| | | | Re: Proxy filenames in XDCAM Transfer by Peter Barrett on Nov 20, 2009 at 2:50:38 am in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum Hi Simon, thanks Andy for the heads-up.
I built Proximate a while ago to copy the proxies stored in the ~/Library/XDCAM Transfer folder and rename them in a folder named according to the XD disc - which means if a disc isn't named in the field, n | | | | |
| | | | DVD SP Format Speed by Chad Brewer on Nov 20, 2009 at 2:14:18 am in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum I searched in the forums and didn't find a consensus on this - perhaps I didn't look far enough in the history, so please excuse me if this has already been answered.
I understand and have witnessed that older DVD players sometimes freak out with an | | | | |
| | | | Re: Final output by Kenton VanNatten on Nov 20, 2009 at 1:02:55 am in the AVID Forum The quality of the output depends very little on the wrapper of the file, but does rely on the codec chosen. If you choose a "lossy" codec and a smaller than DV frame size then the file would look bad.
But, truthfully whenever I have to deliver a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Camera and DVD system for sports events by Mark Suszko on Nov 20, 2009 at 12:01:04 am in the Event Videographers Forum I do not like the mini-DVD camcorders, the media is harder to find, takes longer to edit, and is too expensive for the short duration you get. The XDCam camcorders I believe shoot to what is essentially a bluray disk inside a protective cassette, b | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:50:05 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Well then, it isn't an FCP issue, it is an issue with the camera and/or the tape. Can you try to recapture the footage and see if it happens again? To rule out a slightly corrupt QT file. If it STILL does that, then it is an issue with the footage | | | | |
| | | | animated stills go bad in dvd by Russ Spencer on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:42:24 pm in the DVD Authoring Forum I have a full length doc made in FCP. Have output a self-contained quicktime movie, and made MPEG-2 with it, and built burned DVDs using DVD Studio Pro. My specs on output MPEG-2 were CBR 6.9. Problem comes because I have some still photos (JPEGs) th | | | | |
| | | | Re: Mpeg Streamclip - multiple conversions by Daniel Low on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:40:11 pm in the Compression techniques Forum What were the DVD's MPEG-2's encoded at?
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| | | | PAL to NTSC through black magic by tel jaba on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:35:43 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum hey guys
I need to send out and NTSC DVD to be screened at a theater, my project is PAL HDV (70 minutes) and it needs 8 hours to export to QT, i was planning to take that PAL QT to compressor and convert to NTSC Ive done this before and the qualit | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD to DVD settings by Jim Watt on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:40:14 pm in the Event Videographers Forum Bob,
We use compressor and have for the last 9 years to convert HD to DVD and it works beautifully. Well enough that a lot of screen manufacturers used our DVD's to demo their screens until Blue Rey and HDDVD came out.
Also if you're ever loo | | | | |
| | | | Mpeg Streamclip - multiple conversions by Alberto Mendez on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:22:49 pm in the Compression techniques Forum Operating System = Mac - Snow Leopard
Conversion Software = MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2
Source Codec (DVD files)
Destination Codec = Highest Resolution Video and Audio that doesn't need to render in FCP
Type of Destination Use = Create Demo Reel in FCP | | | | |
| | | | Re: Camera and DVD system for sports events by Travis Longmore on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:47:32 pm in the Event Videographers Forum It will definitely be sitting on a tripod. I think maybe recording to both DVD and HD would be the best way to go. Simul-record to both and then we can make multiple copies when back at the office. We need at least one to go ASAP after the games.
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| | | | Re: Premiere Pro alternatives by Scott Sheriff on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:26:48 pm in the Art of the Edit Forum Maarten
Some thoughts on Mac Pro running Final Cut.
I came to NLE's from the CMX online world, with casual experience in Avid and Media 100. When I decided to buy my own system, I wasn't biased one way or another, but needed to get the most bang | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:25:24 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum #2 Blurry Playback
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry/Low Quality playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has be | | | | |
| | | | Re: HDMI vs HD-SDI by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:09:51 pm in the HD High-End Forum Boy...you are adamant.
