Rich Rubasch
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Not sure if you can do this on the new Quad, but I got it back on both of my old dual 2.7 G5s by simply installing DVD Studio Pro 3. I made sure to rename DVD Studio Pro app so it didn’t install over it, but it was that easy. Now I have the Universal ap, Compressor 2.1 and all the new goodies, PLUS the MPEG2 exporter.
Which I also prefer. Constant bitrate, 6.5 mbps. Always worked for me.
Try it.
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Well, we do have Ted Nugent…didn’t he run for something? Doesn’t he resemble Zelin a little?
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I believe the free MPEG Streamclip is a good way to go for this…um…the best way to go?
squared5.com
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Absolutely excellent thread…
The scaling issue is one reason why we have become a DVCPro 50 house. We love it for our projects. Great keying etc. A lot of our stuff is shot on DVCAM. Not DVCPro50. The rest is Betacam. Everything comes in via the Aurora Pipe card SDI or Component to DVCPro50. Keying is great, color correction is great, file sizes are great…and when we are done and need to go out to DVD there are no scaling issues.
DVCPro50 might be a solution for this guy because at least it gets him to 4:2:2 color space.
Again, lots of great stuff in here. Still I am sticking to our DVCPro50 workflow as a perfect solution to our workflow.
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I wholeheartedly agree with DoubleTony about the “studio” conundrum of FCP. I to sometimes want to render a big timeline and I cannot even run Compressor or DVD Studio Pro to set up the menu etc while it renders. I can workaround it, but I have the right to use the apps that come with the Studio package. Why can’t I use them at the same time on two different machines? Apple certainly has heard of multi-tasking….that is what I do most of the day.
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Kevin sort of makes my point. What’s on my shelf? Demo reels from some great cutters out there, some who were my personal mentors and others who just have excellent demo reels. King Cut had a memorable editing demo reel a few years ago. I would rather go back and watch some cuts, get the feel of how sequences develop, listen to music selection etc than read theory.
I would also rather go to a museum and look at art than read a book about art history or art techniques. We are a visual medium…I like a visual approach to techniques and inspiration.
Books sit on a shelf.
Rich Rubasch
PS…I love books, but most of mine are reference books on software, not techniques.
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Cleaner 6.5 is your ticket. Go to versiontracker.com and get the 6.5.1 update…huge improvement. To view FLV’s I use FLV Viewer (video_viewer_osx) and to view SWF’s I use SWF movie player from mac.eltima.com Both are free.
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Right click on just about any plug in and you can pull up a text editor and see the code. this is like the View Source in Safari. Also, Petes Plugins are a bunch of homegrown plugs….might go to his site and shoot him an email. Also search Google for Too Much Too Soon and he has a bunch of free plugs.
Not exactly what you asked, but since these guys are “growing their own” they might be a resource.
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Cleaner uses the Windows Media 7 engine to encode, so the quality is, well, icky.
If you have Flip4Mac then you are correct, making it streaming is a no go.
However if you have the FREE MPEG Streamclip (squared5.com) you can take your ref clip and convert it to an AVI (use the PhotoJPEG compressor at 75%. Now take this to any PC with the FREE Windows Media encoder. You will need the FREE Quicktime player installed on the PC in order to read the PhotoJPEG encoded AVI, but Windows encoder will like this file.
The Windows Media encoder now can make a great looking movie, make it streamable, crop it etc. In my opinion this is the only way to go, and you need a PC to do it, but the rest is FREE.
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This is all great stuff, however I’m looking big picture. What if you are handing out 1000 copies and they are going to small medical clinics all around the country? The videos on the DVd inspire them to click the link and the web site gives them the information and resources. but there is no way to know if the clinics have the software needed, whether or not they can even load it, or if they will take the time to do it.
Sometimes you don’t have the luxury….therefore I think it is way shortsighted of Microsoft in 2006 to NOT have DVD playback as a standard part of the OS. Macs might cost more, but you get a DVD player, a capable media playerall tightly integrated with the OS.
I understand that Vista might actually come with a DVD player and MPEG decoder. Hooray…it will be 2007.
End of rant, but in reality we don’t always have the option to insist that every recipient of a disc can and will install a DVD player app, and since most of our project will live on the Web, the link on the disc was essential. What the client really wanted was a copy of the Web site on a CD….we argued that the minute you print the 1000 copies, the info on the disk is dated…things can get updated on the web, but not on the discs. Didn’t make sense. We might go with a CD with MPEG1 clips on it and a link to the website.
Again, the project is really for a Web site, but they want a deliverable that can inspire them to go there. We have 4 very inspiring short videos (2 minutes each) that will compel you to have a look at the site, and DVD is a good way to view a video…with the link it’s a great deliverable. A CD with MPEG1 movies is ok, but not as good looking as a DVD…also can’t be viewed in a set top. I realize the link isn’t going to work in a set top, but again, the videos hopefully will compel them to the site.
That’s the story, and I’m sticking to it…any other thoughts on the lack of DVD player/decoder on the PC that is crippling?
Rich Rubasch
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