Viktor Kibanov
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For me the Migration Tool was useful, 2 weeks ago I bought a new 17´MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.2 and made this migration (from Snow Leopard 10.6.3 working on MacBook Pro early 2008 – I had no time for clean install), after that I had to introduce the number of FCS and repair disc permissions. Actually I´m waiting for new faster hard drive to make the fresh install but for now I´ve just made one short and simple project with some titles and color correction and everything worked with Matrox Mini Max, that was AVCHD footage with ProRes transcode and AVCHD disc to finish (in Toast10). I didn´t check everything, I´m not professional and use FCP for simple editions of some medical videos and home videos as well. But I was amazed! So sometimes migration tool works well. You can check it if this works for you as well. Happy New Year to everybody!
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I´d like to know about Sony laptops – will them work correctly with Premiere Pro CS5 accelerating render?
I´m planning to buy one – VPCF 1390X with i7-740 QM, full HD display (1980×1080) and graphic card Nvidia 425M GPU with 1 G of memory, it has usb-3 and e-sata. In theory it will work, but if anybody has experience with them? Any help, please.
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I´m not professional and don´t have AJA, Kona, Matrox to do downconversion, so I used these recommendations with very good quality: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hdv_timeline_to_sd_dvd.html
Now I use other options: the fast way – timeline to DV/DVCPRO NTSC (if your footage is NTSC, if not – DV PAL, but I didn´t check it) with QT conversion and then Compressor DVD MPEG 2 highest quality; the other way – timeline to 1080HDV30p with QT conversion (progressive) and then – Compressor DVD MPEG 2 highest quality – with slightly better result. -
Hi, David, we know that nobody wants our professional help, but life says…
Yes, the most of our videos are for presentations during courses of some surgical tecniques. I found that we had better quality with progressive video. Few years ago we had to render to mpeg1 (now is the same thing – for power point presentations with terrible videos), but when I changed to Mac I could use Keynote which accepted – mpeg2. So now I have presentations in two modes – for PC and for Mac. We don´t use HD matherial yet, we have HD endocamaras, but the recording is in DVD-recorder, so the jump to HD is impossible yet. Some video footage (open surgery or open part of some surgeries) we take in HDV and now in AVCHD, but then is downscaling. So we are not at the top of the progress. But for home use I try to stay modern and made some home DVD and AVCHD disks and now I´d like to make some Blu-ray movies. Perhaps I´ll buy Premier CS4 with Encore, because Toast 10 with HD plugin doesn´t encode well – my Sony Blu-ray player doesn`t accept the disks that I made, Mac doesn´t accept Blu-ray for reproducing(Toast has its own BD player) or reproduce with stops every 5 seconds. PC is a little better now, BDwriter (LG – I bought it last month) has its own software suit, but doesn´t accept video files made in FCP, Elecard AVCHD encode video but not audio (I tried it with one friend of mine who has some professional equipment for editing). So video editing is my hobby, but now I can´t enjoy it, temporally, sure.
Thanks for your time
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David, thanks for responding me. I don´t know why (if you don´t know, I know less) but that worked for me and now it is part of my workflow. My videos at that time were open, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgeries for educative course in the congress (I´m surgeon and urologist in Mexico), one part was taken with Sony HC1, the others – with endoscopic camaras, it was used HDV in Final Cut Pro for external video by Sony (very fine camara with really high definition – viewing directly from camara) and resulting videos in DVD were terrible because of lost details in the picture, so I had to find something, and this forum was very helpful. I tried to use Episode with poor quality results, Sorenson with dark picture (I have some friends with professional equipment). I didn´t mention Toast and iDVD? Terrible with HDV convertion. And looking for help I found your explanation to somebody how to make DVD with really high quality – pass by pass, I took one part from Ken Stone portal and the other part yours – and that was successful finishing.
Now I am looking for AVCHD workflow in Mac (or in PC), but very little helpful yet.
Thanks again. Very professional and generous approach. If you need my professional help – you are welcome.
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I am not professional, but if it can help you. I had a lot of problems with compression of HDV to MPEG2, but after everything I found this workflow for me:
1) export QT self-contained,
2) open and then export the resulting file with QuickTime (not Compressor) HDV1080p30 (if you don´t need interlaced; for interlaced video is better to use DVC pro 50, but the quality is not the same)
3) In Compressor – m2v and acc – and then in DVDSP – everything suggested by Mr. David Roth Weiss
(Thanks to David´s posts I returned to FCS2, because before I couldn´t obtain the needed quality of DVDs to see them in plasma)
The resulting file has very good quality, I think better than Procoder 3 and Liquid.
The point is to go progressive, interlaced DVCpro50 is medium quality, ProRes didn´t serve to me, but probably I didn´t use it right.
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I´m not a professional, but isn´t it a problem, that video is encoded as progressive? Will it have problems for playing DVD on TV? (https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hdv_timeline_to_sd_dvd.html)
I found the other way to get interlaced video with very acceptable quality for DVD SP:
The edited HDV footage is converted to DVCpro50 NTSC Anamorphic in Compressor and then converted to MPEG-2 6.2 Mbps 2-pass (without any change in both). The video stays interlaced.
I tried to do the same with Episode Pro (my friend is profy and has it in his studio, I don´t know the version, think it is 4), but it was almost equal (awful) to direct HDV-DVD encoding. We tried BitVice (old version – 1.2), the resulting video was good but dark (sure that it can be corrected). So Compressor was better for this kind of work.
Is there any other mode for encoding HDV to DVD with better quality?
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Camtasia in PC or Snapz Pro in Mac. I had some experience for medical education serie. Camtasia 5 works great and is very easy to edit. But then I had to do render in Avid for DVD encoding. But I’m not professional.
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How can I encode in Final Cut Pro in m2t or m2p for HDV footage interchange, this variant is more economic in space use. HDV made in QT encoding in Final Cut is not readable in PC. Or I don’t have some codec? Thanks.