[Matthew Campagna]

Bouke –

Please be professional and only help answer the questions.
Personal attacks are not appreciated and will not be tolerated.
I don’t see your photo up there, so don’t comment on the quality others!

Thank you for listening.

[Matthew Campagna]

I am guessing that your Quicktime file is still in the HDV format and you did not make a video DVD. If you made an HD DVD or a DVD ROM, you will not get it to work on regular DVD players and the file may not work on PCs.

To get your video on a DVD video, you need to convert it to MPEG. Use DVD Studio Pro or Compressor to convert the files and then use DVD Pro to create the DVD. Do you need more information then that?

[Matthew Campagna]

Check the footage you have encoded for editing. Right click on a clip, scroll down to Item Properties and choose Format. Your video may be in 29.97 fps regardless of how originally recorded it. If you changed it to 24p after you encoded it, then I am not sure what to tell you at this point.

Try looking here for answers:
https://www.hv20.com/

[Matthew Campagna]

Shane is Correct.

[Matthew Campagna]

Hard to answer that question without knowing your end format and requirements.

[Matthew Campagna]

Be careful when using ProRes 422. An hour of HDV takes up about 13GB of space where ProRes 422 takes about 65GB of space. Also, HDV’s data rate is 3.75MB/sec versus ProRes 422 at 27.5MB/sec. If you system can handle those two things, then ProRes 422 is superior in all other ways.

[Matthew Campagna]

I concur with Rafael and Michael,

It is in your best interest to stay in SD. If you do HDV, you will have to convert your SD video to HDV and that will not look as good.

If your timeline is set for SD then the first time you add HDV footage to it, the computer will give you a choice. It will ask if you want to keep the original setting of the timeline or change the setting to the new clip. If you answer to keep the timeline in SD, then all of your HDV footage will be downsized to fit your SD settings. Then you will need to output in SD which should be compatible with your Canon.

If you didn’t want to mix, some HDV cameras allow you to down convert during capture. That way all of your footage will be in SD.

Good luck.

[Matthew Campagna]

I agree with John,

If you are working on something really important, and your budget can afford it, then you will need the help of an audio engineer. Even with all of the fancy audio adjustments that exist and a professional working the controls, you will only improve your audio by a small percentage. As a recording engineer that worked as a house engineer for 10 years, let me tell you that fixing poorly recorded sound is a nightmare. If you go in with the goal of just cleaning up the audio a bit, then you might be happy. If you expect to get a nice, clean, warm sound, then you will be disappointed. Get a quote from a studio before you do anything and see if it is even affordable. If not, you’re gonna have to do your best with SP. Sorry for the bad news. Good luck.

[Matthew Campagna]

If you try emailing any file over 5Mb you will run a high chance of failure in most cases. FTP for big files is usually the way to go.

If your client has an FTP site, then you might be able to post your work there. If not, you will have to get an online FTP site. There are a few free ones out there, but read the fine print and check with you client first to make sure you want to risk using a site that is not yours or theirs. If you need to purchase an FTP site, you can always try GoDaddy.com. They are inexpensive.

If you already have a website, then you might be in luck. A lot of companies that host websites actually include the FTP part in the site. They even include an FTP client (software used to post on the FTP site) in the deal. The software is usually pretty easy to use.

[Matthew Campagna]

Do the 2 effects overlap at any point?

If they do not overlap, then you might be able to keep your original desaturated and duplicate the effect with the other object you want to be color and then stack the videos on top of each other in FCP. The all you have to do is use a mask to include the B&W with 2 objects in color. This way you can continue to use FCP and avoid the learning curve of Color. It will also allow you to keep all your assets in one place.

If that doesn’t work, let me know.