Gary Milligan
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Sorry for the delay in responding.
[Thomas Hughes] “We use the settings Edit to Tape Apple Intermediate Codec 60.”
I’m confused by this – I don’t understand why or where in your workflow you use the Edit To Tape function. Apple Intermediate Codec is a poor choice.
[Thomas Hughes] “We export with QuickTime to get the program into an .mov file.”
To get the best quality QuickTime Movie export out of Final Cut use the ‘Current Settings’, DO NOT select ‘Recompress All Frames’, and DO select ‘Make Movie Self-Contained’. This will make an exact duplicate QuickTime file of your timeline using the same codec used in your sequence settings (what are your sequence settings?). Don’t export ‘Using Compressor’ or ‘Using QuickTime Conversion’ – doing this will recompress your timeline sequence. I’m guessing that somewhere in your workflow you’ve done some recompressing and introduced a field order change.
HTH
Gary
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How are you exporting out of Final Cut?
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[wayne kurtz] “The apple store suggested loading the media directly on the internal HD (rather than use external FW or thunderbolt). As my internal HD is partioned, I have tried that suggestion. Still crashes with hi-def, but not with sd.”
It’s never a good idea to have your media on your system drive. Use an external with at least a firewire 800 connection.
[wayne kurtz] “The media was shot with sony pmw 350 at 1920×1080 and extracted with sony xd cam software. The compressor of the media is sony xdcam ex 1080i60 (35 mb/s vbr) at 29.97 fps”
I think you should be transcoding to ProRes 422. It’s a much more edit friendly codec (for FCP). What codec does your colleague use?
HTH
Gary
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[Rich Sigerist] “I can’t see anything in the enclosure that looks like a power supply.”
The other posters may actually be referring to the external power adaptor block that plugs into the drive enclosure. I can’t speak to the G-RAID drives, but I’ve had a similar problem with OWC Maximus drives that was solved by replacing the AC power adaptor.
HTH
Gary
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The Toast menus are in your SYSTEM library, not your HOME library.
However, I disagree (respectfully) with Danny. Whenever I make a Blu-ray disc with Toast I always use my own Photoshop created menu pages – but, they’re not at all interactive. By that I mean, there’s no scene selection, no displaying additional menus, etc. – just your custom graphic that displays until you press ‘play’ on your remote and appears when you press ‘menu’. I don’t have any kind of computer Blu-ray player so I can’t say anything about mouse navigation.
The process: after you have dragged your movie file into the main Toast window (for Blu-ray Video) select the ‘Edit’ button which opens another window that includes a player. Unless you want to change your start and end times, don’t change anything in the player section. To the right of that is where you can edit the Text, Chapters, and audio filters – we’re concerned only with the ‘Text’ (unless you want to change the others of course). With the ‘Text’ button selected there are three panels that are filled in by default with info from your movie file – file name, creation date, and length. This is text that will show up automatically on your finished menu page in a default font and placement. Unless you want that, get rid of them by highlighting the text in each panel and deleting it – or, you could put in whatever info you may want to display, but it will be in the default font and placement (you can change the color – we’ll get to that later). When you’ve deleted (or customized) the text, click OK. Back in the main window, select the ‘Options’ button (upper right corner), select the ‘Splash’ menu in the ‘Menu Style’ drop down list, then click on ‘Customize’. Another window opens showing the menu image and some other selection options. Drag (or select) the menu image you created in Photoshop (1920 x 1080). The ‘Menu Title’ defaults to ‘My Movie’ – delete that. Click on the little magnifying glass just below the menu image and (guess what) the image magnifies. Even though you’ve deleted the default text, ‘My Movie’ will probably still show up (in two separate places) on the image but don’t worry… it won’t (shouldn’t) be there when it’s all said and done. In fact, the lower placed ‘My Movie’ can be helpful when establishing the Button Highlight Color. Each of the Toast Menu Styles has a default button style. The reason I use the ‘Splash’ menu is because its default button is a simple dot (•). You can’t eliminate the button – you always have to have at least one – but you can change the color. Unless you want the button to stand out, and depending on how picky you are, this next step can be quite time consuming because it means you have to actually burn a disc to see the results. When the ‘Number of Buttons’ is set to one, that button is located in its default position immediately to the left of the lower ‘My Movie’ text. In order for the button to disappear or blend in with the custom menu graphic, it requires the Button Highlight Color to be the same as where it will appear on the menu. Clicking on the Button Highlight Color selection box will open the color selection window. Use the magnifying glass to select the color in the area just left of the ‘My Movie’ text. As I said, the only way to actually see the result is to burn a disc and play it. I always burn to a re-writable disc for this reason before making my final discs.
That’s the basic process… and if you want a more interactive custom menu, experiment using the other Toast menus with their default buttons as a guide to creating your own in Photoshop as Danny suggested.
HTH
Gary
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[kurt johnson] “For this project I’ve uploaded fifty minutes of continuos video (mov.) taken on a canon mincam. 6gb I know it is a big file. “
50 minutes = 6 GB… that’s not a big file at all if it’s ProRes (or other edit-friendly codec), which it should be if you want to use FCP. As Shane said, “Unless it is an editing codec FCP deals with, FCP will want to render.”
Gary
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[Tim Voelker] ” I tried the uninstaller first. “
Was the uninstaller you tried the one in the 1.7 version? I welcome being corrected by someone with more knowledge on this – I believe the Uninstaller is tied to the version you want to uninstall. I don’t know if a newer version Uninstaller will work to completely clear off an older version. I’ve always done it that way. Media 100 tech support should be able to help answer that. Good luck.
Gary
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[Tim Voelker] “I went through and manually deleted everything having to do with Media 100, Boris, Red, etc. “
In your Media 100 (1.7) Folder inside the Applications Folder. there should be an Uninstaller – run that to be sure of getting rid of everything before installing the update.
HTH
Gary
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[Dale Fairless] “I’m running a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM with 120GB free on my hard drive. And I’m running everything on the local machine, no external devices. “
You really should have your media on an external 7200 rpm drive with at least a Firewire 800 connection.
ClipWrap also coverts .mts files.
HTH
Gary
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Please let us know how it works out. Thanks
Gary