[Fred Miller]

I do some editing in hotel rooms with a powerbook. I don’ t have the luxury of external mixers or ampified speakers and I’m capturing straight out of the cameral via firewire. If your ever in this situation remember that most cameras have a small speaker for monitoring audio playback. Just turn up the volume on the camera and you can hear your source for logging and capturing. I only mention it because it’s a little used feature on the camera and usually it’s turned way down, so you may forget about it.

[Fred Miller]

I echo Media management PLEASE!

Also PLEEEEEASE fix the mastering tool so that the buttons ACTUALLY work instead of having to drag and drop the sequence on that overlay. I’m sick of explaining to new users about this silly bug that makes a professional application come off as extremely unprofessional.

[Fred Miller]

I’ve used both AVID P&Z and FCP. They are just about the same as far as quality. If you’re seeing a lot of yuckiness during movement, then add a little motion blur. Also make sure (if it’s still) that your positions (x & Y) are whole numers.

hope this helps

[Fred Miller]

I think you need to ask your client more questions. It sounds as if he’s describing a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with an auto executable file, but that’s just crazy talk. It opens up the “end user” pandora’s box.

COMPRESSOR encodes MPEG video and AIFF audio separately and then you must mux it together. I haven’t done anything like that in years and never with COMPRESSOR files. COMPRESSSOR was designed to make files (audio and video) that would then be brought into a DVD authoring program like DVD studio pro. That’s where the muxing normally happens, when your building the VIDEO TS folder contents before burning to disk.

I would suggest talking your client into a normally authored DVD and then make sure it’s authored to play in the appropriate zones for DVD playback where ever he’s going. A DVD, if authored correctly, will behave exactly the way he describes what he’s asked you to give, but with a lot less hassle.

You need to ask your client to explain EXACTLY (what’s he playing this disc in? Is that device feeding an external monitor? Is it for large group, or will they be huddled around his laptop? Does this device play DVD’s?) how he’s planning on using these files. It’s the only way to understand if that’s what he really needs. If he insists on what you described in your original post, I’m sorry, this has been no help.