[John Fishback]

It sounds like the DVD is playing the center 4×3 portion of your 16×9 image (therby cutting off the sides) on your roommate’s TV. Was this the way you wanted it to play or did you want to see a letter-boxed 16×9 image on a 4×3 TV? If so, I’m sure there’s a control in the program that made your DVD that would allow this. In DVD Studio Pro you’d choose Letterbox instead of Pan-Scan.

John

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[John Fishback]

Here’s a great tutorial covering much of what you’re asking by Walter Biscardi. https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php
When exporting from Streamclip, be sure to use a QT codec FCP likes such as DV or DVCPro 50 (might be overkill for Flip video). Do some tests on a short clip and see what works best for you. It’s possible Compressor would work for the conversion, but I don’t know for sure. I’ve never tried that.

John

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[John Fishback]

How are you viewing the footage? What kind of monitor?

John

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[John Fishback]

What format was the master that made the F4Vs. That’s what you want to make a DVD. You have to turn those masters into mv2 files (and audio – aiff or ac3). If he made the program in Flash and simply exported F4Vs you might be better off asking him to export a Quicktime movie. Then you can use that in Compressor to encode your mv2s and audio for the DVD (which you’d make in DVDSP). Make sure he makes the QTs with the best codec possible as QTs from Flash are not the best quality. Hopefully, a video master exists. Flash was never designed as a video creation tool.

John

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[John Fishback]

It’s been a while, but I seem to recall you needed to go to FCP 5.1 to work on an Intel machine. Search the Cow and Apple for FCP 5.1 to check that out.

John

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[John Fishback]

I don’t know why you’re experiencing the chroma drop. However, you could try adding some filtration in Compressor’s Filters tab in the Inspector. Increasing the data rate will improve any image, but I don’t know if that’d affect the chroma. Also, I usually use 2-pass VBR as it produces better (IMHO), more compact results. Run some short tests to see what happens.

John

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[John Fishback]

Try a test with Compressor, too. Compressor will be much faster than FCP as it uses all 8 if your cores.

John

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[John Fishback]

It’s not clear to me if you want to play the Flash program on your Mac, or edit with the F4Vs. If the former, do you have Flash Player on your machine? Did you get a swf file to play or just the F4Vs and pgns. If the latter, try Perian (https://perian.org/) to open the F4Vs. It’s a free QT component which I know opens flvs in QT. It may also open F4Vs. I seem to recall that F4Vs are an mpeg-4 file. If you change the extension to .mov maybe it will play in QT or FCP.

John

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[John Fishback]

Mikal, gave you tried to use Compressor to make your edit files? If so, you can batch process the files and perhaps run Compressor in the background as you edit in FCP (I don’t remember if Compressor & FCP 5 can run simultaneously).

John

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[John Fishback]

What size is the jpeg? Is it RGB? I’m assuming you can see it on your Mac ourside of FCP.

John

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