Uli Plank
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All LG drives (and a few others) support DVD-RAM. But, you are right about space. I hope Blu-Ray will soon be a viable alternative.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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In my experience DL DVDs are even less reliable than single layer. I’d go for DVD-RAM or maybe blu-ray when there are some decently priced burners (and more experience from the field).
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Hi Shane,
had a look at your blog on keying and I might have a suggestion for you.
While I like the very cinematic motion blur of the Pana as well, I normally avoid it on recordings meant for keying for the same reasons you describe (I like DV Matte Pro too). I shoot this stuff with rather short exposure times and add motion blur to the composite. How? Well, RS Motion Blur from http://www.revisIonfx.com (in my eyes the top specialists on vector based video wizardry) does a good job on such footage in many cases. Not in all cases, artificial motion blur has it’s limits, but it works particularly well with keyed composites. A typical defect of vector-based motion blur, it’s influence on non-moving parts of the background, even helps with integration in most of these cases.
Give post motion blur a try, there’s a demo version on their site.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Well, two independent drives for backup are not such a bad solution.
One alternative that comes to my mind is DVD-RAM
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Don’t export in Compressor at all, that’s slow. Export a QT movie after setting the timeline to one of the codecs I mentioned. Uncompressed 8 bit can’t hurt, 10 bit is overkill. The QT movie doesn’t need to be self-contained.
I suppose you want to burn a DVD that can be played in todays SD players, right? So just use the best settings for the duration you have. That’s all.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Since your DVD will be in SD, do yourself a favor: drop the HD footage into a SD sequence (no DV codec, rather uncompressed or Photo-JPEG@75%) and let FCP to the scaling (set the scaling quality in the render settings to high).
Render and export the sequence as a referenced file and then drop it into Compressor with a proper preset (as described here). It’ll be much faster and excellent quality.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I’m glad you found the time to translate it
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Or you could use a Canon still-video camera, a laptop and their Remote Capture software. I got great results this way.
Regards,
Uli
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If you use P2 Log, it’ll generate referenced QT files in its “temp” folder. You can use them in FCP without doubling the space needed, but of course the “CONTTEN” folders from the P2 card need to be online.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Please have a look at: http://www.aulich-adamski.de
(it’ll soon be available in English too)I have demonstrated the P2 workflow in 720p25 and p50 at http://www.hands-on-hd.de (the largest HD workshop in Europe) last week without any flaws.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.