Miriam Lefkowitz
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I printed a FCP XDCAM sequence to a sony HDV DVCAM deck and then created a SD DVD using our Pioneer PRV-LXI. I also brought the XDCAM movie directly into Compressor – used the DVD settings – and then created a DVD in DVDSP using the internal DVD drive in our Mac Pro. Last but not least, I brought the XDCAM mov file directly into DVDSP, by-passing Compressor, and authorized the DVD again in our internal DVD drive.
The HD movie looks better on Vimeo than any of the DVD’s I created. Unfortunately I have clients who demand DVD’s. The best looking DVD so far came from using Compressor’s DVD settings and then authorizing in DVDSP (change settings to two-pass VBR in DVDSP). The piece looks pretty fair.
I still have to experiment printing from the Mac Pro to the PRV-LX1 directly. I am just pessimistic and annoyed about this whole process. Our exquisite HD XDCAM footage will never look decent on a SD DVD. The footage from our SD Sony Camera looks spectacular on a DVD. Much much better than the dumbed down HD footage.
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I would open all the slides in Preview and print to a PDF. Then view the PDF as a slideshow.
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What about using the HDMI output on the camera?
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FCP also asks if you want to save your project after saving your project and immediately exiting the program. I always figured it was just being extra careful.
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If I understand correctly, open a project on the old computer that uses the boris text box.
Use Media Manager, (or finder) to copy the complete project over to the new computer. Open the project on the new computer, save it as a new version, and then edit away. -
sorry, forgot to say click I (In) when you release the mouse and this will move the frame.
also, the video
https://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvideotutorials/879F6B61-CFF9-4FD1-8D43-FDF89605611A/BE5CA6A0-2D41-4F89-955C-16A05AC2A383.htmlis by Capt. Mench (?).
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Select one audio clip, hold the option key, & move audio track one frame at a time with the left and right arrows. I always pick a part of the audio with a clipped sound to check if they are synced.
If the audio tracks cannot sync because of the different microphone placements, you can do a sub-frame audio edit. zoom into timeline so you can see the whole frame. click on the track so it is in the viewer. Shift-click on the viewer playhead and you can drag the track. Release the mouse and shift key.
This is from tutorial by Shane Ross, off of this thread:
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When I can’t get the transitions to work the way I want I’ll use the pen tool instead and work directly on the video overlay line in the timeline, using keyframes to fade the clips in and out, not the cross-dissolve filter.
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When I have a video only clip from a larger media source and I want the audio quickly, I’ll double-click the video clip so I can see in the Viewer, then click the original media so it appears in the Viewer, mark an approx. in & out, then drag it down to an audio timeline track & move into sync. Kind of hacky but it works.
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You have to have enough time (handles) on the ends of both clips to stretch a dissolve.