Spencer Averick
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Unfortunately I don’t think you can merge a multiclip with an audio file, so it’s best to merge video and audio before creating multiclips. I’ve cut many projects shot on the 5D with a separate audio source. I usually do this:
1) Drop CAM A video into a timeline without camera audio. Drop Zoom audio into same sequence and sync them up. Command+L to link. Now drag this clip from the timeline into a new bin in the browser to create a new master clip with video and Zoom audio only. Set an IN on sync point.
2) Set your IN on CAM B sync point. Now create multiclip with cams A and B. Your cam b audio will still be married into the multiclip, but you can just keep audio on cam A only while editing video into the timeline.
Or this:
1) Set an IN on the sync points for Cam A, Cam B and Zoom Audio A. In the browser, highlight Cam A and Audio A and control+click then select “merge clips”. This will create your new master clip with good audio (and camera audio)
2) Highlight new merged clip and Cam B, then control+click and “create multiclip”. Your new multiclip will have a bunch of audio, but just make sure to only patch the good audio in the timeline when inserting.
There might be a better way but I can usually knock these out pretty quick. Pluraleyes helps if there isn’t a slate. Also, this can get messy quick so I usually make a few temp bins to avoid clutter (“Multiclips”, “temp”, “new master clips”, etc.”). You can delete your original Cam A, Cam B and Audio from the FCP browser once you create these new multiclips.
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Vic, make sure that when you apply the DVD setting in compressor you drag and drop the entire folder “DVD best” onto the file, not just the video setting in the folder. It contains both the audio (ac3) and video.
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Hey Vic!
Honestly man I’ve never used iDVD, but here are the easy steps for Studio Pro:
-Compressor has created 2 files (mpeg for video and aac for audio)
-Open DVD Studio Pro. Drag your 2 files straight from the finder into the little tv box icon (called “track 1”) in studio pro in the upper left hand window. You’ll see your movie in the box and in the timeline and in the “assets” window now.
-You can delete the other box called “menu 1”. Now control click on the “track 1” box to bring up the menu, and select “First play”.
-Now at the top, select “burn”. That’s it!This is without menus, just a straight dvd that plays.
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You don’t really need to setup the project settings. Once your footage has been transcoded to ProRes LT, you just open a new project, drop a clip into the timeline and say “yes” so that the timeline will automatically become your footage’s format.
Once you complete your edit, export a “Quicktime Movie” “self-contained”. This is full res Prores LT file of your finished project. At that point you should see zero quality loss. Now take that file and bring it into Compressor. Apply the “Best Quality” DVD settings to your file and submit. Once Compressor is done, you bring those files into DVD Studio Pro to complete the burn (or build your TS folders in Studio Pro and bring those folders into Toast to burn). With this process your final DVD will look great. -
Right, duh, I forgot you can retain the in and out points if you move the clips from timeline to browser. This is 100x faster.
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Another option would be this-
In the timeline go to your 1st clip, hit X to mark it, then cmd+e to export a Quicktime Movie, make sure “keep self-contained” is deselected then hit okay and send it to a new folder. Repeat 149 times.
After you make the 1st export, you won’t have to change anything except the file name, and each export will take about 2 seconds because they aren’t self-contained. This might be faster than creating new sequences for each, maybe.
After they’re all exported, you can bring them all into Compressor for a batch transcode. -
Just so I’m clear, you have 150 different stand alone “segments” that are all in the same timeline? And you’ve trimmed them down to your liking in this timeline?
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Do your sequence settings match your footage format? If not then FCP will render upon export and will take much longer. If you take a screenshot of the timeline and post I can tell for sure.
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Compressor. Like Shane said below, export “Quicktime Movie” “Self Contained” from FCP. Then bring it into Compressor, slap on the h.264 setting, then make those 3 adjustments. Frame size(in Geometry tab), data rate (in encoder tab in “video settings”), change frame rate to “current”(in encoder tab in “video settings”). Then in the “summary” tab it will tell the estimated file size.
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Yes do what Shane says. If they don’t give you exact specs, use these specs and you’ll have a great looking file under 2 gigs.
-h.264 file
-frame size “1920×1080”
-frame rate “current”
-data rate “10000 Mbps”