What you are asking is if someone has test an MXO2 with an FSI or other broadcast monitor and Panasonic Plasma monitor and compared them to see if they are exactly the same, or close. Those are VERY specific requirements. | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD downconverts softening by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:04:40 pm in the HD High-End Forum Didn't mean to be THAT humorous. But yes, I do notice that SD is not as sharp as HD. Look at peoples faces. In HD you see every pock mark and blemish. SD, it is softer due to the lower resolution and so the skin is smoothed out.
It should be s | | | | |
| | | | Re: Final output by Peter Ovens on Nov 19, 2009 at 8:33:43 pm in the AVID Forum Jon and Kenton, thanks for the education,
it is going into vegas for storage to thier external drive. as far as quicktime movie is that the best quality. DVD's will be made from the Vegas.
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| | | | Re: Long HD program to DVD? by Daniel Low on Nov 19, 2009 at 7:59:03 pm in the Compression techniques Forum [Joshua Carlon] " Is there a setting I'm missing? Average bitrate is 3.3. "
Difficult to tell, you haven't provided any or your settings other than bit rate!
Please provide a detailed run down of exactly what settings you are using.
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| | | | Re: AAF and Final Cut by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 7:14:07 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum What other edit system? Avid? Then get Automatic Duck. With that, you can even use the existing media...
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| | | | Re: Color Newbie by Dan Monro on Nov 19, 2009 at 7:13:04 pm in the Apple Color Forum Ryan's stuff was great. That's how I got introduced to Color. I've had Walter's DVD highly recommended to me; that's my next step. I also saw a Steve Hullfish tutorial years ago that was a great basic introduction to color correction theory, but I'm | | | | |
| | | | Re: "Cinema Verite" by Peter Wintonick by Jeff Breuer on Nov 19, 2009 at 6:55:31 pm in the Film History & Appreciation Forum I don't see any in the US, but the UK Amazon has some, and according to their website, in stock.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cinema-Verite-Defining-Moment-DVD/dp/B00004VVTE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1258656760&sr=1-1
Hope that helps. Haven't se | | | | |
| | | | Re: Make an interactive slide show? by Bob Peterson on Nov 19, 2009 at 6:06:50 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Camcorders record both video and audio. Why do you need Vegas on site? If you need to show her the video, you could simply render and, if needed, burn a DVD of your present timeline. Then use a media or DVD player and record her responses. | | | | |
| | | | Make an interactive slide show? by Kent Clark on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:58:04 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum I'm completing a DVD of an interview with my wife's grandparents. It was done in 1996, her grandfather died in 2002 and her grandmother is now 94. We're making copies for all of the children and grandchildren.
I added many scanned family photos | | | | |
| | | | dvd exporting using adobe encore by Joseph Wigley on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:55:15 pm in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum Hi anyone i have been trying everything since last week Thursday to export my movie on to dvd using Adobe Encore. realizing that my movie of 11,31 gb was way to large for dvd, i then came to think of just trying to export it in to a folder on my H Dr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color Newbie by Ryan Holmes on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:46:08 pm in the Apple Color Forum Michael,
Here are several options:
(1) Walter Biscardi (Cow member and moderator) has a DVD tutorial ($49.95):
http://store.creativecow.net/p/66/stop_staring_and_start_grading_with_apple_color
(2) lynda.com is a paid subscription format ($25/ | | | | |
| | | | Re: Import Error from SXS card by Craig Seeman on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:38:47 pm in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum Use ClipBrowser with CRC to copy to hard drive of your choice.
