Re: How to make Time Code Window DVD from P2 quick & easy?

Of course out of the camera straight into a DVD recorder is the best option, but if you're stuck working from files I've yet to come up with a truly quick and easy way to do this.

Adding the TC filter in FCP seems to be the best way to go but takes time and eats up 2-3 times the disk space.

If you have the means to use your MXF content directly in Compressor (I use Raylight but I think there are better options these days) then you can encode to MPEG2 and add a timecode filter (which is not as easy to see as the one in FCP) in the same pass. Problem here is, adding lots of clips into a track in DVD Studio Pro is a royal pain. Very frequently the audio clip is a frame or two shorter than the video, which multiplied by tens of clips, leads you to have very out-of-sync audio unless you check and adjust each clip.
Perhaps I should try using some tool to MUX the files before DVDSP... but then that's adding back in a step although it would be a lot faster and more disk-space efficient than duping the original media in FCP.

-Adam


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Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor