Scot Walker
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Great. Thanks for all the info!
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If you “Export Using Compressor”, you will then have all kinds of presets for MPEG2 in Compressor. I think you can just drag and drop FCP project files into Comrpessor too, if you want, if you don’t have FCP loaded and you want to encode a project from the Finder.
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OK, thank you!
Do you use the Animation codec to take projects to those applications?
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1. Anything is possible, but my clients expect me to handle the VO.
2. No. They can do it straight into anyone’s computer and then send you the audio file via the Internet or CD.
3. I wouldn’t do it in your office since you have a lot of noise (computers). Get it done professionally.There are pros who do VO and do the recording in their home studio. You can listen to them reading your script on the phone. The guy I use most often, Gary Williams, is a pro. I listen to him over the phone and then when the session is done, he edits it together and then uploads the file to my server. It’s $425 an hour for that.
Many people go into professional studios, which charge around $125 and up per hour with engineer. You set up a time and have the VO talent and your client show up with the script. They read it and it gets recorded and you leave the studio with a CD of your audio.
Believe me, having a pro do it will make your project much more polished. And getting union talent will save you time in the studio. Gary Williams reads entire pages without flubbing lines. He does pick-ups quickly too. Pick-ups is the term used when you have a change in the script and you need your VO talent to go back and read just a line or two. Clients can’t seem to stick with a script and make changes often. It’s like they aren’t even paying attentioni until you are right up on the deadline. 🙂
Good luck.
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Thanks for the response.
Do you have any idea what I would be looking for in the Compressor custom settings? The only place I see anything about audio in the MPEG2 dialog is in the Extras tab – “Multiplexed MPEG-1/Layer 2 Audio: Select this to create an MPEG-2 Transport stream with multiplexed audio.”
Any other ideas or alternative software that does it?
Thank you
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It’s this darn Audio MIDI Setup application bug again. Motion changed it, again, to 48Khz output and my project file get screwed up and that audio wouldn’t play. I’ve posted about this before and I must be really tired to not have remembered this bug.
I haven’t figured out what causes the change, but it’s annoying. There’s an Apple tech note about the solution for this bug.
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If you change the direction to Right to Left, it flips off.
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I use Compressor and the DVD presets for DVD output. Works like a champ.
I had an issue with a font and horizontal animation and it turned out my font was too thin. I made it a bit fatter and it smoothed it out nicely.
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Can you elaborate a bit more on what you are doing?
If you want to make a particle emitter out of a logo, select the logo and then click on the “Make Particles” button in the toolbar.
Is that what you want to do?