Ed Dooley
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The spec for MPEG-2 DVDs is 720×480, which can be 4:3 or 16:9 (when flagged as such). If you want a 640×360, you would go with a QT H.264 or something else(which wouldn’t play in a set-top DVD player though).
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The 720×404 number is not real. QuickTime sometimes shows 720×480 files erroneously as 720×404. If you open it MPEGStreamClip or another program it will tell you it’s 720×480. If your client is talking about Hollywood movie DVDs, tell him yours can look that good too, all you need is a $100,000 camera, and a $50,000 hardware MPEG-2 encoder, and a salary and budget to take as long as necessary to make your blockbuster film look that good. In other words, it’s apples to oranges. Having said that, there are always tweaks you can do with software to help: you can play with color, saturation, contrast, and curves, etc., you can tweak the GOP, you can use a better software encoder than Compressor, which, while good, is not the best.
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Skinny like a garbage compactor, hmmm, let’s see,
with all that technical information I should be able to help.
Or, not. Give us some real info, like, what format is your sequence in, what are the settings you’re using to export?
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You asked a very general and vague question, hence my vague and general response. It all depends on what you want to do, some things are way faster, other things are actually slower. Do a search, you’ll find places like barefeats.com and a bunch of others that have all the tests and charts.
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Yep, they’re faster.
Ed[chris rogers] “Howdy,
Has anyone read any speed info or benchmarks on the new MacPros?
I’m using it to do REDRushes and Color rendering.
Right now I’m using 2x3GHz Quadcore Xeon / 8GB Ram..
thx!
Chris”
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Do a search man!! there are a bunch. here’s just one of many links:
https://www.toolfarm.com/plugins/index.php/Free_Plug-ins
Scroll down to FCP plug ins and then click on Haiku.
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If you mean you want to give your client a BlueRay DVD, then do what Walter says. But if you want your client to see the HD video you just edited, but they don’t need to see it as a BlueRay video on an HDTV, then make an H.264 HD video. You have Compressor, make a 1280×720 or 1920×1080 H.264 video at a very high data rate, it will look awesome, and you can burn it to a regular DVD for replay on your client’s computer.
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My brain must be working differently than yours. I read “I need to kill someone” and my brain wonders who that might be, then I see Zelin’s name. I saw him as the most likely target, not the contractor. 🙂
Ed[walter biscardi] “[Bob Zelin] “damn, I thought someone needed my services ! ”
My thoughts exactly! I was just about to pick up the phone to call you and then I read the body of the post……..
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I use Joe’s Filters’ Soft Gradient, but you can build your own to suit.
Edhttps://www.joesfilters.com/joes_soft_gradients
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It happens if you’re doing a capture, and while capturing you decide to look at your Facebook page, send an e-mail, or fine-tune that graphic in Photoshop. If you are in the middle of capturing, and you click elsewhere, into another program or even within FCP, the Escape key will not recognize that it’s supposed to stop the capture. Make sure that the capture window is the active window (clicking on it while capturing will confirm that).
Ed