[Mike Schrengohst]

I was a diehard PC guy since 1978. I poo poo the MAC all the time….
Once I started shooting P2 in 2006 and finally bought a Mac laptop
I have bought 2 more MAC’s and hardly ever experience any crashes….
My old PC edit systems were expensive, custom built machines that are
now boat anchors. I cannot tell you how many BSOD’s we suffered on a weekly
basis. Always swapping HD’s and RAM and they just were never 100%.
I went though about 6 DELL POS’s that were eventually kicked to the curb.
I have been more productive with the MAC’s and have no compelling reasons
to ever look at a PC again.

[Mike Schrengohst]

Hello Scott,

A client of mine had a DVD replication job done and they used Handbrake to pull the VIDEO_TS
so they could add CSS. It screwed up playback of DVD’s for the MAC. The client picked them
but I had questioned why they were using handbrake. They had to make 100 DVD-R for free that
will play in a MAC.

Try the method I outlined and let me know if that works.

[Mike Schrengohst]

File>Export>Using QuickTime Conversion

Format>QuickTime Movie>Options

Video>Settings>Compression Type>H.264

Framerate>Current

Set your choice of quality.

Size>Custom>960×540

Sound>Settings>AAC

Unclick “Prepare for Internet Streaming”

Now encode the H.264 .mov file

THEN – In Quicktime do a File EXPORT Movie to MPEG-4

OPTIONS Video & Audio Pass through….

This .mp4 file can then be uploaded to YouTube or streamed
from a variety of Flash video players like Longtail or Flowplayer…

If going to YouTube Then I suggest making the file at least 720p 1280×720
and of course a progressive (not interlaced) file is best for internet….

[Mike Schrengohst]

Just save it as a .png

[Mike Schrengohst]

You really need to know how the other person will use the video.

How long is the file? If they are doing some post work on it
then what about a tiff file sequence?

I export uncompressed 10 bit QT files when I need to bring an HD spot
to an AVID post house to lay-off to HDCAM. Their system can read the file
but they still have to convert it to an AVID file.

Soon this post house will have a FCP HD suite and I won’t have to do that!

[Mike Schrengohst]

DO a test.

We shoot 30p all the time and deliver the same things you listed.
I just wonder why 4:3 DVD?
Most of my clients have switched to 16:9 format.
It is real hard to find a 4:3 TV anymore.

[Mike Schrengohst]

Try re-importing the clip or cloning it.

[Mike Schrengohst]

What about HD Delivery for DG Fast Channel?

I have to take a completed file to a post house…
Dump to HDCAM and Fed Ex…

I would love to be able to encode a file a just FTP it…
Thanks

[Mike Schrengohst]

Or forget about Blu-Ray all together. I made several Blu-Ray discs using toast.
You can burn Blu-Ray content onto a regular DVD-R and get about 20 mins of play time.
I could play the disc in a PS3 and a stand-alone Blu-Ray player.
But I found this:

WD TV™ HD Media Player – $129
https://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/categoryID.13830600/parid.13092400/catid.13742300

Getting HD onto this was so easy that I have given up Blu-Ray (For Now).
You can encode an HD H.264 .mov directly from FCP.
Copy to a USB thumb drive – plug it into the WD TV™ HD Media Player and go.
You can also hook up a USB drive and play days worth of videos.
My clients use these units at trade shows and are much more reliable
than playing discs for 3 days in a row. You can also loop videos.
You can also play slide shows from images.

[Mike Schrengohst]

Are they slides or prints?
You can easily scan prints like the last poster suggested….
HD is 1920×1080 pixels – so I would scan to at least 4000×2000 so
you could do some panning & scanning. I would clean them up in Photoshop first.