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Your best bet might be to use something like Combustion or possibly After Effects, which are totally scaleable. Are you shooting with a camera layed on its side???

DRW

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Liam,

Virtually all DVDs are MPEG2 at 720×480. In this case just you just have to make certain to “flag” or check the correct box in your encoder that ids your project as “anamorphic.” It will then play wide screen on a 16×9 TV and 4×3 on SD TVs.

Good luck,
DRW

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Jason,

Don’t take it personally, just learn from the experience. The reality is that asking for informed help requires that you provide basic information so we can help. Please understand, there are a zillion frustrated people who do the same thing everyday, and it really frustrates those of us who want to help, because we have to exchange additional messages just to get the most basic information. Do that over and over again and it gets old fast…

You evidently did not understand what I said before about max bit rate. Just because you can fit the project on disc at 9.5Mbps, that isn’t the goal. That bit rate is too high and your disc will not play correctly in many DVD players. It is a common mistake to shoot for the highest bit rate, imagining that it is best, when it fact it causes problems.

Also, as I said before, always encode audio to AC3. It is the industry standard because it yileds minimum file sizes, keeps overhead to a minimum, but at no hit on quality.

Hope this helps…

DRW

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Hal,

If you are capturing from within your project the media should be automatically captured into a job specific sub-directory inside the larger directory containing your scrtach disk. If not, then you’ve missed something in setup.

DRW

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Jason,

1. You’ve not bothered to mention the software you’re trying to use, and that wastes everyone’s time. Since all DVDs are MPEG2, your AVI is being encoded by the mysterious program you haven’t mentioned — no one can tell you if this is the source of your issues without knowing which program you’re using.

2. The objective of DVD ceation is not just to fit the project onto the DVD — the max bit rate should be between 6.5 to 7.0Mbps or you will get the skipping you’ve encountered.

3. Always use AC3 audio encoding.

DRW

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[Mike Hennessey] “I have some MP3s created from a mini disk recording that I converted to AIFFs and imported them into FCP5 and I can

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Thanks Curtis!!! Very helpful stuff.

DRW

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Hey Bret,

Based on your arguments so far, let me ask you a question that may get you thinking in a slightly different mode.

What would you imagine might be the difference to a video person, like yourself, between a scan made on a $200 scanner vs. one made a $10000.00 scanner?

Looking forward to your answer…

DRW

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Huh, seems to me that your experience is different from both mine and from Kalunga’s. Its clear your Epson is an exception to the rule. Since that clearly won’t help Kalunga in this case, maybe you should send him your scanner?

DRW

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Andrew,

You bought the whole box, and Apple did a great job filling it up great stuff. You’ll never know what you’re missing if you don’t install the whole load. Just bite the bullet, go to http://www.newegg.com and get yourself a new Maxtor Maxline III 250gb SATA or IDE hard drive for under $120. here’s no excuse for cheaping out on harddrive space anymore.

DRW