I am new at non-linear editing. I just purchase final cut pro 4 hd along with dvd studio pro 4. I need help bad. I have already create my project in fcp but I am having trouble importing and burning it to a dvd in studio pro. I tried to burn it but when it finished I got a lot of warning messages saying things like "folder not found." I hope that I am making sense. Can someone help me please!

Thank you
Clint

I just captured 24p video at 30fps on accident. i finished
out the project and realized what i had done.

how bad is this??

thanks!

Tyler

no it does not work with dvd-r

This has been discussed in several different forums in the past, so you may want to do a search. It sets a flag that tells the replicator to apply Macrovision on the DVD's that are replicated from your DLT tapes.

I've never none that, so I'm uncertain of the consequences. I would suspect that you might have audio sync issues at the least.

So all of the editing in FCP went fine? It was just when you tried to get the project into DVD SP for burning a DVD that you had a problem? What were you trying to do in DVD SP? Did you use menus, transitions, etc? Or were you just testing it out trying to burn your FCP movie?

That's pretty cheap for a useful plugin.

For those who don't want to spend money though, you could place the same clip on another video track, offset it by pixel (or two), and crop it down to 1 pixel dimensions.

Could work :)

cheers,
Peter

How did you export your final edited project for DVDSP? Did you use Compressor? Did you export a reference movie, did you export a quicktime movie?

FPC 4.5
Comp 1.21
upon export to Commpressor, it runs in FPC 4.5
not indepently as with FCP4.
this renders FCP 4.5 useless.
Is this a known bug?

Hi all

Quick question, is it possible to get quicktime to play full-screen on an external monitor ie: connected to dvi output on side of powerbook.

I put the window onto the external monitor and then select full screen from the quicktime menu. I would expect it to full screen onto the monitor it's on but no, it full screens on the powerbook's own lcd screen.

Is there a way to do this?

thanks
Donie

i don't quite get your post....compressor isn't an NLE so how does it render FCP useless?

I have a G5 Dual 2.0 with the stock 160 Gb HD. I just purchased a Seagate 200 Gb SATA HD (internal) and a Vantec Nexstar case with a western Digital 200 Gb IDe HD. I plan on using Carbon Copy cloner to clone the two internal drives to the external. My question is how do i use the Seagate as a media drive ? Do i install panther and make this drive bootable. All i want this drive for is media (final cut pro/express, pictures, music etc) What is the best way to set this drive up ? Do i install a copy of final cut on this drive or do i just store only media files ?

I believe most professional monitors support both PAL and NTSC,
but I could be wrong in that. Keep in mind that if you are using
a camera to output to this monitor you will need a PAL camera
in this case (or set your project properties to NTSC).

A burner inside a computer coupled with an authoring application
like DVD Studio Pro can make both NTSC and PAL DVD's.

The problems are in getting the footage in a computer (ie, an
NTSC camera will not process a PAL tape, but it sounds like you
already did this phase) and getting it out to a monitor. Other
than that, basically all video processing applications on a
computer can handle both formats.

I wouldn't go as far as to combine gamma correction with film look.
Gamma correction is another way to brighten or darken an image.

I cannot really answer your question as to why it would like better,
perhaps the darker tones supress some problems or the filter
does some other things as well, who knows.

It sounds like your DVD is actually NOT 16:9. The first clue might
be your export from Final Cut. Is your footage in final cut in true
16:9 or do you want to crop it to 16:9 on output (ie, the footage
was shot in 4:3)? Is your FCP project 16:9? When you output to
mpeg2 you should be able to indicate the footage is 16:9 to let
DVDSP know.

Then in DVDSP the project and everything else should be in 16:9
as well. Not 4:3 letterbox or Pan & Scan.

I don't have a Mac so I cannot tell you the exact workflow. But
your problem sounds like the "this is 16:9 footage flag" is NOT
enabled on the DVD.

kyle,
I've had a GL1 for a few years, and recently bought an xl2. I want to use both cameras together, and use 16:9. I never realized that the GL1 has some sort of 16:9 (also never tried it). Would the two work togather?
Thanks
Bruce yarock

I think that information is incorrect guys. A DVD does not have
macrovision (as does a video tape) since this is an ANALOG
protection scheme. Macrovision is just a bit being set in the
video stream (DVD rippers can remove that bit as well) which
instructs the DVD player to emit a macrovision signal.

