Sally Lundburg
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thanks mom 🙂
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Hi,
I had reformated them, to Mac OS Extended (journaled). I”ve been googling
and came across the suggestion to trash my FCP preferences.
I did that, and I looks like now I am able to save the project. I hope this is all good now. Still copying all the files over. I’ve never trashed pref before, so didn’t know anything about that. Hoping for the best.
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Great tip!
Thanks so much..I searched the cow and found this thread during my online (right now).
love it…rescued the shot.
many many thanks. sally -
Hello…
I”m having the same problem, however I’m not as tech savvy as you folks. Prior to this, I’ve only worked with SD. Normally, I would export a quicktime from FCP and import it into IDVD…. that’s all I’ve ever needed to do. However, now I am editing a 1/2 hour industrial doc shot in HDV, and the client has requested to preview a rough cut on dvd. I found this thread after having problems.
So…I exported to compressor and set the settings at dvd best quality 90 min.. It took 22 hours.
But, I’m not experienced in DVD PRO, and IDVD doesn’t seem to recognize the compressor 2pass .mv2 file.
Any suggestions to expedite in the simplest fastest way? I just want to burn a simple dvd with no menu, etc.
My partner and client don’t seem to understand why this is taking me so long.
Arggg.
FYI…I”m working on a Powerbook, FCP5, HDV native capture, with external hardrives…no SATA..RAID…etc. Please let me know if you need more info from me.
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I WORKED!
After your message Shane, I went back to I-Tunes.I realized I had been burning a data cd, not a music cd. So my files were still burning as m4p.
I changed the I-Tunes preferences for “burning” to music cd, and then the I-Tunes preferences for “import” to AIFF, 48/16bit.
I burned a cd, then re-imported the music into I-Tunes. (Now it automatically changes the files to AIFF) Then I dragged each song from I-Tunes into a folder on my desktop. I checked that they were each the AIFF copy, not the m4p version that is still in I-tunes. Shane you are right, you can’t tell, you just see duplicate songs.
Then I dragged that desktop folder into my external hardrive where I’m storing my FCP capture files. Then I imported the folder into FCP. And it’s all good!Sorry to be so explanatory..but hopefully this helps someone else.
I should have come to creative cow first, before spending hours trying to search the manual and figure this out. Thanks Shane for helping out!
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I have purchased music tracks from itunes, but now cannot use them in FCP (they downloaded as m4p files, and when I import them to FCP, they come in as blank tracks.)
I then tried burning a cd from itunes, and then taking the files off the cd and putting them directly in my FCP capture folder, and then converting to AIFF. But the files that are mp4 again come in as blank tracks, both before and after conversion.
In this thread, someone mentioned using i-movie..I tried that…but it didn’t seem to work.
I also tried converting them IN Itunes as someone suggested, but that didn’t work.
I also tried changing my import settings in i-tunes to AIFF and RE-importing the music from a cd I had burned….that didn’t work.
This is really frustrating. I’m not trying to pirate, just use the tracks as audio guides for my composer and clients.
Are there any other ideas?
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thanks for everyone’s answers. The editor was meaning that he would use the FCP scope, and I was wanting to know if this is capable of monitoring broadcast levels. Our deliverable is for an internal company dvd, not for broadcast, but we’ve written into the contract to deliver “broadcast quality”. In my previous projects, i did the offline myself and then went to an online for the final polish and correction.
if anyone has anything further..great. if not…thanks so much!
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David, thanks so much for your reply. I will review all the links you sent.
This forum is incredibly helpful…much appreciated.
sally -
I’m sorry this took me so long to reply, thank you for your response!
I am a little out of my league here. Before this I’ve edited short industrials, and experimental short pieces and a 1 hour doc that originated in super 8 and 16mm. These were all ingested via firewire and finished (SD) to either digibeta or mini-dv for transfer to dvd.
This was all shot in HDV and will be a 1/2 industrial doc. Our promised deliverables include (1 HD, 1 digibeta, and layoff to hardrive.) Now, I wonder why we said 1 digibeta and 1 HD…different formats. my partner works at a PBS affiliate where perhaps this is a standard deliverables, but I wonder if it was necessary for this project…as this project will be for internal dvd distribution. )YOU WROTE:
[No Pro Res in that version as far as I know, however you could edit in DVCPro HD, or at least finish in that codec. How much material will you be loading for your edit? ]I will probably ingest a few hours of footage for this 1/2 hour doc I’m guessing.
