Don Greening
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Try exporting a new self-contained QT movie without the audio. Then make sure all your audio is rendered in the FCP timeline. Export the audio separately using the ‘audio to aif’ command in the export window. Use Compressor to encode the movie, A. Pack to encode the audio. You can then import these two assets into DVDSP and drop them into a track. This has been my workflow for quite some time now and I’ve never had any audio dropouts or sync issues.
Using AC3 file format audio will also prove to be more DVD player ‘friendly’, as the high bit rates of .aif audio tend to make some players choke.
– Don
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You could spend hours trying to figure out why it’s dropping frames when printing to tape, everything from the audio mixdown thing to trashing FCP pref. files. The work around is to render a self-contained QT movie, then a new sequence in FCP, import your movie and print to tape. If you’re still dropping frames, just hit record on the deck and hit play in FCP. Afterwards you can delete the new sequence and the self-contained movie, if you don’t need it. Make sense?
– Don
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I got that error message for the first time about a month ago. Since I dodn’ know what to do I just trashed my assets and created new files. This means new QT movies out of FCP. Worked for me, but I still don’t know why the problem appeared in the first place.
– Don
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HSF+ and Mac OS Extended are the same thing. Turn journaling on for use with a startup drive and turn it off if you’re formatting a media drive.
– Don
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Louis,
Just a friendly reminder that when you buy your FW drive make sure the first thing you do after you hook it up to your Mac is to reformat the drive in Mac OS Extended using Apple’s Disk Utility. You’ll notice that the LaCie Porche drives you’ve got listed are both formatted in FAT32, which is the formatting used when you want to use the drive with both Mac and Windows
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Over the last few days I’ve heard that one of the few European countries that you should still be prepared to send a PAL DVD to is Italy. Apparently they don’t have as many of the newer PAL/NTSC televisions as some of the more tech savy countries do. This fact was posted a few days ago by someone living in Italy.
Just thought you shoould be aware of this.
– Don
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Try restarting from your operating system installation disk and then deleting the files you want from your startup drive. Because the computer is now using a different operationg system than the one on your startup drive, the files will no longer be in use and you should be able to trash them.
– Don
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debe,
I also thought that the file size limit for FAT32 was 2 Gbytes until about 6 months ago when someone in the forum pointed out that the limit had been increased to 4 Gbytes. Check it out @ Microsoft.com
– Don
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If the failure is occuring at the same place each time (check for the percentage completed) it may be a piece of corrupt media. Do you have a still picture in there somewhere like a .jpeg?
– Don
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Dave,
In order to allow a hard drive to be used by both platforms you need to format the drive in FAT32 binary. I’m not sure but I think the Mac OS program Disk Utility might be able to do this. The big thing to remember here is that you cannot have any shared files larger than 4 GBytes in size or you invite read problems. Bear in mind that I’ve personally never done any hard drive file sharing between platforms. I’m just going by what others have recommended and what the file size limitations for FAT32 are as per the Microsoft Website.
Others here have recommended a program that allows a Windows machine to read (or even write to) a Mac HFS+ formatted disk. I just can’t remember at the moment what the darn program name is. I do know that the software is made to be installed on the Windows machine, and not the other way around.
Hope this helps.
– Don