From: Dana Plays (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 19:19:06 PDT
Gene,
You only need to export a Quicktime Movie from Final
Cut Pro. The compression will done by your DVD
software, iDVD or DVD Studio Pro, when you go to
import it. If the file is too big at this stage, the
software will ask you if you want to reduce the
quality by adding more compression to make it fit.
You also can use single sided, or double sided DVDs to
compensate for larger movies. The 4.7 Gigs of the
single sided does not equate to the cmpressed movie
that will be made when importing it. Your quicktime
movie will be reduced probablly almost in half, once
it is compressed.
The interesting thing about Final Cut and DVDs is that
you can easily put chapter markers on your movies in
your timeline that will be read by the DVD software
and will function as scene selections.This gives the
user the ability to navigate within your film - or
select different films, or play all. Even iDVD reads
this.
What kind of DVD software are you using? Are you
creating masters for an outsourced DVD - or doing the
authoring yourself?
Dana
--- gyoungblood <email suppressed> wrote:
> Thanks for trying, Scott. Good to hear from you. Big
> News: I'm retired as of fall. After 37 years of
> teaching, I never go back. An enormous weight has
> been lifted. Now I can really get to work. I got a
> substantial grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation
> which I'm using to pay salaries of two full-time
> assistants. We're working on three books and a
> number of other projects. They work five days, I
> work 24/7...it's a real high.
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> All best,
> gene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Rankin
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Final Cut Pro Question
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> Gene;
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> Oh well, the link I sent you may not be what you
> were looking for after all- I just read through it
> quickly.... I seem to have jumped the gun.
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> Anyway- hope you are well.
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> On Jul 20, 2007, at 11:04 AM, gyoungblood wrote:
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> This is a question for the pros out there who
> use Final Cut. We want to export a file from Final
> Cut to a DVD, but it appears that Final Cut cannot
> tell us exactly how much compression will be
> necessary. We need Final Cut to tell us the exact
> file size so we can be certain it will fit on the
> DVD. We've had to re-export several times. Final Cut
> would abort because the compression level we set
> would not fit on the disc. We had to guess. That's
> not reasonable. Surely Final Cut can tell us how big
> a file will be after compression so that we know it
> will fit on the disc without guessing and doing it
> over and over. I say "we" because my assistants are
> doing this for me. I know nothing about Final Cut.
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> Thanks for your help...
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> Gene Youngblood
> 28 Sunrise Road
> Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 USA
> vox/fax: +1.505.424.8708
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