The *ONLY* thing we cannot do (unless you have an authoring
burning with authoring media) is CSS encryption (due to different
sector sizes and encryption keys you need). Macrovision and
region encoding should be a non issue, as long as your authoring
application SUPPORTS this!

However, in the case of Macrovision I'm pretty sure you will need
to pay for a license to use it in your discs.

Why not enable the bit and see if you can record your DVD
playing back through a namebrand (some cheaper brands do
NOT output Macrovision, at least here in Europe) DVD player
onto a VCR? With Macrovision this should not be possible (it
will record, but only garbage).

Now it might've been that DVD Studio Pro supports this bit ONLY
when exporting to DLT (ie, to make sure you pay your rights),
that could be (and I don't know). But in theory it should be very
easy to include Macrovision and/or region encoding on your own
DVD's (licensing issues aside), technically. They are both a set of
bits, nothing more.

That depends on what the source was. If you can try to do an
inverse telecine (IVTC) to interpret the footage as 24p (there
should be some setting/template for that probably).

bump!

Yes, if you export to Compressor directly from FCP, then FCP is tied up while compressor does it's thing.

That's why I export to a quicktime file (NTSC settings) then import that file into Compressor outside of FCP. FCP is still free for editing.

Just initialize it as one partiton. No need to make it bootable.
Leave FCP where it is on the boot drive.

Then in FCP, set your scratch disk to be the new internal disk.

In Premiere Pro, there was a 'scene detect' feature where it would detect everytime the pause/record button was pressed. It would then seperate the files each time it was pressed...

Select a clip, go to Mark->DV Start/Stop Detect. This will insert a marker for each start/stop. You can turn these into subclips with Modify->Make Subclip.

Could someone please tell me how one goes about zooming in on a digital still photo in FCP?

Do a search, this has been discussed many times. You may find the tutorials here (http://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials.html) helpful.

FCP needs to remain in the default install location. It will cause issues in the future if you move the application.

Did you call Apple?

If I'm not mistaken, could'nt you use export to compressor FPC 3
and still have function of FCP?

I thought that Soundtrack only worked with loops? Can you use the program to generate individual notes of midi data or do midi sequencing with it (or similar)? If you can't, it's not really professional, unless your really just a D.J. type available loop/fx mixer, as opposed to someone actually trying to "score" a movie. I wouldn't be able to come up with my own melodies or anything.

So far I can't find features in Soundtrack capable of what I'm talking about. Do you know if you can do this?

I think that Logic Express would be the next step up in this direction http://www.apple.com/logicexpress, followed by Logic Pro http://www.apple.com/logic

In the Display preferences set up the 2 displays in mirror mode. This is the only way I've gotten this to work. You might get it to work by making the external display the "master" display as well...

Hi Mark

I meant to post this earlier but there is a way in quicktime.

Select Movie | Present Movie...

This dialog shows the layout of your external monitors and lets you choose the one to play to. You can also select to go full screen or whatever on it.

It's pretty cool and is exactly what I was looking for. Note that I'm using Quicktime player 6.5.2 in case it matters.

One another note, the Apple DVD player can do this as well as I found out this evening. I have version 4.0 of it in case that matters. Normally when you select full screen it will go to primary monitor but if you drag the DVD viewer window to the external monitor and then select full screen it will do it on that monitor.

This is how it should have worked in Quicktime but anyway. Hope it helps some of you...

Donie

Sorry. Don't know. (Was compressor available with FCP3?)

I just recently heard that they have out DVD players with a RGB output that does upscaling to 1080i and 720p. Would it make sense to take a feature shot on 24p, transfer it to DVD and then play it out from these players back into FCP HD for up-scaling? Or is this a lame idea and why?

Thanks!

Why would you want to do it? Just use one of those upscaling hardware DVD players or any popular DVD software for upscaling when you would like to play it back.

If you want to upscale it to mix it with HD-footage then I'm sure you can do that digatally in the computer.

