[Jeff Greenberg]

Estimated file size:

(BitRate (in Megabits/second) * # of seconds) divided by 8 = Megabytes.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

Import? Sure.
Edit? not so much.

It depends on which codec – and Perian is a great swiss army knife to view different AVI files. If QuickTime can see it, FCP can see it.

But you’ll find that when you drop AVI’s in your timeline, that you’ll have to render everything just to even play your files. It’s probably best to transcode using compressor to something that’s video editing compliant.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

It sounds unusual.
Try: Trashing the caches, the user prefs.
Try a new OSX user
Try a 48k aiff file

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

It does seem slow – but your export might be different than your playback preferences.
3D, reflections are usually killers.

If you bring it into FCP directly, it should be handled as if it were uncompressed, until you render; in which case, it gets rendered in the timeline’s codec.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

Ornament is a series of shape/strokes with the write-on behavior.

You can’t really manipulate the group itself, but by going in and adjusting the write on behavior(s) – there’s one on each stroke – you can change the in/out points of each one – timing it however you like.

Attached is a screenshot of the timeline open, with the write on behaviors.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

Nope – no other ways to import footage.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

Here’s some good ‘average’ starting point.

SD DVD: 4.5 mb/s.
HD-DVD (MPEG-2) 18 mb/s
HD-DVD (h.264) 15 mb/s

Blu-Ray (h.264) 15mb/s

You really need to specify what you’re creating:
An HD-DVD (defunct)
A Blu-Ray DVD

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

MainConcepts makes a mac package called Reference for OSX.

It looks like it might do what you want – an XDCam QuickTime with 8 audio tracks.

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

I’m curious – is it a frame rate match? For example are you transcoding 24p material in a 30i timeline?

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Jeff G

[Jeff Greenberg]

When you transcode you could go to any video format you like – I’d suggest at least DV50 over DV25 411 – and uncompressed (1:1) would create huge files, but wouldn’t add any additional compression.

Since you’re starting with highly compressed SD files (h264) you might not want to add any further compression.

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Jeff G