Neil Patience
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As frustrating as it is, no you cant re-use the files with Compressor.
Its a “one-shot” deal and I believe there is no way around that limitation.best wishes
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No Problem – I believe you are correct and they did vanish for a while but then they came back luckily. Not sure how long they will be around for you never can tell with Apple.
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I wonder if the issue not recognising the files will be cured by editing the camera plist file as you have to do for the T2i/550D
Might be worth a go – instructions here
https://www.patience.tv/blog_files/tag-eos-550d-t2i-log-and-transfer-problem.phptry adding EOS 5D Mark III to the list ?
Total guess – but might work.
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I dont think there is any advantage to burning BluRay on a PC vs Mac – its just Macs dont come with BluRay drives as standard.
However if you already have a BR burner in your PC then that would save you buying another one. You still need some kind of authoring software though.best wishes
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Upgrades are no longer available since Apple EOL’d FCP.
Probably the only option for an upgrade is to find one on Ebay etcbest wishes
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If you go to User Prefs under the General tab you will see the option for open last project on application launch.
Select or not as required – (just above the autosave vault options)best wishes
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The ProApps updates for FCP7 are indeed still available here
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL949best wishes
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Indeed, as standard, Mac and BluRay are not the best of friends.
I was recently in a similar position in that I needed a BluRay of a short film I edited.
I ended up buying a pretty basic Samsung SE506 portable BluRay burner.
Luckily I already had software options so I tried all I had.
I tried the “one shot” BluRay option in Compressor, Toast 11 Pro and Adobe Encore.
Compressor actually worked OK but obviously no real flexibility with menus and also no way to re-burn a second disc, you have to do it from scratch every time. So OK for a quick one off disc but anything more or if menus needed forget it.
Installing Toast looked promising but had lots of failures with discs not completing the burn process correctly. They would get to within 30-40 secs of finalising then fail. I had all the current updates installed and pretty much gave up trying to trouble shoot it after a couple of hours and wasting 5 or 6 discs.
Encore by far the best of the three in terms of reliability and familiarity. If you know DVDSP then you can pretty much work out Encore.
Menus work – however the most complex thing I tried was a single menu with 4 options to play 4 seperate short films each returning to the menu after playing.
However I did get a couple of failures trying to burn direct to disc and found that making an image first then burning that was more reliable.
I am not a DVD author so I have only tried making fairly simple discs but for that and without looking at dedicated BluRay burning software, Encore would be my suggestion.best wishes
Neil
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You need very fast hard drives to play back 10 bit uncompressed video.
Standard def has a bitrate of about 270 Mbs and HD is way higher – over 1Gbs I think.So that’s why you are struggling to play it back – unless you have a fast fibre or esata raid it’s going to stall.
That’s why ProRes is a good option. HD ProRes is less bandwidth than SD 10 bit Uncompressed.
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Neil
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There are several ways you could do this and Motion is probably the most flexible overall.
If you are not familiar with Motion (which is a great way to do this) you could do it in FCP. It will need a couple of video layers and a little fiddling and some rendering so may be time consuming depending on how much you have to do.
On a video layer above your pictures simply overlay some ‘slug’
Then on the slug layer apply the effect ‘Mask Shape’ from the Matte option in the effects pallete. This by default will create a black square in the middle of your pictures.
Then select ‘invert’ and use the horitontal and vertical scale to get the correct amount of black bar top and bottom.
Then select the ‘motion’ tab and adjust the opacity so that it becomes as transparent as you need.
If you want your bars to be a colour rather than black then you can overlay a matte colour instead of slug. Otherwise do the same.Then just add your captions to the video layer above.
As I said its a little fiddly and also will need rendering but you can just copy and paste it wherever you need it on your timeline and make it as long or as short as you like.
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Neil
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