[Terry Flaxton]

Doh! Of course – thanks again for the point about re-write-ables and single record DVD’s.

So I have some swf’s which I want to import into encore but that only takes FLV’s or F4V’s – right ? So how do I turn an swf into either of those two file systems (I search around the net but all I seem to get is windows solutions). Seems like CS4 desn’t take swf’s and output into either – unless I’m missing something. Am I?

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Warren – I’m at the beginning of the understanding of this stuff so bare with my ignorance. You said “I do use BD-RE to test before committing to a BD-R. ” Can you explain why to me? Also, Does encore take in flash files? I ask this because when authoring a standard DVD I managed to encode a 4 video stream multi angled project that I need to replicate at HD level but I think the streaming rates would be too high (I did that on DVD studio pro and can’t find anything on encore that would do that). SInce I’ve managed to crack multi-angling in flash I wondered if I could drop swf files on to a blu ray disk and use their operability instead of Blu-Ray’s lack of operability – if you see what I mean.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Ray – approximately how long does a 60 minute dvd take to encode (or 30mins or 90mins) whichever you can give me a time on would help. I have a few 60 minute blu rays DVD’s to make

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Warren – that’s great info. I shall try this asap.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Actually Walter – I don’t even have to look: they say: “You already spent a load of dough, sucker, now you got to spend some more”

I’ll run Color on the octo cor with the big fat graphics card and my HD stuff on my old 2.7 with the decklink

Thanks for all your help…

[Terry Flaxton]

Thanks Walter. I actually run a decklink card and a D Link that powers my 23 inch apple display so I put in simple graphic cards to run my other two monitors – so does this mean I have to upgrade from the current one which is an ATI Radeon 9650.

So, to be specific the message is:

Open to intitialize Open GL – make sure video desktop is disabled

Of course I can’t start color to disable video desktop – do I just go buy another graphics card ?

Sorry for being stupid – best, Terry Flaxton

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

If I set the frame rate to 50 on the camera do I need do anything else to the firestore I’ll be using ? And will that just import to Final cut in normal mode – or do I need change anything on the settings there ?

In terms of DVCPro HD, I’d heard you could import straight from the camera some kind of inwrapped file.

Thanks in advance

[Terry Flaxton]

oops – I think this is the wrong forum – I’ll move this over to the Final Cut Pro European Users Varicam Forum – apologies to everyone who doesn’t have to deal with 25p !!!!!!

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally