Jeff Carpenter
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HDV can’t play back through firewire live. You need a capture card to output the video. Once you have one you can either capture with it or with firewire, but viewing out live requires extra hardware.
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Double check that your client has Quicktime 7.
Now, there are lots of options that SHOULD work, but an ultra-sure, ultra easy one is to pick “Export for iPod.” That’s pretty much it, you don’t even get any options.
I can’t recall if you can get that in Final Cut, but if you can’t, just export a full-rez quicktime movie and open that in Quicktime Pro and export it from there.
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1. Yes, it will run on both
2. You are correct. Any Final Cut project can not be opened on a version that is older than the system that created it. You’ll want to upgrade both machines.
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Final Cut Pro 5.1.4
Power Mac G5 2.0 Dual Chip
4.5 Gigs of Ram+ Intel Core Duo iMac with Final Cut connected over gigabit ethernet (no local video storage)
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This is just my opinion, but I only buy monitors in these 2 set-ups:
1) A single large monitor that I can do everything on.
or
2) Two identical monitors, side by side.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can not stand working on dual-monitors that are different sizes and resolutions. Even if one is just for bins or something like that, I much prefer to have everything the same on both halves.
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Generally you just need some kind of SATA card in the PCI slots. The drives work seperately from any video cards like Decklink.
Check with the maker of whatever drive you’re looking at…they tend to sell the cards too, or at least advise you on what to buy for it.
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One note…make sure your current workstation’s FCP is all up to date. Both of your sytems will need to have the exact same version of FC if you want them to be able to open each others projects.
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External drives are fine. A firewire 400 drive will work fine for DV or HDV. A firewire 800 drive will work fine for both of those plus some of the higher formats like DVCPROHD and the lower versions of uncompressed video. For less-compressed SD or HD work you would want external SATA RAIDs.
A USB drive is not suitable for ANY video format, however. USB is not made for sustained data speeds, it works in small bursts which will lead to dropped frames.
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Well, first off you DON’T want to use H.264 as you’ll be double-compressing your video. Once to H.264 and then again to MPEG II once you put it on the DVD.
You want to go directly from Final Cut to MPEG II. The best quality involves picking EXPORT -> COMPRESSOR right from Final Cut. That will tie up Final Cut while dragging a QT movie into Compressor doesn’t, but you’ll get slightly better results.
You should probably be aiming for a VBR MPEG II compression with an average of 6.0 and a max of 7.2. Also, make sure you compress your audio into a Dolby 2 file in Compressor too. You’ll then have an audio file and a video file that you can import into DVD SP.
That should look pretty good…once you get a disc made you can look at the size of it. If it’s less than 4 GB, raise your average from 6.0 to something higher and try again. Don’t put the max much higher than 7.2 or 7.3, however.
Also remember to judge the quality of your DVD on a TV and stand-alone DVD player…not your computer screen.
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How did you get the video out of Final Cut? Did you export a Quicktime movie which you then imported into iDVD?
Can you go back and check that quicktime movie and see if the audio is fine there?