[Tom Wolsky]

Take a screenshot. Put it on the web somewhere. Post the URL.

Because it didn’t happen on different types of projects should not dismiss the drive as a possible cause. Every encode, both source and process, is different, especially if you’re going directly from an FCP sequence.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t know what warning symbol you’re talking about now. You’d better post a screenshot. Obvious FCP is crashing during the compression. Make sure the media drives are correctly formatted and they are not going to sleep.

I dislike and recommend against sharing to Compressor. I think the applications work better if you export to QuickTime Movie and encode the exported file.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

The warning symbol you can’t re-encode that file to the same location with the same name, if that’s the one I think you’re writing about. Try changing the name of the output file and see if it goes away.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Digital Heaven has an alignment guide generator. You can’t snap to it. You can also copy a clip and paste its attributes to another clip.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Export a reference movie.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

You don’t really mean FCP3, do you?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

No. A sequence has to be in a specific format. You cannot output a file with multiple codecs and formats in it.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

It’s not going to look good if you go down to DV. It’s not going to look good on DVD. If you want something for DVD I’d suggest you reduce the resolution of your monitor and do a screen capture at DV widescreen size. That’s the only hope. Basically the detail on this screen that I’m typing on, and which is probably very similar to yours, is far, far beyond the capabilities of compressed video formats like DV. Just not going to happen. It can’t compress these words from this screen and still keep them legible.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

You can’t record your whole screen if it’s in the wrong aspect ratio to be edited. If you can scale your media down to 1280×720 them do it. Or down to 720×480 anamorphic and as Chris said work in DV50, but be aware of the limitations of SD media. Why are you going to SD? Is thus going to DVD? That’s going to be a problem for computer screen capture. There is too much detail for a heavily compressed format like this. To do this properly you need a scan converter that can capture the screen directly to a video format.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

“1680×1050”

What kind of size is that? If you can’t do a screen capture at 1920×1080 do it at 1280×720.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”