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Jeff Greenberg
January 19, 2011 at 3:56 am in reply to: TM symbol & credit scroll

With the Apple Generator (Scroll text) you can use the “*” (asterik) as gutter/divder.

Jeff Greenberg*Editor will put a ‘gap’ instead of the *

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 19, 2011 at 3:54 am in reply to: 5DtoRGB missing ProRes Codecs

Does your system ‘see’ the prores components in QuickTime/FCP?

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 18, 2011 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Avid to compositing package and back

I think you missed this from my initial post: what are your avid import settings?

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 17, 2011 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Media on primary or scratch

Just to add a bit to what Anthony said (Hey Tony!) – basically it’s this – it’s dangerous for your OS to have media files – fill your main drive and you’re in trouble. Additionally the extra thrashing between the media, OS and FCP….it’s just best to have media on a different drive than your OS/FCP

Last – please tell me you have all that stuff backed up somewhere else, just in case of a drive failure, right?

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Directory Path filenames

I didn’t test this in FCP- but I think no, it’s not case sensitive. I expect it to work like the finder; and the finder will not let me create two folders (directories) with the same name.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 17, 2011 at 6:46 pm in reply to: How does one make an MPEG-1 these days?

I got a couple of tools for you…

One – DamnVid which has presets for all sorts of distribution (iphone, pad, etc) from any source (including a bunch of online sources.) But opening the presets let me create an MPEG-1 with all sorts of non-normal (Above VCD or SVCD) encoding. It’s what you’ll probably use because it’s open source.

Two – defunct, but Visual Hub should do this too…

Three – FFMPEG (Free, open source, command line) or a GUI for it – FFMPEGX (shareware, loads of conversion goodness) will do this for you too.

Yah, Compressor, QuickTime, AME, won’t. Squeeze and Episode will.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 17, 2011 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Web Cast to DVD

Three silly questions:
1) What codec is he exporting out of camtasia?
2) Why aren’t your using Adobe Media Encoder to build your MPEG-2
3) Any reason you’re making an MPEG-4 out of AE rather than an MPEG-2?

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 17, 2011 at 6:12 pm in reply to: dvd quality from Producer

I’ll assume you’re working with footage that looks decent in Media 100? I have no idea about producer – but if you’re exporting as self contained – it should be passing the timeline out of your editor to Toast.

In toast, I should assume that you’ve tried the Best slider? If so…
Press the More Button.
Click on the encoding tab.
Take your average bit rate to 5 or 6 mbs. If you’re doing less than 60 minutes? Take it up to 7Mbs.

This should produce a better looking DVD – Save it as a disc image and preview it on Apple’s DVD player (to save yourself wasting a disc if you’re not happy.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 16, 2011 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Black dots in my motion graphics when I put it on top of Canon Footage

You’ve been able to do that since Motion 2. Try it and see if it helps.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
Jeff Greenberg
January 16, 2011 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Why does my dvd freeze?

If you’re compressing the footage to play back on a conventional DVD to play on a DVD player – it has to be MPEG-2 for playback to occur. That’s part of the DVD spec.

If you’re asking what format for your video to be in for ARCHIVAL use, as long as the frames are all there, the format is irrelevant (aside from compression.) Many codecs weren’t meant for playback in real time, but merely to store the frames.

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com

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