added an LTM 420 Pepper as a kicker light, and used a Lowel Omni for a background light. I regularly used a reflector for the fill, but sometimes used the second softbox with a 300 watt lamp for fill. It looked quite nice.

This kit, with an Omni and Pepper would easily fit your budget.

[David Dicanio]

Hi George:

Yeah, I’m using Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum. I’m selecting “make a data CD,” and then the option “Use your DVD recordable drive to store up to 4.7 GB of data.” So I just burned the VIDEO_TS and the AUDIO_TS files, as described above.

[David Dicanio]

Here is my situation. Several people have already said they are having trouble playing my DVD-R. I tried something different to save time, and am wondering if this is the problem. I used DVDit LE to burn my project out to a DVD-R. Sent a few of them out, no one had problems. Then I decided, to save time I would just right click on the DVD-R in the CD-ROM drive, and open it, and then copy the two files “AUDIO_TS” and “VIDEO_TS” onto my hard drive. I then used Easy CD Creator to make a DVD-R “data” CD, and just burned those two files onto it. It worked in my PC DVD player, and also in my television DVD player, a Mintek. But the same people are having trouble with this new way I did it.

Is there a difference between authoring a DVD-R out of DVDit LE from an MPEG2, OR copying that authored DVD’s files to a DVD-R disk in Easy CD Creator? Aren’t the files, just files no matter what?

Thanks for any help.

[David Dicanio]

Here is the link to show what I mean. The good one (mpeg) looks nice, but note what happens with the lower quality stream copy. You can even see his hand coming up below the title designer fake 16X9 mask. I did stretch it way down in the title designer, but it does not cover that lower section.

Right click and Save Target As on first one (the mpeg), but click on second one (wmv).

https://www.christianmediafilms.com/sandbox/test%20school%20good.mpg

https://www.christianmediafilms.com/sandbox/test%20school%20bad.wmv

[David Dicanio]

I’ve noticed someone on the FCP forum had a similar problem as you:

“…i dont like compressor. I’ve got artifacts flyin all over the place.”

The suggestion was to tweak the settings or purchase BitVice to get extremely clean compression. Don’t know what that is, but it was recommended by…

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

[David Dicanio]

I ended up buying the 55mm plug in from Digital Film Tools. I was amazed at the power of those plug-ins. I never realized there were such things to fix something like this. Naturally it would have been better to get the shot right first, but this plug in made it acceptable.

The first is the original where the window, which was a nice blue with curtains, turned total white from the sun coming out stronger than when I started the interview.

https://daviddicanio.home.mindspring.com/BJ55m-orig.bmp

The second one is my fix. It looks a little dark on a computer mointor, but looks nice on my timeline monitor.

https://daviddicanio.home.mindspring.com/BJ55mm-fix.bmp

Just wanted to get back with folks.