[John Pale]

Unfortunately, echo/reverb is pretty much impossible to eliminate.

This isn’t an Avid limitation, its physics. Someone adept in Pro Tools might be able to make it a little better, but its never going to match.

[John Pale]

Are you playing them on a computer that has Final Cut Pro Studio installed?

Most of the HD codecs are only installed with a FCP install (HDV, DVCPRO-HD, Uncompressed, etc).
The Apple Pro Res is only installed by FCP 6 or higher.

If you want to play these files in Quicktime Player on a non-FCP computer, you should convert the file (on an FCP system) to H.264.

[John Pale]

Ask your audio mixer what he prefers.

Current Pro Tools software works well with OMF 2 or better yet, AAF.

Older systems may want OMF 1

[John Pale]

Time to call apple support. If you registered they will help you.

[John Pale]

Delete this file…

Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Studio System ID

[John Pale]

Export with Quicktime Conversion does not carry timecode.

Export Quicktime (same as sequence setting) does.

Drop your Pro Res Quicktime into an empty ProRes sequence that has the same start timecode and export Quicktime.

[John Pale]

Capture the dv footage. Load the DVD footage into the viewer. Find an easily recognized video frame or sound. Mark an in point or place a marker on it so you can find it again. Load the dv clip in the viewer and find the same exact frame. Note the timecode of this frame.
Load the DVD footage back into the viewer and go to the frame you marked. Use the Modify/timecode command to change the timecode to the timecode you noted from the dv version. Also give it the same reel name. Now the timecdes of both clips match. Take the DVD clip offline using the Make Offline command. You can elect to leave it on disk, in case something goes wrong. Connect your offline clip to the dv clip using the Reconnect media command. Your edits should now be correct and linked to the dv media instead of the DVD media. This sounds more complicated than it is…it’s actually quite easy and I have done it successfully many times

[John Pale]

I’d go with digitizing and upconverting via the iO HD. Then use Nattress or Compressor to do the conversion to PAL. Compressor is a bit cleaner than Nattress if you turn on the Frame Controls and set the resize and retiming controls to better/best…but takes much longer.

You can do it using ripping method but it will be complicated, extremely time consuming, and yield results that won’t look very different.

If you have a shot or two where the quality doesn’t seem good enough, you might try it the ripping way…but otherwise I would use hardware when you can.

[John Pale]

Be careful with MobileMe.

It’s not intended for commercial use…they have a monthly bandwith allotment. If you go over, they freeze your account. Doesn’t sound like with what you are doing, you will hit the limit, but here’s the lowdown…

Understanding MobileMe data transfer limits

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“Data transfer,” or bandwidth used, is the amount of information moved to and from a site as visitors access it. MobileMe monitors the data transfer of each MobileMe account in order to ensure a high level of performance for all MobileMe subscribers. When you purchase a MobileMe subscription, you receive 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage and up to 200 GB of data transfer capacity per month.

For example, if you publish a 50 megabyte (MB) movie to a MobileMe website, and 10 of your friends view it, 500 MB of your allotted data transfer quota is used.

You can use up to half of your monthly quota during the first 15 days of a month. (If you’re close to exceeding your monthly data transfer limit, you receive a message from the MobileMe team.) If you exceed your data transfer limit, any shared files, websites, blogs, or podcasts associated with your MobileMe account are turned off and service is not reinstated until the 1st or 16th of the month (Pacific Standard Time), whichever comes first.

Member data transfer limits are determined by the amount of MobileMe storage you have. To avoid exceeding your data transfer limit, you can:

Increase your monthly data transfer limit (up to 400 GB or 600 GB per month) by adding more storage space to your account

Compress or remove videos and podcasts from your websites. You can also encourage visitors to download your videos or podcasts rather than visit the site repeatedly to view the same content.

Password-protect your Gallery or other websites to limit page views to those who know the password

You can monitor your data transfer history by clicking the Details link in the Account Details section (in the Summary pane).

[John Pale]

FCP 6 does this….

But if your Quicktime files are made correctly, all you have to do is select the DV NTSC EASY SETUP and you should be fine.

Use the EASY SETUPS. Do not try to set up all the options manually.