Rafael Amador
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Yes phil. Thanks for the answer. Still so many things to learn.
Cheers.
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Try setting DVCPro NTSC. No DV NTSC. No DVCPro50NTSC.
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Hi mark,
Without listening the audio is difficult (for me) to give you any advice. There are some background noises that are more or less easy to hide. Some others are imposible.I would suggest you to have a look to the Ken Sotne and the LAFCUG web sites where you can find information about how to use the FCs Audio filters.
Cheers,
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One more question Phil, please. In Compressor we got few set-ups for HD DVD. Some based in MPG2 and some based in h.264. but, those HD DVD how are played? By the Mac drivers only? Is just a bit of curiosity because in fact I work and live years away from the HD world, but I like to keep updated.
Cheers,
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Hi Jeff,
About your h.264:
Don’t worry too much if you see in the Activity Monitor: Compressor not responding, in red letters. This appear if the application hangs for a moment, but do not disappear when the application return to work properly.
It seems that Compressor fails almost in the end, when is time to go for the audio or so. What spre-set are you using in Compressor to make your h.264? What audio? h.264 support multi-pass encoding and I don’t know if this can be causing you the troubles. How are your HDs? You got enough memory available?About maintaining your system:
Jeff, whenever your computer make something that you do not like (application hangs, or windows make funny things or so), do a Safe Boost> Start your computer while pressing the SHIFT key. Them restart in normal mode.
Maintenance (free from the web) is a small application that runs few routines. If you do not switch-off your computer, the system run those routines by it self at night, once a week or so, so you don’t need to run it.
If you are working with Mac, you need Disk-warrior or Tech-tools to keep your system optimized. The OX is a Unix system made out of thousands (millions!!) of small files that the system need to have well organized to work properly. Every HD has a “directory” to keep track of all these files. With the normal operation of the Mac this list get more and more disorganized, and although the computer works fine, it take more time that the necessary to do his job. Disk-warrior and Tech-tools rebuild those directories and repair few other mistakes that they can find in the files. I run one of those application once every week or two weeks. The people when have problems with FC or Compressor go to trash preferences and re-install very fast but the most of the times are system related problem, not application related problems. I think I didn’t re-install FC in almost two years. You will never regret the 100 U$ you have to pay for any of those applications. They safe my live every few weeks.
Another question about the HDs. If you work with few hard Drives, keep “journaled” only the HD where you got the system installed. The rest let them un-journaled and check the “Ignore ownership on this volume” in the Info window. The journaling is like having an extra directory that helps to keep track of all the files, this is good for the main HD, because got the system inside, but not necessary for the HDs where you got your captures etc.
Anyway Jeff you should have a look to the Ken Stone web site. Hi got all the information on how to keep your Sytem-FC working smooth.
What Is frustrating is to don’t be able to have a look to your computer and your set-ups, but let see if we can work it out.
Cheers,
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Chris,
Sorry for my stupid suggestion. If you decrease the resolution of your screen you you decrease the size of the file as well.
To decrease the resolution of the screen is good for me because I’m loosing a lot of vision and I need bigger windowns. But not good for printing:-)
Cheers.
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I think the Appel Intermediate codec is not supported by QT for Windows. But you can try with 8b Unc. The Appel codec it doesn’t work in PC but you can use the Blackmagic codecs that work in both platforms and are free.
Rafael -
If you go to show your film in a movie theater, set your level in FC at -20dbs.
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I will give a try to Squeeze. I was thinking to get me BitVicer because some times I don’t like what Compressor does. I tried few times Cleaner, that used to be the standard for MPG2, and I’ve never been happy. long rendering and plainty of artifacts.
Cheers,
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Although the DVD recorders do not need any pre-roll because when in stand-by are spinning and ready to record on the fly.
Rafael