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Can FCP do This? Can Anything?


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Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Ian Venables on Mar 24, 2008 at 3:52:04 pm

Can FCP (or PremPro or Xpress) batch output a bunch of files with a standard open video, watermark, and closing video attached? I need to output a whack of files for a video site and they want a standard "header" and "footer" on the files along with a watermark. I'd love to be able to get a machine to do that grunt work, instead of tying up a body... can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks,

Ian

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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by del chapple on Mar 24, 2008 at 6:25:36 pm

Rhozet can do this(at least the Beta we are running).. but its expensive 5g's for one licence and you need to by the PC..

d

you cant hear my inner voice scream... can you..?

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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Arnie Schlissel on Mar 24, 2008 at 6:42:09 pm

You should look into using Traffic from xmedit.com for this.

Arnie

Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman

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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Jeff Carpenter on Mar 24, 2008 at 7:32:14 pm

If you can't find anything to do this task, here's the workflow I'd suggest:

1) Export your header and footer as Quicktime files that have the same settings as the original videos.

2) Open those files plus one of the subjects in Quicktime. Copy and past the header and footer from player to player. Use the playhead to show where the 'paste' should occur. Then save and close the video file. Then, move on to the next one.

3) Run all the finished files through Compressor and apply the watermark there.

Try this on 2 files to make sure it all works, but as long as it works I think this is the quickest and easiest method. Plus, step 2 could be taught to anyone, even if they don't know anything about video editing.

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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Robert Longwell on Mar 24, 2008 at 8:57:06 pm

Try Telestream's Episode series of encoding software:
http://www.flip4mac.com/episode.htm

It can set Bumper/Trailer videos (aka "header" and "footer" videos) as well as set a watermark in the transcoded file.

Robert Longwell

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Re: Can FCP do This? Can Anything?
by Paolo Ciccone on Mar 24, 2008 at 9:39:11 pm

If this is for a website and the files are in QuickTime then you don't need to modify the videos, you just need to create a SMIL file that instructs the QT plugin to create a sequence. For example:

SMILtext <smil xmlns:qt="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/smilextensions" qt:autoplay="true">
<head>
<layout>
<root-layout id="main" width="640" height="360" background-color="black" />
<region id="r1" width="640" height="360" />
</layout>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/Header.mov" region="r1" />
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/MainVideo.mov?" region="r1" />
<video src="http://www.yoursite.com/videos/Credits.mov?" region="r1" />
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

If you replace the entries in there with your header, video and credits clips and save this as a .mov file QuickTime or the QT plugin will play it as a standard movie.
You can generate a SMIL file with a simple script, I can write it for you if you don't have the experience, or you can have the script act as a filter for all the files in a given directory in your web server and the file can be generated on the fly when the video is required.
You can also place a watermark, see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_S... for the whole spec.
Best of all, it's free, that's just another feature of QuickTime.

--
Paolo Ciccone http://www.paolociccone.com
Hellriser Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

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