[Todd Reid]

not sure whats going on, but try this…

export the 3 second chunk that you want to use out to a quicktime (not quicktime conversion), then bring it back into your project and use that in your sequence. This should “fool” final cut into exporting properly.

[Todd Reid]

Create an SD project (can use easy setup – dv-ntsc), and import your quicktime.
Drag it into an SD timeline. You can leave the ratio as is and have letterboxing OR size it and do a “pan and scan” type thing to follow action.
Of course, what you are doing is downconverting to standard definition, so that your movie will play on regular dvd players. Export as QT again, then DSP should recognize.
Unless you have an hd/dvd burner your going to have to stick to sd.
I have heard that as long as your file size fits, you can put hd content on a regular dvd. Of course you would need an hd/dvd player to view it. I would bet that at almost 2 hours, you are well over the size limit.

I haven’t yet made any HDDVDs so I’m not sure, but I would guess that your version of DSP doesn’t have the capability.

I hope this makes sense. Most of my projects now are shot & created in 1080i, exported in AVID DNx 720p codec, then I do the SD project thing and deliver the same video in sorensen3 (yeah, I know. But thats how client wants it). So my client has 2 versions of the same video, one to show in HD, the other for the stores that haven’t upgraded to HD yet.

[Todd Reid]

Everything suggested is rock on.

To add a couple more little things…

Make sure your overlays are not turned on (safe title, time code, excess luma) and make sure your viewer/canvas aren’t overlapping (do the standard window arrange to make sure).

the problem is most likely the audio mixdown.

I do all these things before all output and I seldom have dropped frames troubles.

[Todd Reid]

Try this…

Export a FC QT, bring that into a new project, easy set up as DV-NTSC.
Bring in your QT, then you can keep it letterboxed or blow it up to do a pan and scan type of thing.
Now obviously, this takes you out of the HD world, and may not be considered “really high quality”.

If that is too low of quality for you, I don’t see why you couldn’t eliminate the easy set up, and just make a new sequence at your 640×480, then put your exported QT in.

I do the above step for a client that wants both 1280×1080 HD and 720×480 SD.
I’ve sent both ways, pan&scan and just recently, maintained the letterboxing, they are happy with the results and it doesn’t take too much time on my end.

[Todd Reid]

I have posed this question to many engineers in the past, and everyone gives different answer. However most tell me that the majority of the time if a piece of equipment is going to fail, it is when you turn it on or off. Therefore in a lot of large post environments you will see all machines on. There is a large drawback to this…when a piece of equipment is left on, it “learns” that it should be on, and there is a larger possibility that it will fail once turned off (like for servicing or relocating).

Tape decks, your specific question, I think are a little more robust and should have fewer troubles with this. I don’t know of any problems or harm that leaving power on would cause (other than the slight chance described), but I’m not an engineer.

I have seen this happen a few times with other equipment, when a large company I worked for moved to a new building, SEVERAL of their monitors (which had been powered on for a few years without problems) failed to power back up in the new building. Also I have had a media harddrive fail after many years when I shut down the system to add additional drives, the original one never came back.

So having said all this, I do not keep my personal equipment powered on.
But if you have equipment that has been left on for say more than a year, it is probably best to let it remain on.

just my 2 cents!

[Todd Reid]

I recently had this same problem.

I found out that mpeg 1 is suppossed to be 320×240.
I was able to use Squeeze and get it full screen, but the quality was very bad.
In fact, even though I know its possible cause I’ve seen it, I was unable to get an mpeg1 output to be both full screen AND good quality, I had to choose one.
I used Compressor, Cleaner, Squeeze and Mpeg Streamclip.

I ended up bailing on that codec and talked with the lcient to find out wmv would meet her needs too.

[Todd Reid]

I have a first run, so I guess I’m stuck.

I thought this might be the case, as I’m not sure why I would only get 2GB of Ram if I had ther option for more.

thanks

[Todd Reid]

https://avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=10554

sorry it took so long, but here it is.
I didn’t notice that if it was universal or not, but it worked on my intel mac, so I’m assuming it is.

cheers

[Todd Reid]

got a link from the FCP forum, installed the avid codecs, went to batch export and viola…..I had my DNx codec.

The client that requested it hasn’t had a chance to look at it, but other than a large file size (therefore lengthy ftp) I think everything worked.

It played a little jerky on my MacBook Pro in the quicktime wrapper, but I hope the client is happy.

thanks

[Todd Reid]

it was hidden in the batch export feature. Doing a test run now.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!