Nathan Beaman
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have you upgraded to quicktime 7 yet. The same thing just happen to me and I have to deliver a disc in a couple of hours. I’m reinstalling quicktime pro 6.5 and I’m thinking that will do it for me. I’ll let you know – if this applies to you.
I have seen it happen before and what it usually relates to is update/version problem. It seems that if parts of the FCP, Compressor, Quicktime, DVD Studio pro equation don’t match it gets finicky. Try reinstalling compressor – and if you’re using it DVD studio pro. 3 people have told me of the same problem and reinstalling studio pro fixed it.
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i’m doing the same thing now – with a pro license – and it has taken forever. The final file looks incredible with the recommended settings – but it is twice the size of the file with a sorenson codec
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For the letterboxing – I sent a 2.35:1 signal out of FCP into a DVX-100, a DVX-100a and an NTSC field monitor. I put camera tape over the “unseen” portions of all three to keep the framing consistent on all. I shot full frame in order to use the full res of the CCDs instead of digitally letteboxing it in camera and using less of the chips. We shot using the tape as framing guides and then masked it in FCP duting post.
As far as the coloring goes – for the most part the real vibrant colors existed in the original footage. I dropped the gamma then color corrected. After this I nested all my sequences and color corrected them once again shot by shot isolating the greens and using stills from “Amelie” as a guide.
I was happy that the colors still looked so vibrant on the web compression, but it still pales compared to the original footage.
There is a whole other issue with the color as far as using the LCD of the DVX-100 as a reference.
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The reason that your transitions are only a couple of frames in length and you keep hearing that “thud” noise is that you hvae reached the end of the media. Make the duration of the footage in your sequence shorter and try again. If you need the titles to be longer you can change the default duration of all titles created in FCP in Preferences. If the transition is a simple disolve, i would recommend just keyframing the opacity.
You can also change the length of any transition by ctrl-click or double clicking it in the timeline.
good luck