[Richard Van harderwijk]

What are your settings exactly? HD (720)? Or SD anamorphic 1024×576?

[Richard Van harderwijk]

A few months back I called Apple (Netherlands) for their official point of view/installation guide for FCS3 on Lion (my new MacBook Pro):

– FCS3 on Lion is possible, all applications will work
– Install the suite in the normal way
– Don’t start any app yet!
– Run software update several times, untill it doesn’t update anymore
– Then run the apps

Works well. They stressed it is crucial not to start an app before all updates are performed

[Richard Van harderwijk]

If you do stop motion, you can choose the background I assume.
Green, blue, even red if there are no human flesh tones in your clay.

Then you don’t have to rotoscope, but use a chroma key. Be sure to use a cam/codec with good color space.

https://generalspecialist.com/2006/10/greenscreen-and-bluescreen-checklist.asp

[Richard Van harderwijk]

The good news is that Automatic Duck is for free now

https://www.automaticduck.com/thankyou/

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Michelle

Check this link. It mostly describes how to burn a Blu-Ray like with your internal superdrive, but also how to use FCP7 with an external Blu-Ray burner attached. Lot’s of screen grabs.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/burn_br_mac_superdrive_stone.html

[Richard Van harderwijk]

I’ve had audio drift out of sync, but that was due to all different frame rates (known problem). And that is not your problem. My solution was to put the faulty sequence in an other (nesting) with a different codec and to render. That solved things

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Perhaps a silly question, but do you take the right format of the template? There are NTSC and PAL versions

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Open with quicktime 7 (pro version)
Command J gives extra info, if you go to the video settings, you can find the size/aspect-ratio and a checkbox preserve aspect ratio.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi,

The error VIDEO BITRATE TOO HIGH means exactly that. But there is an bug in DVDSP that I encountered, giving the exact same message.

It can also mean there is an error in you’re audio file. If you didn’t use compressor to make an AC3, it can happen that there is a short intense peak (not audible) in the level and DVDSP ‘translates’ that also in video bitrate to high (don’t ask why)… So compress audio to AC3 using compressor. That fixes the peak and message.

As stated before, HD DVD is dead, it went out with disco. If a festival wants a DVD, it will be a SD-DVD (but ask!).

BTW, there is a trick to burn a blu-ray kind of disk on a DVD. It will only be playable on Blu-Ray devices, but of course the duration cannot be as long as a standard blu-ray and the bit-rate will be lower (but higher dan SD). Check this link

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/burn_br_mac_superdrive_stone.html

[Richard Van harderwijk]

I am waiting on my new MacBook Pro with Lion (and Thunderbolt promise raid, and Matrox thunderbolt converter, happy happy 🙂

I called Apple (Netherlands) for their official point of view/installation guide:
– FCS3 on Lion is possible, all applications will work
– Install the suite in the normal way
– Don’t start any app yet!
– Run software update several times, untill it doesn’t update anymore
– Then run the apps

Haven’t tested it yet, still waiting on shipment…