YOU WROTE:Depending on that, you could:
Rent some time with an AJA io-HD or Motu V3HD, taking the component output of the HVR-M15U deck, feeding one of those boxes and ingesting the material as DVCPro HD.
OR:Ingest your footage as HDV via Firewire, and then convert it via software to DVCPro HD.
OR:Do your basic edit in native HDV and then convert the material used (plus some handles) to DVCPro HD before you do any titles, graphics etc. ]What is the advantage of converting to DVCPro HD?
YOU WROTE:
[But there are lots of factors to consider. How are you going to deliver this project? If you’re going back out to HDV, it might be best to stay in that codec instead of converting back and forth. ]Deliverable answer above…since I am new to this and am on a small budget (so no new equip or software)…I”m wondering if I CAN just do this on HDV I anticipate very little effects other than lower thirds, titles and color correction. I could try and leave that to the online if I’m having problems. Also another editor I know with teh same camera and deck, down converts to NTSC when she captures. Is that an option? PRO and CONs?
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How are you going to monitor the edit while you work? You can’t feed the deck via firewire and see a picture on a monitor like you can with dv. With your computer a Matrox MXO is probably the least expensive monitoring option.
Wow…I looked up the Matrox…that looks great…will put that on my list, but not sure for now.
In the past I’ve monitored via firewire though my camera, now I’ve montiored capture via rca cables out of my deck. I didn’t know you couldn’t do this for the edit.YOU WROTE:
[Are you anywhere near a major market where equipment rental might be an option?]
I hate to say small budget again. but I am also in the deep dark beauty of the mountains of the big island of hawaii. so I have to build my own empire. Slowly. -
I’m sorry this took me so long to reply, thank you for your response!
I am a little out of my league here. Before this I’ve edited short industrials, and experimental short pieces and a 1 hour doc that originated in super 8 and 16mm. These were all ingested via firewire and finished (SD) to either digibeta or mini-dv for transfer to dvd.
This was all shot in HDV and will be a 1/2 industrial doc. Our promised deliverables include (1 HD, 1 digibeta, and layoff to hardrive.) Now, I wonder why we said 1 digibeta and 1 HD…different formats. my partner works at a PBS affiliate where perhaps this is a standard deliverables, but I wonder if it was necessary for this project…as this project will be for internal dvd distribution. )YOU WROTE:
[No Pro Res in that version as far as I know, however you could edit in DVCPro HD, or at least finish in that codec. How much material will you be loading for your edit? ]I will probably ingest a few hours of footage for this 1/2 hour doc I’m guessing.
YOU WROTE:Depending on that, you could:
Rent some time with an AJA io-HD or Motu V3HD, taking the component output of the HVR-M15U deck, feeding one of those boxes and ingesting the material as DVCPro HD.
OR:Ingest your footage as HDV via Firewire, and then convert it via software to DVCPro HD.
OR:Do your basic edit in native HDV and then convert the material used (plus some handles) to DVCPro HD before you do any titles, graphics etc. ]What is the advantage of converting to DVCPro HD?
YOU WROTE:
[But there are lots of factors to consider. How are you going to deliver this project? If you’re going back out to HDV, it might be best to stay in that codec instead of converting back and forth. ]Deliverable answer above…since I am new to this and am on a small budget (so no new equip or software)…I”m wondering if I CAN just do this on HDV I anticipate very little effects other than lower thirds, titles and color correction. I could try and leave that to the online if I’m having problems. Also another editor I know with teh same camera and deck, down converts to NTSC when she captures. Is that an option? PRO and CONs?
YOU WROTE:
How are you going to monitor the edit while you work? You can’t feed the deck via firewire and see a picture on a monitor like you can with dv. With your computer a Matrox MXO is probably the least expensive monitoring option.
Wow…I looked up the Matrox…that looks great…will put that on my list, but not sure for now.
In the past I’ve monitored via firewire though my camera, now I’ve montiored capture via rca cables out of my deck. I didn’t know you couldn’t do this for the edit.YOU WROTE:
[Are you anywhere near a major market where equipment rental might be an option?]
I hate to say small budget again. but I am also in the deep dark beauty of the mountains of the big island of hawaii. so I have to build my own empire. Slowly.