Eric Strand
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This all depends on what you guys are shooting and doing with your footage. ProRes is much higher quality than HDV, yes bigger file sizes, but also higher quality, color depth, and bit depth. While HDV is still used, it mostly used by consumers, if at all and will likely not be around in the future.
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You’re right in that you’ll bring your audio and video in on separate tracks. If you’re video is less than 120 mins and you’re using the DVD Best Settings 120 mins for m2v video and dolby digital audio (you have to drag both the audio and video settings up), those files will fit onto a DVD. What are you doing when you import into DVD SP?
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How big is your video if you export a self-contained QT movie? If it’s under 2GB just upload that version, it will take a while, but it’s the highest possible upload you’ll achieve since you didn’t have to compress it.
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Wanted to post an update for this thread. I spent a bunch of time going back and forth with Matrox’s support, they had great support by the way, and we narrowed down the issue being the frame rate setting in the Movie > Settings> Frame Rate dialog box. Instead of using “Current Rate”, you have to manually set the frame rate to the frame rate of your footage, e.g. 29.97 or 23.976. When you do that, the compressed files end up with the correct data rate and playback smoothly.
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Hey Paul,
I’m concerned that Toast maybe re-compressing your footage once you bring it in, with means your already compressed footage is being compressed again.
You can certainly burn in DVDSP, once you create your menu and whatnot, simply click Build & Format at the top. -
Exporting a reference movie from FCP then bringing that into Compressor will likely speed up your encoding times, rather than “export to Compressor”. Are your DVD settings in Compressor correct in terms of frame rate, progressive/interlaced, etc? Why are you going from DVD Studio Pro to Toast as opposed to just burning in DVDSP?
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Sounds great Stuart. I look forward to your email.
Eric
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I totally agree about P2, I’m not saying I prefer one or the other. I just meant I’d be happy if all our footage was DSLR or P2 stuff, like single, one minute clips. (Obviously, it’s beyonod our control as it gets shipped to us.) It gets messy and annoying trying to log and then archive when you add in half hour or 2 hour videos comprised of an interview, b-roll, another interview, some backplates. Now you have a mixture of subclips that have been transcoded, native files, everything has different names, half with TC, half not…ah! But that’s the world we live in now so…
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I think the point that Craig is making regarding shorter clips vs capturing entire tapes is one that is overlooked and not talked about enough. It makes it a huge pain in the ass having to figure out how to log and store both shorter clips from DSLR cameras, with no TC, and material captured from tape. We just started using CatDV here and we still largely shoot DVCPROHD tape. At the same time, we just received about 15,000 P2 clips from a client, some of which are native off the camera, some of which have been combined into 2 hour clips. When you subclip the two hour clips in CatDV, you get files with names ######.01, ######.02, but that references that 2 hour clip, which of course confuses producers. I think when we talk about media management, whether it be FCPX or CatDV, short clips off of cards and long captures from tapes is a larger issue than people realize (not you guys here, I’m saying in general)
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Hey Matt,
Just submitted a ticket to the Squarebox guys.