Todd Beabout
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You could try “Audio Mixdown” so you would only end up with your 2 audio tracks. When doing that it should convert the sample rate for you if it is off, just be sure that your mixdown is to 48.
-Todd Beabout
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Be sure to put in your registration code for QT6.5 Pro. I don’t run Avid Xpress Pro, but if it requires a QTPro license, that could be your problem.
-Todd Beabout
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OK… Understand that for video to go on a DVD it has to be compressed into an MPEG-2 video file and a seperate audio file (.aiff or AC3). So when you export a DV QuickTime movie from FCP, DVDSP then has to turn it into the seperate files, and compress it on the way. This is what Compressor is for. It came with both FCP and DVDSP if you have these programs you have it. From Final Cut, to to Export
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To sync up sound try putting both audio tracks in the timeline stacked and then zoom in on the waveform. You should be able to see where the waveforms line up. You could also look for a visual cue (i.e. light flashing, something dropping, etc…) that shows up on all 3 cameras and sync those visually and the audio should follow.
To to a quick down-and-dirty color match, try adding the 3-way color corrector and grabbing the color picker next to the highlights color wheel. Click this on your canvas image on something that should be white and you should see some instant results. Do this to all 3 angles and they should match up reasonably close (hard for me to say without seeing the footage).
That being said… You will almost always have to do some color correction with multiple camera shoots, really even single camera shoots with different setups.Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
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Sounds like you would either have to completely rebuild the show in a video program (like AE or even FCP) and then create a video DVD. Your other option would be to record the PowerPoint presentation and then burn that to a DVD, but I don’t believe you will be able to make an interactive DVD with motion in iDVD (or even DVDSP for that matter, but I could be wrong). You might try posting this in the DVDSP forum.
-Todd Beabout
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Everything looks fine, but I would export using Compressor so that the video is already encoded when you bring it into DVDSP. If you don’t want to do this, you could tweak your encoding settings in DVDSP. You might want to try the 2-pass VBR setting, but do a search in the DVD Studio Pro forum. That’s really a better place for this question.
-Todd Beabout
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Make sure that you import them into Avid with the proper setting that you will be working with (i.e. DV, 1:1, whatever…). Once it is imported into Avid you are good to go.
-Todd Beabout
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[Edward Howard] “I have had an issue with a handful of QuickTime reference files out of Avid Xpress when encoding with Apple Compressor which is both partial encodes and incorrect frame size of final MPEG2.”
I would suggest that you just export ONE reference file from Avid. The fact that you had a “handful” may have something to do with the problem. If you have the hard drive space and the reference files keep giving you a problem, you might should try to export a “self-contained” movie and then drag that into Compressor.
I’ve had some weird problems trying to use reference files with Compressor also. You might also try letting DVDSP do the encode itself when you import the QT reference file. Or you could download a free demo of BitVice and see if you have better luck with that.
Good luck.
-Todd Beabout
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Adrenaline should handle that… at least better than Xpress Pro, but even Adrenaline will probably choke with that many layers (especially with transparency). You might need to rethink your workflow though. 16-20 layers seems like a bit much to ask any NLE; sure they will do it, but it will slow it down to a c r a w l. You might want to think more “old school” like in the linear bay days if you have any experience there and be creative in a technical sense in how you get more than one thing to happen on a single track. But, this type of thing should probably be done in a program like After Effects or Combustion then added to your base video track in Avid. You’ll find things like lighting effects and motion blur that can really add to your GFX and not tax your NLE too much.
Just my $.02, hope it helps.
-Todd Beabout
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[Doug Olin] “It would get to about 25% of the file open and then unexpectedly quit. Other projects opened fine but this one project wouldn’t open. We even opened an old version, rerendered and saved again but the next day the new version wouldn’t open. So I downgraded to OS 10.3.8 on that system and it seems to have fixed the problem.
My system has been working fine since 10.3.9 was installed several weeks ago. I haven’t had any problems with FCP or QT files. I haven’t seen any loss of functionalty in FCP.”
Don’t these statements seem to contradict each other? If 10.3.9 worked “fine” then you wouldn’t have had to downgrade back to 10.3.8 right?
I’m with Mike… Stay away from 10.3.9 unless you have a good reason to upgrade.
Just my $.02
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios