[David Gladstone]

Dave,
You’ve been a great help and I’ve already been able to toast a DVD. Now I need to force myself to carefully watch two hours of what I’ve been looking at for 9 weeks and convince I’m still interested. I know if I don’t I’ll be shocked when hearing about a terrible mistake I could’ve caught.

I’ll let you know if I live through the stress.

[David Gladstone]

thanks Joey, I hope I didn’t sound flippant, I appreciate the help.
I skipped compressor and went direct to Toast. I need to watch it now and see if it’s OK.
I’ll let you know, and again thanx for the help

[David Gladstone]

Now I’m totally confused. I don’t really understand what “self contained ” means. and what if I don’t use compressor, I just go to “TOAST” and author a DVD? Is the quality going to suffer?

Please I need to understand more than I do.

Thanx

Dave

[David Gladstone]

Thanks a mil,
Going for it.

[David Gladstone]

Yes, I’ve always done export to QT conversion, then to Toast with great results, but the sheer numbers of hours (two plus days) to convert to QT is a killer. are you suggesting I just make a stand alone QT movie(not a conversion)? Will that work to then Author??

This is great help and I will spend time learning Compressor, I just need to get this job out with high quality.

[David Gladstone]

Thanks Dave,
You’re correct about “desire the best possible looking authored DVD” Also correct about being able to play in any DVD player, it would be really good if it could play on a Mac & a PC.
I usually use Toast to author to DVD. It’s always been good to me. What do you think?

Some questions:
1- Any special Codec? Or just “current settings”?
2- Where will I find the 2 hour pre-set? & if my project is longer than 2 hours will it matter?
3- Afterwards can I author with Toast? Or do you recommend DVD studio Pro?

Thanx again,
Dave

[David Gladstone]

I did, I also thought you might have some follow up ideas.

[David Gladstone]

I think this is also my problem. I am working with a Mac Pro G5, 2X 500 inboard HD, 1.5 TB external USB HD (that has all the raw footage), 4 gig Ram, FCP 6.0.6 and am trying to export QT conversion, best quality H264, 720X480 (16:9). The project is 2 hours long, 4 camera shoot, no effects at all.

It has been exporting for 11 hours, seems stuck at 14% complete (for at least 3 hours) and estimated time for completion is 2 days.

Is there any way to speed this up? If I were to buy an external fire wire drive would it take a long time to transfer everything to the Fire wire? Would it speed up the project immensely?

I’m already late with this project.

Please advise.
Thanx,
Dave