Sutharsan Bala
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for the reply; is there any tutorial for this program? I don’t know how XML works. Do I just export the XML from FCP, then open the app and export again to .PAC? How can I cross-check if the file works with the video? (I have no program that supports .PAC I think).
Best,
-Sui-
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – A. Einstein
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Hi!
I have a movie and the company that’s going to make the DVD is asking for .Pac (and/or) .890 files along with the movie. Is it possible to export to these formats using your program? (Subbits). Will upgrades etc. be free with this program later? Are you still developing it?
Best,
-n0c-
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – A. Einstein
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Sorry to hear about your predicament. I’m a recent filmschool graduate and I’ve just gotten my first job. It’s doing a documentary for a firm in my town. This is not a film company, and they don’t (as always) have any money for the project. Regardless, I’ve been very stringent about the contract, and signing it, and we’ve been negotiating it for almost three months now (with summer vacation in between, some time was taken off discussing the issue).
To get back to your post – I recommend you join a union of some sort that offer legal assistance and / or financial help. I joined a union right after I was offered this job and my union has helped me a lot concerning what kind of pit falls to avoid and what things that I should remember to have in my contract. ALWAYS make a contract for your work. You probably know this by now.. 🙂
As for copyright etc. You are ENTIRELY entitled to the copyright of your work if you haven’t signed anything that says otherwise. In other words, you have a pretty good case concerning her using your work. I’d def. use this as a leverage. You’re entitled to your money and you HAVE TO go and get it. So I’d suggest you hire a lawyer, or join a union (my union has legal services for free) – and tell her that. You tell her that you will be forced to take legal action unless she is willing to sit down and communicate with you like an adult. You’ll see that as soon as you involve authorities, things usually have their own way of working out.. 🙂
All the best to ya!
-n0c-
P.S – Remember, just because it isn’t copyrighted don’t mean you don’t OWN the copyright. She could be facing a lot of costs if she is using your work for her own benefit. You HAVE TO use this to your advantage.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – A. Einstein
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Thansk! I used the Prores codec and it looks quite nice! Don’t know if it’s the BEST quality but I’m happy for now. Thanks for your input! – and Happy New Year!
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I tried to put the video rendering option to “render all YUV in high quality” and I put motion estimation to “best”. It took me 14 hours to render the whole film, the result was OK. I made a Quicktime reference movie which also worked fine. Then I opened up compressor and chose “DVD best quality 90 min” – the result is again purple. I don’t know what to do?
By telling me to put the time line in an SD sequence, do you mean I have to create a new sequence with SD settings? These would be 700x something by 576? And then render the whole project again using “high precision YUV” ? And then making a QT movie and then export via Compressor?
If I make a “self-contained” QT movie (which will probably take as long time as to render the whole film again) isn’t that better? Then I send that to compressor, will that solve my “purple” problems?
Thanks for your help!
-S-
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Thanks Rafael – I am trying to do the conversion in 2 steps, but the first step is the problematic one because the image turns purple through compressor (the mpeg-2 file) – even when I first do an SD (DV-Pal) conversion. I don’t understand why? I’m pretty sure though, that it must have something to do with the 10-bit rendering in YUV or something?