[Rowan Banks]

Great question.

For me, it was rendering NeatVideo’s “Reduce Noise” filter across 2 hours of fullHD captured cinefilm transfers I had been doing.

It took 36 hours! Made for some fantastic footage though.

27″ iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 16gb RAM, FCPX

http://www.apricotweddings.co.uk

[Rowan Banks]

Hi again

Nah, infuriatingly FCPX doesn’t support chapter markers….at least, not yet, anyone know if they have been added in 10.0.3?

Assuming Apple still haven’t sorted this, then the process I outlined in compressor is probably the best….

With them adding in MultiCam and various other functions into FCPX recently, I’m confident that they will get round to this and perhaps looking at the DVD authoring side of things over the next few months (at least I HOPE so!!)

Glad to help.

iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 27″, 16GB DDR3, 10.7.2, FCPX

[Rowan Banks]

Hey Ai Zad

No problem, glad to share.

It does indeed take up a lot of hard-drive space, and takes a long time for iDVD to produce the final disc, but at the end of the day that’s just a sacrifice I’m willing to take t ensure my finished film is as good as I can get it.

I’m investing in more external hard-drives now 😉

iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 27″, 16GB DDR3, 10.7.2, FCPX

[Rowan Banks]

No, that gives some choices, but none of which is “Copy” or “Duplicate”

iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 27″, 16GB DDR3, 10.7.2, FCPX

[Rowan Banks]

Doh! Thanks Tom

Much appreciated.

iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 27″, 16GB DDR3, 10.7.2, FCPX

[Rowan Banks]

OK, cheers for getting back to me Craig.

I have managed to achieve a high quality result overnight, here’s what I did:

FCPX – Share>Send to Compressor – Setting Apple>ProRes 422. Imported the Chapter List .txt file and submitted. It created a 114GB .mov file which I thought would be a problem, but I simply imported that into iDVD and the chapters came through with it.

Changed the iDVD settings to Dual Layer and encoding Best and off it went.

The results were the best I’ve seen in the week or so I’ve been fiddling. And although the iDVD menus aren’t as nice as DVDSP, at least I have a suitable product.

I think previously I was using compressor/FCPX to get a MPEG-2 file which iDVD/Toast/DVDSP would then compress to MPEG-2 all over again.

Pro Res is obviously the best way to get the film into a suitable file for these programs to recognise without losing any quality.

Seems quite obvious now, but I really struggled to find this process anywhere.

Anyway thanks for your help and I hope others find this useful.

iMac 2.7GHz Intel Core i5, 27″, 16GB DDR3, 10.7.1, FCPX