[Jcox75]

thanks ed, that looked great. except when i played the dvd, certain parts of the video “stuttered”. any thoughts or suggestions? thanks again.

[Jcox75]

yeah, i’ve been using the export to compressor. yesterday, i did experiment with exporting a small clip as a quicktime, and ran that thru compressor. and like your experience, i found that the colors looked better. my only problem with that is these dvds will be around 100 minutes long, and exporting my entire sequence as a quicktime would basically double my time. i guess i could split up the sequence into sections, render QTs of those and then compress them. but again, it seems like that would add to the time, and im already running behind.

basically, here’s what i’m doing. i’m putting together dvds for clients to play in their stores. these dvds will have music videos and ads. the music videos look fine, however, some of the ads have footage that was shot on betacam and those are the ones that compressor seems to make darker and too red/orange. they look great in FCP though. i’ve tried color correcting them a little, but it’s hard (i’m really new to all of this) to figure out how much to correct and then go back and forth from FCP and compressor.

thanks
j

[Jcox75]

jeff,
i can’t thank you enough for your help and advice. as i said before, i’m new to a lot of this, and i really do appreciate your help.

thanks again,
j

[Jcox75]

yeah, i guess that might be helpful huh? sorry. here’s what i have.

dual 2.5 G5
4 GB RAM
os 10.3.8

FCP 4.5
compressor 1.2.1
DVDSP 3.0.2

thanks,
j

[Jcox75]

thanks jeff,
that’s what i was thinking about doing. it just seems simpler that way. about half of the 2 hours will be music videos (i’m going to use around 20 or so), and the other half will be the ads and promotions. most of the ads are fairly simple after effects animations and a few will be some live action spots. one of the main reasons i ask is that i’ve seen some posts where people have had problems with compressor crashing and what not, and i’m just looking to avoid as many problems as i can. also, based on your experience, how long do you think it will take to compress a 2 hour (approx) sequence like this?

thanks again,
j

[Jcox75]

XMult works great! just what i needed, thanks for the heads up.

[Jcox75]

thanks for the suggestions. i’ll give them both a shot. just one of those days (monday, go figure) where my brain is fried and i’m under a tight deadline. thanks again.