[Doug Buckser]

G’day,

My understanding is that DV should be exported to video as MPEG-2. It is then suitable for importing it into DVD Studio Pro. The extension should be m2v. In my experience, this copies across with no loss of quality.

Regards,
Doug

[Doug Buckser]

G’day Tom,

Thanks for the message.

If I undertand you correctly, scene detection appears to be a good thing. That is, leaving the two seconds of the previous scene for transition purposes was counter-productive.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Doug

[Doug Buckser]

G’day,

If it’s not bad form to reply to one’s own message, the issue appears to be automatic scene detection by FCP when capturing HDV footage. That is, when a scene changes (determined by a start/stop), a new clip is automatically created.

The Visual Quickpro Guide (page 193) says this scene detection feature is a significant improvement, but I’m not sure why. I can see how it’s nice to have clips automatically created, but it does create issues if you want to have transitions with clips which don’t have extra footage at the end (i.e., you want to use the entire clip in the video).

That small complaint made, it’s a wonderful product and I’m enjoying learning how to use it.

Regards,
Doug