I think I might have messed myself up on my first short film in FCP 3, hopefully someone can tell me if I did or not. I shot with the dvx100(not A), but I'm editing with FCP 3. I captured the footage, but when I did, I'm pretty sure I captured at 23.98 instead of 29.97, which is what I think you're supposed to do with FCP 3 since it doesn't have a 24p timeline capability. I've edited my whole project already (about 15 min. long). The sequence is a 29.97 sequence, but my clips are 23.98. Did I actually mess up? If I did, what do I need to do? Will I have to recapture my footage and start over, or can I somehow change the footage rate to 29.97 within FCP 3 (if I need to)? Is there any way I can salvage all of the work I've already done?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks
Nathan

This is not an expert comment since I have no experience on your problem.. but, if it looks and sound right, it probably is. if it didn't you would have discovered that before right?

Again, wait for somebody with the same set-up to be sure!!

You may want to check out this thread at DVXuser:

http://www.dvxuser.com/cgi-bin/DVX2/YaBB.pl?board=Events;action=display;num=1097870435

Some great results with a program called PhotoZoom Pro.

How did you capture it? IF you did a straight capture and did no conversion with CT, then your footage should be 29.97. If you open the bin and scroll down to the right, there is a column for frame rate...look as see. You can also Control-Click on the clip and select Item Properties and see what the frame rate it.

If you did a straight capture (FCP can't remove the pulldown during capture, that option came out in Version 4) then your media is all 29.97. If is all was 23.98 and you dropped it in the 29.97 timeline, it would have had a red bar and needed rendering in order to play properly.

This started today.
Have 291 GB avalible on striped Medea Raid.
Have 3.5GB to capture.
All of a sudden message say 'insuffient disc space remaning in capture scratch.'
WTF?
I'm lost as to what to do next.

Had the Mac G4 dual 1.25 ( the system we are talking about) looked over and checked out by a Mac guru yesterday.
All he ended up doing was disabling a bunch of fonts in
Fontbook.
So now the fonts are back in my generator.
Are the 2 in any way connected?

How do I import the .m4a music files from my .mac account into Final Cut Pro without it cutting out every 5 seconds. I read that I have to convert it to an .aif file, but can I do that without QuickTime Pro?

Any other suggestions?

Compression on DVD will eliminate any advantage. Best route currently would be a hardware scaler such as a Snell & Wilcox. FCP is bad, AE ok, Shake a bit better still. I'm working on a super-scaler for Mac users as a stand alone video aware application that promises to do great things, but is a long way off being usuable by me, never mind anyone else!!

Graeme

I've been working on a DVDSP 3 project that has about 20 movies in it and 5 or 6 menus. It's our demo reel. We work with beta sp and capture footage through an AJA IO as Uncompressed 10 bit. we edit in FCP HD. I'm actually new to DVDSP but have picked it up pretty quickly in the last week.

The problem we are having is that some of the movies play back properly de-interlaced on a TV but others have bands of interlaced and de-interlaced sections when there is fast movement or horizontal pans.

I've checked the properties of all the clips in QT pro and all are 720x486 Uncompressed 10 bit 422. I can't figure out why some play back fine while otheres don't.

My encoding settings are set to 2 pass VBR with low at 4 and high at 7mbps. I'm not at work right now so I can't remember the setting but it's called something like motion mapping or movement mapping but I have it set to Best. Field order starts with lower field as do our FCP sequnces.

My boss e-mailed me tonight saying that one of the problem clips when encoded in iDVD looked fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

I've heard that you can do this directly with QT, but I've never figured out how so I do this from iTunes.

Make sure your Importing ("ripping") preferences are set to AIFF. Select the files from the iTunes library that you want to convert and choose the menu item Advanced->Convert to AIFF. iTunes will do the conversion, change the suffix to .aif and leave the results in the library.

Go to FCP and Import the converted files.

Mike.

I only have FCP 3.x but it CAME with a Quicktime Pro code... I'd say copy the file to your desktop, convert it with Quicktime to AIFF and then put it in a folder with your project. A way around this, if you don't have Quicktime Pro or Toast, is to put it into iTunes and burn an audio CD with that as a track. Boom, AIFF conversion.

What do you mean "all of a sudden"? Was it capturing and just stopped in the middle? Can you find what it DID capture? Are you sure you have your scratch disk set to the array?

Moving fonts shouldn't be a problem. Have you trashed the FCP Preferences?

I suspect 7mbps is too high. I rarely go over 5mbps.

Jeff,

7 mbps may be too high but do you suspect it is the cause of my problem? If so, why would it effect some clpis and not others?

It would be the first place to start looking. iDVD uses lower bit rates by default.