[Larry Watts]

David,

We have moved from Sony Vegas to Final Cut Studio. One of my editors can put together a transition animation in Vegas quicker than he can with Motion so he did. When he exported the AVI to QT it had some tearing in it so he used the AVI in the FCP project. It seemed to work fine. I’d rather be safe than sorry later so I took the AVI into compressor and created a QT using the DVCPro 50 codec. It plays just fine.

So what do I say to an editor who sees no difference in the outcome?

Are we better off with the QT, or is it a mute point?

Thanks!

Larry

[Larry Watts]

Can anyone tell me if this must be installed after the first buggy firmware, or can it be installed right over the factory firmware? (Is it a patch or a full package?)

(In other words I did not install the first release yet, so how do I proceed?)

Thanks

Larry

[Larry Watts]

Thanks Don!

I’ll try it!

Larry

[Larry Watts]

Thank You again, David.

I’m getting results. With audio.

I may have missed something here, but I have to ask.

Compressor does the job with the presets you mentioned.

Streamclips also does the job.

So is there a reason to use one program in one situation and one program in another?

I suppose I could use streamclips on a PC and batch transcode a folder full of AVI’s.

Is there a quality difference? The transcode time seemed about the same.

Thanks

Larry

[Larry Watts]

I’m getting close. I headed to compressor looking for MPEG Streamclip.

I found recompress with apple pro res 4.2.2.

Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[Larry Watts]

Ok! Now we are cooking!

What I need to do is bring in PC created AVI’s over to the mac to do brief edits, but also to ad closed captioning which I understand FCP handles within the project.

This way I can print to tape with captions and do not need to go through our captioning hardware.
I also an make DVD’s with captioning this way also.

I just did not know how to get the AVI into a mac ready piece of media.

thanks!

Larry

[Larry Watts]

Thanks! The same holds true in the PC world, I just need to translate the knowledge over to FCP and macs.

Here’s the basic specs:

Format: Sorenson Video 3 Decompressor, 640 x 360, Millions+
AAC, Stereo, 44.100 kHz

data rate 1,734.31 kbit/s

FPS:29.97

I chose a standard Sorenson preset and need to make one for 720×480 anamorphic but I don’t think that should affect audio.

So I’m still puzzled why the pro audio part of FCP studio played the audio fine, but the main FCP program didn’t even though the meters were indicating that audio was playing.

Further thoughts?

Thanks

[Larry Watts]

Chelsea,

Did you get any help on this?

I’m facing the exact same situation.

I’ll pass along what I find out.

Larry

[Larry Watts]

Thanks everyone!

LARRY

[Larry Watts]

Luke,

I’m in sort of a similar situation, but I’ve been an editor on another software program and need to learn FCP fast. I went to lynda.com and found a ton of training at very reasonable rates.

lswatts