Copy to backup device of your choice. I use ClipBrowser to properly split BPAV to DL-DVD but Blu-ray certainly would be good too. Personally I think a backup should go to something that | | | | |
| | | | Long HD program to DVD? by Joshua Carlon on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:18:51 pm in the Compression techniques Forum Hello,
I'm working on a fairly long program (1280 x 720 XDCAM EX / 160-170 mins) in FCP, and I need to get it on a DVD 5. Tests out of Compressor are coming out generally good (it's an installation video, and there's not a lot of fast motion or co | | | | |
| | | | Forum scope - subtitling? by Ken Nicholson on Nov 19, 2009 at 4:16:26 pm in the Closed Captioning - NEW ! Forum Great new forum. All my broadcast work is CC these days. I have it done at the local PBS station. This forum will be great for keeping up with latest and greatest, et al...
Wondering if the scope will include subtitling topics? I know there ar | | | | |
| | | | Re: Camera and DVD system for sports events by Mark Suszko on Nov 19, 2009 at 3:37:52 pm in the Event Videographers Forum If the camera sits on a tripod, why can't you just run a cable from the video-output port to the input of a 99-dollar tunerless DVD recorder from walmart (and send audio from a mixer)? Records in real time, then takes between 30 seconds to five minut | | | | |
| | | | Re: Rendering settings. by John Rofrano on Nov 19, 2009 at 3:19:17 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum As far as 24p goes for project and render settings, the frame-rate of 24 is really 23.976 and the 'p' is progressive fields so those are the only two properties to worry about (i.e., frame rate and field order). The built-in Vegas project setting of | | | | |
| | | | FCP to Compressor vs FCP to QT to Compressor? by Aviv Vana on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:01:50 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Surely this has been asked!
but after 1hr 45min of searching i have no choice but to ask? Sorry if this is too easy or obvious LOL.
After capturing from my XH-A1 (hdv, haven't started capturing yet in ProRes), I want to now make a SD DVD with | | | | |
| | | | Premiere CS4 /CPC Caption Maker by Brad Torreano on Nov 19, 2009 at 1:22:45 pm in the Closed Captioning - NEW ! Forum Great new thread, I appreciate the chance to ask questions about this.
My company has recently finished work on 26 episodes of a television show and currently they are being transcribed outside of our office. All shows were cut using Premiere CS4 | | | | |
| | | | Mac help! by Melissa Wood on Nov 19, 2009 at 1:00:54 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Hello,
To be honest I'm not too sure if my post should be in here or in the Encore forum.
The problem I'm having is whislt a compiled encore DVD is being tested on a Mac. After each video is watched it is set up to return to main menu screen, b | | | | |
| | | | Camera and DVD system for sports events by Travis Longmore on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:15:23 am in the Event Videographers Forum I am looking for a camera system that is suitable for filming sports. The situation i am in currently is this: I have been asked to shoot 2 games a week of football and it needs to be given in a DVD format as soon after the game has completed as poss | | | | |
| | | | Re: XDCAM-FCP7-Snow Leopard-New MacPro by Andy Mees on Nov 19, 2009 at 8:21:13 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum An OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible version of XDCAM Transfer has now been released :
http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/868154
XDCAM Transfer for Snow Leopard Now Available.
by Daniel Goyette on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:54:47 pm
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| | | | XDCAM Transfer for Snow Leopard Now Available. by Daniel Goyette on Nov 19, 2009 at 6:54:47 am in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum This message from Sony reach me tonight :
New version of XDCAM Transfer 2.11 is now posted to our support site this version supports new features of new XDCAM EX products and as well for XDCAM EX ONLY it will work under Apple Snow Leopard - Unfort | | | | |
| | | | Re: Compression for output of film? by Vince Becquiot on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:07:01 am in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Going to DVD, you don't really have any choices, it's the Mpeg2 DVD export codec. The bit rate depends on the length of the movie. Under an hour, you can use 7.5 CBR, over that, use a bit rate calculator.
