[David Mayer]

Frank, I never had much luck going directly to DVD with Final Cut. Can you list chapters

and have a DVD menu button for each chapter?

[David Mayer]

ok – thanks

my problem was not understanding that some or all you tube videos,

i’m not sure which, are PAL – 25 fps – understanding that solved my

problem and i can go back to DVD Studio Pro

[David Mayer]

Yes – i used 2 different apps for downloading youtube videos – they seem to work ok (hoping the malware isn’t too bad)

[David Mayer]

I created a custom setting in Compressor. It is the standard MPEG-2 setting with one change; normally frame rate is “automatic” which must be exactly why everything that starts out PAL, stays PAL (25 fps). I reset that to 29.97.

Is that probably all I have to do?

[David Mayer]

Jeremy,

Thanks for taking the time. Everything went through Compressor using the standard “DVD” button that produces an audio and a video file. That setting has always created NTSC DVDs for me. I wonder if it is still 25 fps even after that, and the DVD software sees that as PAL.

Is there a special way to convert to NTSC in Compressor?

[David Mayer]

it’s not an NTSC problem

I am using NTSC media and making an NTSC DVD like I have in this

work flow for over 10 years. The problem is that DVD Studio Pro is no

longer working properly on an old Mac. I need to reset to factory settings,

which is not working, or get a suggestion for DVD authoring software

like Roxio Toast 19 that works well

to author DVDs on a Mac.

[David Mayer]

Hi Devin – wonder if you can help. I also author DVDs for many years on an old Mac with DVD Studio Pro. All of a sudden I get this message – PAL assets cannot be imported into an NTSC project. My assets are not PAL. Do you know how to fix this, or reset to factory settings or anything like that? I did a lot of troubleshooting – it’s not the FCPX file and it’s not the compressor file creating the problem. Thanks, Dave

[David Mayer]

Great idea. I can’t get audio to record internally. Downloaded the app, didn’t work. Emailed with him and he tried but it didn’t help. I will email him back and ask for a video call. Only other problem i noticed is drift – client records zoom, i record iShowU, after 10 minutes there is drift. Wondering if different software is frame accurate.

[David Mayer]

Thanks, John. My situation is different from yours, and much simpler. Sort of. The client records the 2 hour presentation on zoom. I record it also, but with a different view, so I can edit them together like a 2-camera shoot. I need my recording to be frame-accurate so it syncs with the zoom recording, and I need to record audio from the computer, not from my mic. That last thing seems to often be the spoiler. I am now trying to learn to use Quicktime for my “second cam” recording – easy – and to get it to record audio from the application, not my mic – less easy.

[David Mayer]

awesome, Jeremy – thanks