John Pale
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Well, you can set the HDCAM deck to output with pulldown to give you 60i. Then capture it and output to XDCAM.
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[Mike Schrengohst] “Plus those clips are Pro Res 4444 – so you need FCP 7
“Oddly enough, they play just fine on my G5 FCP 6.x system. If you stack them right in the timeline, you can use composite modes to make use of them.
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[Daniel Garriga] “I look in our machine room and the wiring for blackburst, unity, and patch bays is beyond my knowledge.
“If that’s beyond your knowledge, then yes…bring in someone who does this for a living. This is your business you are talking about. If things don’t work right you lose money….and its harder to fix stuff once you start using it. Make sure its set up right from the beginning….in the end you save money.
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Search FCP Help for Media Manager. The process is fully explained.
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Can you manually set your DVD player to play it 16 x 9? Perhaps your DVD Player cannot properly detect the 16×9 flag on DVD-R and automatically switch.
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[Carsten Orlt] “As the other guys mentioned the result is not as good as going through a high end converter but I have send plenty of DVD’s to American festivals (Documentary) and never had a problem. Try it and see if you’re happy with the result. Anything higher than the ‘Better’ setting takes to long to render and the results are not that dramatically better anyway. “
“Better” actually works better than “Best” in many cases..and is much quicker. The “Best” settings algorithm works well with problematic shots, but can cause strange artifacts on other footage, from what I have experienced.
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If you exported a Quicktime Movie with current settings, that is correct. If you are saying that your Indiana Jones DVD plays in letterbox on your 4:3 tv, that means your DVD player settings are probably correct. It’s likely something is set wrong in iDVD. In the version I have (7.0.4), when you first open iDVD it asks you to select 16:9 or 4:3 for your new project….are you sure you selected 16:9? Older versions of iDVD did not support 16 x 9…so that could be your problem right there, if you are working with an old version.
I am not a big expert on iDVD….rarely use it. More familiar with DVD-SP.
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Explain the steps you took to export and encode for the DVD.
BTW…all DVD players will letterbox 16 x 9 source material. You don’t need to letterbox your material during export and encoding. You just need to do everything correctly, so the DVD player knows its 16 x 9 (and also make sure the DVD Player settings are correct).
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So basically you are hell bent on doing this wrong, even though one of the most knowledgeable people on this forum (Shane) explained the best way to do this….
[Dan Schanler] “Yes, H.264’s a distribution codec, and NOT for editing in FCP. But what’s the best way to handle H.264 clips in an FCP workflow if one must use them for editing?
“What do you mean must? Shane already told you what to do….and as you probably discovered… h.264 does not work well as an editing codec. There is no magic fix for that. Its the nature of the beast.
[Dan Schanler] “I’ve tried using Compressor to convert to ProRes 422, and it seems to look a bit better than QT-DV solution but it probably takes about the same amount of time. Also, for some reason I still need to render some of the clips (even when I drop into a new sequence). “
Somewhere your settings are off. If you had the audio set to “pass-through” then its still compressed as IMA or AAC which will need rendering. The video may also still be some bizarre frame size or rate unless you changed your settings accordingly. You need to work in standard sizes, frame rates and codecs if you want to work in real time without render (must match one of the Easy Setups exactly)
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For what its worth, it sounds like it was captured via Firewire on a drive sharing the same bus as the deck/camera. This can work fine with DV, but with HD, it can be problematic.
Could be other stuff too..but since your assistant indicated there were problems during capture, the media is probably bad.