[Jeff Greenberg]

“especially while running high end programs in background.”

Which high end programs? How much Ram? What kind of Mac?

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Jane,

Video only supports embedding in the closed captioning track. If you want subtitles, you’ll have to create titles for each subtitle manually.

The only other suggestion would be marquee’s autotitler (to at least build all of your titles for you, if someone else has typed the information.)

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Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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[Jeff Greenberg]

How are you making your DVD?

Only MPEG-2 is part of the spec. Since Avid really isn’t meant to compress (but rather to edit), I’d suggest exporting as quicktime reference and importing that into your xvid converter of choice.

Best,

Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Could you (by any chance) been storying your project on the Unity?

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Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

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[Jeff Greenberg]

There are two ways to do this.

Brute force and ‘elegant’

The brute force way is to just copy the OMFI/Avid MediaFiles folder + the project to the target machine.

The problem here, is that you get EVERYTHING, not just your one project.

The elegant way to do this is to go to the original machine, open the media tool, select all the clips and choose consolidate and to make a copy to a target drive.

Then copy the project over (manually, at the desktop level) and when you get to the new machine, relink.

Best,

Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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[Jeff Greenberg]

If your footage is interlaced – leave it interlaced throughout your post process until compressed.

There’s a quick and dirty way to deinterlace. A motion effect (not timewarp) set at 100% speed + duplicated fields does this.

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Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

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[Jeff Greenberg]

You need the full software for the color correction tools –

The Color Correction mode, derived from symphony, gives you not only HSL wheels (like FCP) but also Curves (and naturalmatch!)

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Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Roman,

Use the resize effect. Increase the size of the video to 130% or so (no larger.) Now set two different positions for the video (at the first and last keyframe.) Optionally, throw the HQ switch for higher quality.

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Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Let’s do the easy one first.

On import:
601 leaves the levels of the imported object alone.
RGB crushes everything so 0 is remapped as 16 (black), and 255 is remapped as 235 (white.)

If you have a photoshop file, (0-255), by using the RGB setting it crushes everything for legal luma.

If you have a still (or QT) that was created in video space, the 601 setting leaves everything alone.

Now, if that makes sense, the export options do the reverse

Best,

Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Ken stone has a decent link about stories inside of DVDSP here.

Best,

Jeff G
Principal Instructor
Future Media Concepts

FMCTraining.com
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