Lukeinvt
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The way I have it set up is I have a 6 pin to 4 pin firewire cord going out of my external drive into my camera and out of my camera’s S-video into my preview monitor. Not the optimal solution but works for me since I only have 1 firewire out of my laptop. Ideally you will have a firewire directly out of your computer to a deck or conversion box and out of that into your preview monitor. Then go to preferences and find video preview, choose firewire from the drop down menu.
The way I have it works just fine, I actually have 2 external FW drives daisy chained so audio begins to lag when I preview longer projects in FCP, but for my average AE project I don’t have that problem.
There may be other more optimal solutions but this works for me.
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Ok, tried that, when I tried to change the owner of the desktop it said an unexpected error occured, error code 60002. Ah well, I hate a cluttered desktop anyway, just a nusance and a very curious problem.
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Just to echo the previous statements, get this if you’re seroius about learning AE, there is so much new stuff that AE 6 offers, you will be very happy.
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Why? As far as I know DVDSP would prefer that you import your video and audio files seperatly. If they share the same file name (example.m2v and example.aiff) DVDSP will know that these 2 files are linked.
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Just got the Compressor update, have not tried any encodes yet.
Yes, I created a new preset based on the HQ 60 min encode, changed the field order and bitrate.
I do not know what you mean “old presets for 1.2” It seems that Compressor 2 has about 3 times as many factory presets. Are some of these left over from an earlier version?
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Man, adding the poster edges and cutout filter is great.
I also have been using this combination and was hoping that these filters would be in AE. I have 5.5 and so far I haven’t found anything.
I did export a short clip as an image sequence and run those 2 filters on the images, automated of course with actions, and I was not happy with the results. The cutout filter was not consistent, so pixls in the background moved around unevenly. It defintly has potential but no way to do it in AE as far as I know
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Wow, is there an edit button?
System specs at work G5, Tiger, FCP5 Studio, Compressor 2.0
System Specs at home G4, Panther, FCP HD 4.5, Compressor 1.2.1 -
Not sure if that question was for me, but if you’ve been having no problems maybe there’s something wrong on our computer.
Keep in mind I only use this particular computer once in a while so I do not know everything about it.
Basically we were doing a DVD for the chemestry department. Our editor was using FCP4 to edit on a 10.3.x system. He got the projects to what we thought was a done state and rendered out Final Cut Pro Movie Files. I then took those files into Compressor 1.2. I created a custom preset based on the MPEG@ encode preset. The only thing I changed from the preset was the field order, bottom first as this is DV footage, and I cahnged it to 2 pass VBR 6 average 7 max. These encodes looked very good, no field order issues, no ugly artifacts, and I sent the beta off to be spot checked by the department. Our editor, anxious to install the recently purhased upgrades, fitted the system with Tiger and FCP 5 Studio. Several weeks later we got the beta disc back with a reedit list. So in the interest of time I tackled the revisions myself, re-exported the Final Cut Pro Movie files, dropped them into compressor, ran a batch based on the 60 minute high quality MPEG-2 preset. Again, all I changed was the field order and the data rate. I got some very ugly artifacts, and issues that looked a little like field order issues, so I ran a tests, field order top, bottom and none, at various data rates and various GOP structures, all giving me the same unacceptable results. I did some other tests, if you’d like to hear what other lengths I went to to fix this problem I’ll chronicle them, but…
So, I took my work home where I have 10.3.9 and Compressor 1.2. Figuring it couldn’t hurt, I ran an encode again based on the MPEG2 Preset, changed the field order and changed the data rate to 6avg 7max. Vola, the encodes look great. All three chapters that had to be reedited looked like crap encoded on a G% with Tiger and FCP5 Studio, including Compressor 1.2.1. On my G$ Powerbook, OSX 10.3.9 Compressor 1.2.1 I got encodes that looked very good and had none of the seeemingly random issues that had me pulling my hair out.
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I have no answers to your question but actually a few of my own.
Are you running Tiger?
The reason I ask is because we have Tiger at work. Basically, we upgraded to Tiger mid project. We assumed the project was done, but after the upgrade our Test DVD came back with a few minor corrections. We fixed the sequences in FCP, re exported FCP movie files and encoded them in Compressor, the same exact work flow as we had used before the upgrade. Our new MPEG-2’s were a disaster, frames jumping all over the place during pans and zooms, very strange, and no amount of tweaking worked. I even tried Cleaner, but I have never been happy with their MPEG-2 encodes. Cleaner did not help at all.You know what did work? I brought the FCP movie files home and encoded them on my system running 10.3.9
There is one other variable, we are running FCP 5 Studio at work, I am running FCP HD 4.5 here. So Based on these last few days, either there is a problem with FCP % studio or Tiger
Why are you using Cleaner instead of Compressor or Squeeze?
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Short answer, yes, after you have found suitable encoding settings and your movie looks the way you want it, drop you mpeg-2 assents into DVDSP, add chapter markers and begin authoring the DVD. At the very minimum you want to set the “first play” option. If you want the movie to start immediatly and you have no menu’s, set the 1st play to track 1 chapter 1. If you have created a “main menu” where the viewer can jump to individual chapters, you can set that up as your 1st play option, or allow users to access it when they press the “menu” button on their remote control..
Long Answer, yes, you will need to build and format. Building creates the DVD files on your hard drive, formatting actually puts the files onto a DVD.
One way this is useful is if you want to test the DVD before you burn it.
Once you are happy with the DVD architecture, ie the way the viewer will interact with the menu’s, chosing the scene, extras, subtitles, etc, do a test build. This will create 2 folders where you specify them, an Audio_TS and Video_TS folder. Open up Apple DVD player and chose file>open Video_TS folder and find your recently built Video_TS folder. Your DVD should open as if you just popped a DVD into your drive (you may have to hit play before anything will happen, not sure why, or of this happends on all versions of DVD player)
You can watch you DVD on your computer, test you buttons, make sure your chapters work properly. This will NOT be the time to test the quality of you encodes. By this point you should have already found a appropriate encoding preset. This is simply to make sure that your authoring is how you want it. If you find problems with the authoring, ie a button does not link to the proper chapter, reopen your DVDSP project, fix the problem and rebuild. The new build will use as much information from the previous build, making the time it takes much shorter than the initial build.
Once you are happy with the authoring, build and format a final disc, watch it on a TV just to make sure all is well, and vola.
Additionally, you can format the disc as an .img file. This compacts the entire DVD into 1 file that is easy to store and make copies from.