Russell Lasson
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Your best bet is to run a quick test. Just duplicate several of the same clip on the timeline, export it and compress it and see how long it takes.
I would suggest a one pass (fast setting in compressor) if it doesn’t have to be the best quailty right now.
-Russ
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I’ll arrive Monday morning. I’ll look forward to seeing you at AJA and chatting about the FinalTouch update (hopefully!!!)
-Russ
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If they kept the crossgrade going up until the day that FCP 6 was announced, then there would be quite a few people stuck with their discs in the mail who end up not wanting the crossgrade any more. They really just needed to clear everything out even if it means people can’t get 5.1 any more.
I you would have sent it in today and had no idea that an upgrade was coming, you’ve probably be pretty mad as well. It’s really a no win situation for Apple.
-Russ
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So you are going to be playing it back on an HDTV using an Apple TV or something?
Shake is the way to go if you want to upconvert. I’m a little rusty with it and don’t have the time to dig in right now. It’s not exactly user friendly either. You could try After Effects first to see if you like the results. It’s easier to use.
The “old” SD DVD Hollywood titles look better than your DV 4:1:1 timeline compressed to DVD using preset setting in Compressor because they really know what they’re doing and have the tools to do it. And did I mention that they didn’t shoot their features on a DV 4:1:1 camera? That might sound a little brutal. Sorry.
-Russ
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They will work in the existing project. It will dump all of your render files.
-Russ
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I second Walter. The Panasonics are great monitors.
-Russ
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I’d just export it from whatever you edited as. You’re going to crunch it anyway.
-Russ
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If you have to show it on that TV then I suggest upconverting your show using AE, Shake, or Compressor and then playing it off of an Apple TV, Xbox 360, or Playstation 3.
-Russ
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I love my MacBook Pro. It’s been really fun. The next big thing will be when a quad core processor comes out for portables. But who knows when that will happen.
-Russ
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That could be another problem. SD DVD don’t scale very well to HD TVs. I’ve seen some pretty good SD footage look like crap on an HD TV because it scales the image to match the pixels and doesn’t do a very good job.
You should try it on an SD TV and see how it looks as you continue to trouble shoot.
-Russ