Tom Brooks
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Use Export/Quicktime Movie as opposed to Export/via Quicktime Conversion. The best settings are the settings used by your sequence–in other words, select “Use Current Settings.”
Then you may choose to “Make Movie Self-Contained” or not. Selecting this will make a new movie based on a copy (?) of the media for your sequence but does not result in another generation of compression. If you do not select this, your movie will simply be a pointer which references the media existing on your scratch disks. The only problem with that “reference movie” is that sometimes media gets moved and then the reference movie will error out when it tries to play. It’s your choice…reference movies save time and drive space. Self-contained movies are completely portable.
Do not select Recompress All Frames.
Oh, and remember to Export All Markers, as David reminds us. By the way, I have found that judicious use of Compression Markers in a sequence can improve encodes, but this relates more to Web video than DVD.
Direct the resulting movie to a folder of your choice and you’re ready to go to Compressor. Meanwhile, FCP won’t be tied up during a long encode. Hope that’s not too much info. Hey, I’m taking lunch, so there it is.
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David,
Is it your experience that VBR in general is not beneficial for most short-form DVDs or is there a danger of some other potentially bad side-effect from the direct Final Cut export using Compressor?
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I believe if you hover your mouse over the yellow triangle, it will tell you what the warning is. For me, it’s always that the file name already exists. Truth be told, I’m not sure what happens if you just ignore it and don’t change anything. My sense is that it overwrites the existing file. I always change the filename to get rid of the warning. Doing that could fix your troubles. Always test compression on a small segment to work out the kinks.
Others will give you more. Many suggest you not tie up FCP for the export. INstead, export a quicktime movie of the timeline and take that separately into Compressor. There are a lot of efficiency tricks you can learn with Compressor.
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I have no idea what’s causing this. Great mystery though. Your deliverable is the Quicktime? So the Kona output is not an issue at the moment?
Is the strap 100 percent opaque at the top and translucent at the bottom?
It’s not likely an RT Extreme Kona bug, because it happens on a rendered effect, not realtime.
I’ll try it on my LHe and see if it shows up.
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Jason,
Let me get this straight–it’s just the strap that is being created in Photoshop elements and is keyed with the Image Mask effect?
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Image mask also works. You place a white to black gradient image in the ‘image well’ of the effect controls. This is a real-time effect.
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A new computer is tempting. But if it’s just the battery, you can get some more immediate use out of it. That’s definitely a good tip and worth a try. Batteries are absolutely available. I have a few older macs that that around for which I can get batteries at my local battery specialty shop.
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I meant to point you to this link:
https://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n300537
This is an example of a basic troubleshooting method. This example is aimed at video problems, but it uses some of the same steps that would be involved if the hard drive was going bad, or the directory structure or the operating system was corrupted. The idea is to start with simple steps that isolate the problem. Failure to boot problems usually involve resetting PRAM, starting from install disks, and running disk utility. If that doesn’t work, you might have to progress to reinstalling software with Archive and Install. But get professional help before you get in too deep. -
Google something like Macintosh diagnostic help and see what you get. Some of the best help is on the Apple Support site, if you can find the right article. I pasted a link below that I found elsewhere which might help. Start with that.
You need to go through a standard system diagnostic procedure. Unfortunately, I’m no expert on those. But, there are certain steps involved that can focus in on the problem area. Do you ever get anything on the screen before it quits? It sounds like your system board is OK, but it’s possibly not finding OS-X to boot up with. So, your hard drive could be faulty or your video system…
I guess the basic need is to get the computer started up one way or another and then run some diagnostics and repairs on it.
YOu can try to start in Safe Mode. After the chime, hold down Shift. This prevents the system from loading anything but the minimum services and extensions. If something in your software is causing a conflict, Safe Mode might get around it.
If that doesn’t work, you can startup from your OS-X install disk by holding down the C key during startup.
After that you can start with Disk Utility to see what’s up with your startup hard disk. Repair permissions.
See what other suggestions you get and look for articles like the one in the link below.
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I think you have to place the HD sequence in a SD timeline. This will letterbox the HD withing the 4:3 screen.