[Matt Jones]

Ok, I’m trying an H.264 Streaming with 640×480. I’m assuming it will horrible when authored in Toast. The weight in my timeline is super huge, because a good portion was converted in MPEG Streamclip. That section alone was like 12 gigs.

[Matt Jones]

Actually I need it under 4 gigs. Apple Intermediate Codec?

[Matt Jones]

Brilliant! I’ll give it a shot with something small in FCP as a test.

Thanks!

[Matt Jones]

Thanks. Its fairly small, so that helps. I’ll give it a shot.

[Matt Jones]

This is good news. We don’t typically use many heavy effects, so that shouldn’t be an issue. The 480p thing is still in talks, but we will be shooting in 720p also. The testing phase will tell us what we haven’t already learned.

Thanks!

[Matt Jones]

sounds great. I’ll give it a shot. Any other ideas would be great too.

Thanks!

[Matt Jones]

Thanks for the help and the graphic!

[Matt Jones]

Ok, one more thing. ProRes will be perfect for the show. However, the hosts are wanting to hand out DVDs to bigwigs. Without size as a factor (we are only burning one segment= ProRes 1.6 GB) would it be better to just burn that file to DVD or export uncompressed out of FCP and use Compressor? If using Compressor, which codecs would be prime DVD quality there. (I do realize you can use ProRes there too, however I was just curious)

Thanks Again, you guys rule!

[Matt Jones]

Lol. Yeah, it’s Standard NTSC DV 29.97…

The interlaced broadcast thing didn’t even occur to me.

Thanks!

[Matt Jones]

Happy New Year

I had another question. IRE levels for black are 6.5 according to the guide, however isn’t it 0 in FCP (digital?)

Thanks