Some newer DVD players do support other fo | | | | |
| | | | Chapter Markers as Buttons in DVD by Amy Dragoo on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:30:26 am in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum I have a training video which I would like to have both a generic "Play" button for the entire video in the menu, and individual buttons for each of the chapters.
How do I go about doing this?
(Sorry if this is a much addressed subject, I hav | | | | |
| | | | Re: DVD Arch Questions by Nigel O'Neill on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:03:05 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Scott
To insert chapters on the timeline in Vegas, press M and give the chapter a name. Do not place a chapter point right at the start of the timeline.
Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assis | | | | |
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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune guides you on a trip from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore using the Debugmode Frameserver plug-in. Adobe Encore CS4 added a new feature that allowed a live Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 sequence to be added to an Encore DVD or Blu-ray project. But what about Encore version CS3 or earlier? The Debugmode Frameserver lets you send a Premiere sequence to older versions of Encore without having to first render an intermediate file from Premiere. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Jeff Bellune |
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In this tutorial, Michael Park shows you how to create an Apparition effect with Trapcode particular, as seen in a film that shall not be named. You'll learn how to create realistic shadows with Red Giant Warp. Also, you'll be introduced to color correction techniques using the After Effects standard toolset, as well as Magic Bullet Looks. In addition, you'll get a sneak peak at Michael Park's upcoming Creative Cow Master Series DVD: Practical Particles. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Michael Park |
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| | | | DVD Authoring | eDVD 4 from Sonic Solutions
In this article, Dr. James Manz gives an overview and review of Sonics' latest upgrade of eDVD to version 4. This is a major upgrade that brings ''Hollywood-level'' capabilities of adding ROM content to DVD video to just about anyone who authors discs.
Review, Tutorial Author: James Manz MD |
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One of Creative COWs Ulead Media Studio Pros leaders, Nick Jushchyshyn takes a look at DVD Workshop 2 from Ulead and concludes with... Given its very competitive pricing, powerful feature set, and ability to create truly professional DVDs, this software gets a solid 4 1/2 cows. Review Author: Nick Jushchyshyn |
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| | | | Adobe Encore DVD | DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD
In this article, CreativeCOW leader Alex Alexzander reviews DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD written by Wes Howell, and published by Focal Press, 345 pages, March 2004, ISBN: 0240805631, and finds it "...pretty close to perfection, in my opinion. If it had been printed in color, it would be over the top." Review Author: Alex Alexzander |
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| | | | Adobe Encore DVD | Designing Menus with Encore DVD
Recently Alex Alexzander decided to explore Adobe's new video collection. As many often do, he found himself looking for that all-important supplement to the product manual before long. In this article, Alex reviews his choice: Designing Menus with Encore DVD by John Skidgel. Read on to find out why Alex gives this book 5 COWs. Review Author: Alex Alexzander |
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| | | | DVD Authoring | Authoring 5.1 Surround DVDs
You may not sell a million copies of your DVD... but at least it will sound like a million bucks. In this DVD authoring tutorial, David Roth Weiss explains how to author 5.1 surround DVDs with Compressor and Soundtrack Pro 2. Tutorial Author: David Roth Weiss |
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CreativeCOW leader Alex Alexzander reviews Apple Pro Training Series: DVD Studio Pro 3, written by Adrian Ramseier and Martin Sitter, published by Peachpit Press, 736 pages, August 2004, ISBN: 0321256107, and concludes that "This book is quite possibly the only book you will need to master DVD authoring with DVD Studio Pro." Read on to find out why..... Review Author: Alex Alexzander |
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| | | | DVD Authoring | Alex Alexzander :: Review :: Sonic eDVD 3
Many DVD authors are familiar to some degree with the various DVD authoring applications that exist. Most of these authoring applications allow the author to add DVD-ROM content. DVD-ROM content is typically how the author provides additional assets to the viewer. In this article, Creativecow's Alex Alexzander takes a thorough look at Sonic's eDVD 3 Web Enhanced DVD. Review Author: Alex Alexzander |
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