[Ian Brown]

You must be doing something wrong somewhere (that you have not mentioned) as what I described will always produce excellent results. It’s the standard method.

[Ian Brown]

In Compressor I would, ideally, suggest making your own preset as Jerry suggests.

[Ian Brown]

The main thing you appear to be doing wrong is you are using QuickTime CONVERSION.

You never use this for DVDs. . . . . it’s mainly for internet videos.

In FCP select File>Export>QuickTime MOVIE.

Leave everything in the default settings and click Save.

Drop the resulting file into Compressor, select an appropriate DVD preset together with the Dolby Digital audio one and click submit.

When encoded, drop these 2 files into DVD Studio Pro and burn.

Result . . . . . perfect DVD.

[Ian Brown]

Thanks Alex I will pass that on.

[Ian Brown]

Thanks Mike, I will pass that info on.

Regarding your comment on the problem of playing 7 streams, I don’t know whether it is the same, but I use Final Cut Pro on a 2.8 GHz iMac and have no problems playing 9 clips in the multiclip mode.

[Ian Brown]

Sorry! I think I may have been mistaken because there were a number of us using different numbers of cameras and computers at our video editing club last night.

I think he had 2 cameras on his computer but didn’t know how to get 4.

Is that explained in the tutorial?

If not, could you give me simple instructions to pass on to him please.

[Ian Brown]

Thanks. I will pass the message and the link on.

[Ian Brown]

I have solved the problem to using the “Filename Includer” script automatically.

I eventually recorded the script as an action.

Then I selected a folder full of photos and applied the Image Processor to it to make copies and I enabled the action to add filenames.

One hundred photos took around 3 minutes to be processed automatically..

[Ian Brown]

I found this script on the Adobe Photoshop (Mac) Forum:-

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/290346

It actually puts the filename inside the photo.

The default setting for the font size was 30, which was much too small so I altered it to 100, which appears about right.

I believe the font and colour etc. can also be customised.

Unless I am using it incorrectly, like Richard’s script, it only seems to do one photo at a time.

I don’t know whether it can be used to batch-process automatically.

[Ian Brown]

MAGIC !!!!!

THANKS !!!!!

Actually I was clueless (and still am) about Actions and it took a good quarter of an hour to find your action and make a droplet.

A few minutes later I was testing it out on some slides and it does exactly what it says on the tin!

However, I did notice a couple of minor problems (what’s that about looking gift-horses in the mouth?).

1. I was expecting to press the go button and all the photos would be converted, but it only did one at a time and I had to keep pressing “Continue”. No great problem, but was I doing something wrong? Is there a way to avoid pressing “Continue” for each picture?

2. Also, the converted slides were opened on the desktop and I had to close each one individually and click “Save” each time. Any way of automating this process as well?

Actually, it’s taken longer to write this than it did to manually press “Continue” etc.!!!