[Gary Milligan]

I haven’t yet made the plunge to Snow Leopard, but perhaps it’s the same as in Leopard (10.5.8). Select the file you want to change > get info > Open with > Change All.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[Kevin Monahan] “You absolutely CAN burn an AVCHD Blu-ray Disk to a standard DVD, but you need Final Cut Pro 7. No Blu-ray burner necessary! “

Again, I may be wrong, but you CAN do this using Toast (as long as you have the HD plug-in). I have done it (AVCHD Blu-ray) using Toast 10, but haven’t tried it using a standard DVD burner. It may work using Toast 9… try it and let us know.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[Craig Sawchuk] “I’ve never done it, but a while back there were some posts about being able to burn a Hi-Def file onto a regular DVD and have it playback on some Blu-ray players.”

I may be wrong, but I believe you would still need a Blu-ray burner to do this, but using regular DVD discs instead of Blu-ray discs.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[Noah Kadner] “it’s not that hard to install a new internal burner… “

I agree with Noah. Check out – https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/
As long as you’re needing a new drive, why not consider a Blu-ray? This site also provides some easy to follow directions to help with the installation. A few years back, I bought one of their Blu-ray burners as a second internal drive and installed it into my old MDD G4… took me less than an hour… and I generally work slowly and carefully. Later, it was just as painless to remove and install as the second drive when I upgraded to my current Dual Core Intel. Whatever you get, just make sure it’s compatible with all the Apple OS applications you use. If it “talks” with iTunes, iPhoto, DVD Player, etc., it should work with anything.

I’m in no way affiliated with Other World Computing… just a satisfied customer.

HTH

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[brian johnston] “It works with color effects as well as effects applied in Boris.”

Why did I think it wouldn’t work with effects applied in Boris?… silly me. I like it when I learn something new… thanks Brian.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

I started to write a post to agree with you Gregg but then I re-read the original post. Brian is not referring to ColorFX, which can be applied to multiple clips using the method you describe (that same method is also used, and works, when applying Audio Effects to multiple clips). I believe he is talking about ClipFX and TimeFX, and he is absolutely correct… can’t be done… at least I can’t seem to do it either.

One thing that has changed somewhere along the line is adjusting the clip speed in TimeFX. In earlier versions of Media 100 when I selected a clip in a timeline, changed the speed and applied, it would change the clip in the timeline – very convenient. Now it creates the clip in whatever bin is active and I have to manually replace the clip in the timeline. The Strobe effect still sort of works this way (changes in the timeline, but only when you “Apply” it – not when you “Create” it), but you can’t apply that effect to multiple clips either. Actually, the Strobe effect doesn’t seem to “Create” anything – you have to “Apply” it.

For me, I much prefer the old way, and if the engineers at BorisFX can make it work that way again I’d be even happier with my Media 100 Suite.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

Here’s a link to a thread regarding this: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/71/861145

Other than that, I got nothin’.

HTH

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[Emma DeGraz] “Is Apple ProRes 422 the best idea? “

It’s certainly not a bad idea. It partly depends on what you intend to deliver as a final product, and partly on what capabilities you have with your system as far as CPU and media drives go. Can you handle uncompressed file sizes and throughput?

HTH

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

[melisa tecimen] “For better quality I choose a high bit rate and HD DVD, after encoding is done when I try to burn the DVD I receive the message that the DVD is too small.”

Hello Melisa,

A couple of things: if you are going to use DVDSP to do your encoding, choose a lower bit rate (CBR max. 7Mbps). You will probably get better results if you encode first using Compressor and then bring that into DVDSP as an asset (you will end up with both video and audio assets). Use the Compressor DVD Best Quality 90 minutes template as a starting point and tweak from there, but the default setting should work just fine.

More importantly, despite DVDSP still including HD DVD as a format, there is no such thing – unless you are catering to a small handful of people who might still have and use HD DVD players. It’s a dead format. Blu-ray is the only HD disc format and Apple is slow to address that. So you will have to author a SD DVD.

HTH.

Gary

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[Gary Milligan]

I have to confess I haven’t actually used this product yet, but perhaps this may help.

https://www.clipwrap.com/overview.php

The latest version of Media 100 Suite supports ingesting of AVCHD files using ClipWrap.

Gary

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