[Peter Difalco]

> thats how I do it and clients have been satisfied.
> (though i gotta admit i’ve seen lots of bad looking ones)

Bad looking clients?

=)

[Peter Difalco]

Regardless of the program you use, here’s a slight tip from experience: if you can use an uncompressed editing solution, DO IT. Because DV compression mangles text and fine graphics. A powerpoint to video project I edited graphics on received complaints from the client because the editor took my beautiful TIFFs and put them into a DV compressed timeline before further compressing it to DVD.

best of luck,

Peter DiFalco
Technical Supervisor
Academy of Art University

[Peter Difalco]

hmm… it sounds like an upgrade might be worth looking into to be able to modify the interface’s options. I’ll give it a try. Our editing students are here to learn to be storytellers, not DVD authors, though; so while they learn plenty of tape duping and digitizing, we don’t as yet have an authoring class nor much experience with it.

Thanks for your input.

[Peter Difalco]

I am familiar with DSP and have authored projects with it, which is why I’m concerned that the depth and breadth of the program are going to present many more ways to create a coaster than a solid DVD to someone who’s never seen the program before and is trying to operate it in a relatively unsupervised environment.

Thanks for the reponses — I’m going to mess around with scripting and DSP and see if I can’t automate a few things to make it easier.

it’s either that or get a PC.

Peter DiFalco
Technical Supervisor
Academy of Art University

[Peter Difalco]

I am using a $300 Canopus ADVC-100 analog/DV converter bridge to accomplish exactly what you want to do. Final Cut Express sees it as a deck and will digitize from it.

One caveat: the first time you stop capturing is the last time, because the next time you try to hit capture FCE detects a time code problem. So you have to close FCE and then re-open it … rinse and repeat.

No, it’s not convenient, but hey, it’s cheaper than replacing editing SVHS decks with DV decks and replacing FCE with FCP, so give it a shot.

Bon Chance,

Peter DiFalco
Technical Supervisor
Academy of Art University