Ed Dooley
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Use a professional video monitor. The i in 1080i is interlacing, that’s what you’re seeing, it’s supposed to be there. Do a search on this forum and you may see hundreds of posts about it.
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What are you compressing the audio to? It should be the AAC setting (at 194), not Linear PCM.
You can also make a custom preset by duplicating an existing preset. Then you can use a VBR setting with a lower range of average and maximum to get the file size down. I’m just guessing here, but I’d guess that you’re not compressing the audio. If you are then you should be able to compress 2 hours to a single layer disc. Tell us more about your settings/choices.
Ed[Angela Zumbrum] “Okay….so, I have now exported my Reception Sequence (2 hrs.) through compressor using the 150 min. apple template setting. I also used compressor to export my Ceremony (45 min.) through compressor using the apple template for 90 mins. I brought both of these MP@ files into DVDSP. I went from 13.3 gigs to 5.5 gigs within DVDSP. I have made progress. TWO Problems:
1. I burned normally at 5.5 and am still getting the “Not enough disk space message”
2. I then burned using the “dual layer” option in DVDSP and it burned successfully, but when playing back on TV, it stopped 3/4 of the way through my reception…freeze frame.
Any more direction on DVDSP settings once I have it to 5.5??”
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Which is sort of what Patricia “Chicken” Cheng is asking us to do. 🙂
Ed[Mark Suszko] “This is probably covererd in the Guerilla marketing book somewhere, but one common strategy is to have other people do the work for you as much as possible,”
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The simplest thing to do is use one of Compressor’s Presets. If your video is anything under 90 minutes use the 90Minutes Best preset. If it’s longer use a preset for a longer video. Then bring those video and audio (use the AAC audio setting in Compressor) files into DVDSP.
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I learned the hard way (meaning paying hundreds of dollars extra for baggage) how to fly on RyanAir,
buy an extra seat. I fly from Ireland most often (Irish citizen), and mostly in the late fall and early spring (when the weather’s still good, but the tourists and the higher prices they bring are absent).
Their carry-on and checked baggage restrictions are stiff because they’re designed to be a weekend getaway or quick business trip airline. When you buy an extra seat you can pack a production bag with 100 pounds of stuff and strap it into a seat. I’ve paid as little as $5 USD (total) for a flight from Spain to London, so that extra seat is a bargain. Can’t always do it, but when it works it’s very good.
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I haven’t been asked to produce any Silverlight content. My corporate and institutional clients are pretty much in the dark ages technologically. It’s almost always either a dual format delivery of WM9 and H.264 QT, or an ON2VP6 Flash file (ocassionally all 3).
Silverlight just got me pissed off recently. I travel in Europe a lot, and usually have 3 or 4 destinations per trip, so I try to fly intra-Europe on RyanAir or EasyJet to save $. RyanAir’s website now requires Silverlight for their Destinations interactive map. My home Mac still has 10.3.9, which precludes me seeing the map at all (it requires 10.4.8). Arggghh (leftover from yesterday being International Pirate Day)!!!!!
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When you import the file into DVDSP it doesn’t just burn it to a DVD, it compresses it first (using the same engine as Compressor). I never go from FCP straight to DVDSP, I go through Compressor first. But are you saying that DVDSP wouldn’t start the compression of the file because it was too big, or that you thought it was too big to fit on a DVD (not knowing that DVDSP would do the compressing before the authoring or burning? Did DVDSP accept the file? Did you start the process to see if it would start compressing? As you were advised in the other posts, try going from FCP to Compressor, either exported to Compressor directly or using the QT route you already did.
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I guess it is a bit vague, they don’t say 2 in the release, but they don’t say 3. Here’s what Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft says though (from Sitepoint):
>>>In advance of the IBC Conference starting later this week in Amsterdam, Microsoft today announced support for H.264 and AAC in its Silverlight API. Microsoft will be demonstrating a working tech demo of Silverlight with H.264 and AAC support, though I was told by Brian Goldfarb, Director of Developer Platform and Tools at Microsoft, that it won’t be available to the public until Silverlight 3. Silverlight 2 is expected to ship later this fall.<<< I haven't been asked for H.264 content playable in Silverlight. My question to Ben was "does this mean I can encode one file (H.264) that will now play in QT, Flash, and Silverlight?" That would be nice, if possible. Ed -
Thanks Daniel,
Happy to have you jump in. I referenced Ben because, well.. he’s the Silverlight guy.
Both the links you showed actually show H.264 coming in Siverlight 3 though, as I said. 🙂
Read ’em carefully.
Ed