[Mark Palmer]

There’s no timecode on the tape, that’s the problem, so I can’t just recapture, as I don’t have it set to know exactly where it all begins.

[Mark Palmer]

Why? I already did a substantial bit of editing on the 5GB file on the HD, and I want to save the original footage to DVD as backup, but I can’t fit it on a 4.3GB disk. If I recaptured the original footage from scratch, I’d have to go in and realign it with the editing. Not impossible, certainly, but a bit more of a hassle than I’d like to deal with.

[Mark Palmer]

Okay, thanks. I never understood the diff between checking the box marked self-contained and not, but you clarified it for me. Thanks again.

[Mark Palmer]

I think I may not have articulated this well.

I already have the footage in 1 big 5+GB file on my HD, and I need to split it up into 2 parts to save it into the space of a 4.3GB DVD. I want to keep the footage as is and not re-capture in smaller chunks, so that I can reconstruct the original later on if need be.

When I split the file in FCP, using the razorblade, then creating 2 sequences, each sequence comes out way smaller than I would have expected. That’s the problem I’m trying to figure out. Why would a straight, uncompressed FCP movie file from NTSC miniDV footage come out about 4x smaller, when I am simply trying to make an exact copy of it, split in two, without any added compression whatsoever? Am I missing something?

[Mark Palmer]

Yeah, I would MUCH prefer to work with the EDL, since the info that is set up there is so much simpler and is basically all that I need. But I guess XML is what it will have to be.

(Sorry for the multiple postings!)

[Mark Palmer]

Thanks, I’ll look into it. I was thinking of using Perl to generate the XML code from scratch (or a basic template) anyway, so maybe this will save me time.

[Mark Palmer]

Thanks, I’ll look into it. I was thinking of using Perl to generate the XML code from scratch (or a basic template) anyway, so maybe this will save me time.

[Mark Palmer]

Thanks, I’ll look into it. I was thinking of using Perl to generate the XML code from scratch (or a basic template) anyway, so maybe this will save me time.