Russ Haskell
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Yes, assuming you have a Blu-Ray burner and are OK with a spartan menu. https://discussions.apple.com/message/18905362#18905362
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I’d be optimistic. With only a slightly faster model, I encounter no problem. Multiple streams would require a different approach.
Russ
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AFAIK, FCS 3 can still be purchased from Apple, over the phone, at 1-800-myapple.
Russ
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IMO, the new DVD pre-sets are very aggressive (high) with average bit rate of 7.7 Mbs and 9.0 maximum. For broader playability, Share>DVD>Advanced Settings and in Compressor roll these numbers to around 6.2 and 7.5, which are the settings for the previous versions of Compressor.
Good luck.
Russ
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IMO, setting the resize setting to Best is a reasonable choice and shouldn’t bog down the process. It didn’t register with me that you were also changing frame rate; Better is probably fine. Too many Best settings combined could produce extraordinary processing times.
Russ
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You’re right that you should be converting the Canon’s h.264 files to Pro Res for editing. The preferred way to do this is via Log & Transfer within FCP. There is a helpful tapeless workflow tutorial by Shane Ross, which should come up from a search of these boards. If you don’t have the original intact card structure, Compressor can certainly do the Pro Res transcode, but it’s not very fast. In situations like that, I tend to use MPEG Streamclip which is faster.
Compressor should do a pretty good jogb scaling the 1080 clips to 720. Go into the frames controls tab and set scaling to Best. How did you try to resize…in the Geometry tab?
Russ
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I should have been clearer. Yes the pixel aspect ratios are the same for both cameras – square for 1920X1080…but non-square in the case of the XF’s 1440 mode.
Russ
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Just regarding part of your question: the XF100 can shoot either 1920 or 1440x 1080…also 720p.
And I’ve found multi cam edits fine with Plural Eyes synced material.
Russ
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When you use Quick Time Conversion as the export, then compress in Squeeze, you have added at least one unnecessary layer of compression. Instead export as QuickTime movie current settings. Try bringing directly into iDVD and let it do the down scaling. Alternatively, take your master into Squeeze and bring that into iDVD. Compare the two and choose.
Good luck.
Russ
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Streamclip does have a batch option; under List in the toolbar.