Ernie Santella
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I was going to add, it would take about 30 minutes for a 14min clip on my DVD Burner. (14 min real-time and then about the same for finalizing) I can compress it and burn a simple auto-play DVD in DVD Studio Pro in about less time!
Ernie Santella
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With an external DVD Burner, it’s a total Manual operation. Park your sequence timeline at the head. Hit record on your Burner, hit play on FCP. That’s it. Hit stop on the Burner at the end of your FCP sequence.
The Burner’s operation is different on all units as far as titling and finalizing the DVD.
Ernie Santella
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Yes, you can. I do it once in a blue moon. I have a old Panny DMR-E80H DVD Recorder. Dave is correct, the finalizing time is killer on short programs. If you have an hour show, it’s not too bad. But, the quality is way better to do it internal in FCP to Compressor to DVD Studio Pro.
You would need some sort of I/O to get the video out of FCP. AJA, Blackmagic etc. to get A/V out to the burner. Again, most DVD burners only have S-video and Composite video inputs, so the quality will suffer.
Not to mention the crappy menus on most DVD burners.Ernie Santella
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I would start with the FCP Notch filter. You can isolate certain frequencies and pull them down. Should work with some of your issues. The FCP Hum filter might also work for some. But, a motorcycle reving is a tough one. The frequency changes, thus you can’t isolate it. But, a good place to start.
If you are not audio-savy, I would seriously consider taking your final tracks to a pro studio to have them work on them. They know the tricks.
Ernie Santella
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What’s the thinking with removing the FW400 ports? I don’t get it. I have some FW400 backup drives and now no way (without a card) to input my HDV or HDX900.
Ernie Santella
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Still lots of questions. There are so many different types of ‘HD’. Formats like HDV are highly compressed all the way to Uncompressed 1080p which would require an extremely fast RAID.
Here’s a few links to read.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/977568
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1022850
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1021735Just use the search function and search ‘RAID’ ‘Storage’ etc. I found these links in minutes. Good Luck. We’ll all help, but it sounds like you don’t completely understand what the differences are yet.
Ernie Santella
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Do a search on the topic. It’s been discussed many times in detail. Plus, you didn’t give any details of what you are doing and on what equipment?
HDV? SD? Uncompressed HD etc? Tower or Laptop? First off, FW800 is pretty limited for editing, especially with HD. Do some research into Fiber, eSATA etc. for faster Raid storage.
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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I do quite a bit of these type of shows. What I do is dissolve to the power-point slides full screen in post. The viewer usually needs to read the information clearly. just seeing it or trying to put it in a wide shot usually won’t work. Mainly because the presenters never understand that small type doesn’t work on TV.
Ernie Santella
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Th SDX900 doesn’t have firewire out. And you can’t get Time-code out the SDI. The HDX900 does have firewire which outputs time-code.
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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“but will a 16:9 DVD play on a regular monitor?”
The answer to your questions is yes. There are two ways to encode a DVD. If your footage/project is in 16:9, then you can encode the DVD anamorphic, which is squeezed. When it plays on a 4:3 monitor, it will be letter-boxed automatically. When played on a 16:9 widescreen monitor, it stretches out the image to fill the entire frame. You get better resolution. If your project is edited in 4:3, it will look fine on a 4:3 monitor, but will only fill the center of a 16:9 monitor, unless you switch the monitor to stretch/zoom which looks bad.
Do a search on ‘Anamorphic’ here on the cow. There is plenty of info and tutorials on the subject.
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
http://www.santellaproductions.com