Jason Johnson
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Hey Ryan, I just finished burning the DVD and testing it out on my dvd player. Great success! Thank you so much for your time and answering my questions. All the info you gave me lead to new discoveries and I know my way around the mac and its apps just that much better. Everything came great. Now I just need to get the organization of files and assets going better. Once I burn the dvd, what files/folders can I delete? I’m pretty meticulous about having unnecessary files lying around my HDD. Like what is this PAR folder it created? Can I delete that?
Anyway, I cant express enough how much of a help you’ve been. Thanks again Ryan!
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Wow thanks so much Ryan. Your help is greatly, greatly appreciated. After I read my own post I halfway didnt expect anyone to reply because of all the questions I asked but you totally came through and saved me!
I was getting a little restless last night (before your reply) so I exported the whole thing to a QT movie because I read elsewhere its not good to directly export using compressor within FCP? So anyway I exported to a .mov using applepro res and the NTSC preset I read from another thread. I’m taking that mov file (26 gigs for 1 hour 22 minutes of footage) and throwing that into compressor with the settings/advice you gave. Is this ok to do it this way? FCP->QT mov -> compressor? Or should I go strait from FCP to Compressor like you sugguested?
I’m still getting used to my way around Mac apps, for example when I hit submit in compressor I expected something to happen, like a little window with a progress bar but nothing happened hahah..Then I read what you said about the batch monitor..I don’t get why this is but I probably would have hit submit multiple times until I saw something happen..hahaha. Is this so you can still use compressor for other jobs while something is uh, whats the correct term “compressing” ? in the batch monitor?
Anyway, compressor is just about done..Took about 25 minutes. Not to bad. Now Im about to go in DVDSP for the first time, wish me luck!