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http://www.apple-history.com – your iMac has a PCI Express video card.
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Thx, but that was the point – i needed to make it 4:3. Somebody asked me for that kind of MPEG file, not for DVD.
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Never mind. I did 1:66 and compared it to FCP 4:3 sequence with my footage and it looks the same.
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Letterboxing is not going to help cause it’ll still be 4:3. If you can deal a quality loss you can start a new anamorphic sequence and scale-up your footage to fit it, or just make 16:9 with 4:3 image on center and letterboxing on sides.
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I think te best way to do it is to export FCP project into Compressor and encode to h.264 QT 7 file with the crop function enabled. You can do it just by reducing the red frame in the preview window or by entering croping values in one of the compression settings tabs. Then you have to enter the propper resizing values for 2.35 ratio (The most popular size is 640×272 pixels, but if you want HD resolution, you have to search google or just download some HD trailer and check ;-).).
H.264 takes some time but you will be pleased with the quallity.
Remember to crop your movie very carefully. Don’t leave black lines from letterboxing cause they’ll spoil the quality on the edges of your video and they take a lot of bit rate.
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You have to remember that MacBooks graphic card uses shared memory, so it’s 64mb less for your system. I kept getting the same message on my PowerBook and it doesn’t mean you need another 512 just to run FCP, but you need at least that in your system.
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The ac3 sound is always much quieter than PCM, it’s nothing wrong with it. The quieter channel problem you have may be caused by wrong timeline settings. Go in the menu to timeline, settings and then audio outputs and add all channels you want to use in your downmix. Hope it’s helpful and not to lame reply ;-).
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There should be no problem. I’m using only built-in firewire ports – 400 for camera/deck connection and 800 for LaCie desktop drive. Works great on G4 PB on Panther. It’s even fast enough for multiclip editing with two DV streams.
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the audio rate was good, it never happens when i’m using internal drive or FW800 as scratch disk, only on USB 2.0 (i know it sounds strange and it’s an unprofessional diagnosis, but it just happens ;-))
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hello, i had a different problem with USB 2.0 disk. when compressing audio to AC3 using Compressor 2 i was always getting anoying noise in the whole track. it doesn’t happeen on FW800. i never had any problems with dropped frames. i do edit DV PAL on powerbook g4 1,33 with 768mb ram.