Lee Berger
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I do it all the time as I have projects primarily shot in DVCam, with some file footage on Beta. The results are quite acceptable.
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I would be most concerned about tape eating as the inexpensive DV camera puts on some miles.
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This has been discussed on the Boris forum. Boris claims that the problem is on Apple’s side and until Apple fixes it there is nothing that can be done, short of the “trashing workaround.” I have been working with Boris products over the past ten years and I find their tech support to be excellent and honest. Here is a link to the release notes if you don’t already have them.
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You can also use the AUDynamics filter which has the same Master Gain, plus the option of adding some compression.
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And yes, you can import an AVI into FCP. You may get a message that the media is not optimized for FCP, but you can ignore that. I assume that your AVI files are DV-25.
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Toast will import the MPEG2 file, but does not see the audio file as linked to the video. Importing Quicktime directly to Toast negates the need to go to Compressor. It looks as if choosing the DVD option in Toast creates a final DVD with or without menu. You can also choose the quality level as well. The reference Quicktime movie should work, but you might want to export a two-minute segment from your project as a test. I don’t know how long Toast takes to encode and then write the files to DVD.
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I checked out the DVD encoding capability of Toast and you can drag the Quicktime file into Toast, create a menu and encode a DVD. I didn’t go through with the encode.
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You are correct. You must export to a QuickTime movie and then use Compressor to encode an MPEG2 movie and either Aiff or AC3 audio file. I don’t know how Toast would handle these files as I use DVD Studio Pro to create the final DVD. I suggest you use the Export QuickTime movie and not Export Using QuickTime Conversion which re compresses the media. Uncheck the “Make Movie Self-Contained” box to create a “by reference movie” if hard drive space is an issue. This creates a movie that references the individual clips used in your exported sequence.
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Thanks!
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I have the Beta version of CS3. Can you give me a hint about which tools? Thanks.