When you’re finished with your edit, you almost always will want a very high quality standalone movie exported.
This way, now or anytime in the future, you can:
- encode this movie to x264, H264, FLV or WMV (or any other format) with DV Kitchen
- drag it into DVD Studio Pro or iDVD to author an SD DVD
- import it into Encore or Toast to author a Blu-Ray DVD
- take it on a Firewire drive to a dub house to transfer to a broadcast format for cable/satellite, or for a film festival
- or any other conceivable use.
You can copy the exported movie to a cheap terabyte …
We’ve always had good luck with Apple brand blanks. The charts below, from http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm, rate blank DVDs:
1ST CLASS MEDIA - EXCELLENT DISCS:
Almost flawless burns with 95-100% reliable results. These …
When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop.
But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while you work is not telling the truth.
Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched on plasma or LCD TVs, projectors, or older CRT TVs - but they also might be watching the DVD on …
When Flash first incorporated video in version 6, they chose the “Spark” Sorenson 3 codec. A good choice, that was the best encoding quality at that time. In the following years, several companies developed encoding algorithms that were clearly higher quality.
Flash 8 then added the On2 VP6 codec, which again delivered higher quality at lower bandwidth.
Because of so many viewers had the Flash plugin, a couple years ago web video encoders found they could encode video into Flash rather than the triplicate of the past (Windows Media, Real, Quicktime).
But with the release of the H.264 standard there was still one …
This answer from Frank Datzer at Allied Vaughn:
DVD duplication is done by using towers of burners to duplicate large amounts of DVDs at a time. This produces exact copies or DVD-Rs of your original. Replication actually uses a glass master to “stamp” new DVDs. This method dramatically lowers the price per unit at high volumes — 1000 DVD will run about $1.25 each from a DVD-R master.
This includes all glass mastering fees and 5 color silk screening on the disc (5th color is a white background or “flood” coat.
DVD duplication machines with ink-jet printers …
Some of you may be wondering what we’ve been up to lately. Well, we have many top-secret projects cooking up in our lab, buried deep within the Hollywood hills (yes, we’ve taken over Dr. Evil’s lair after his retirement).
One thing is that we’ve collaborated with the great Stephen Schleicher on the world’s finest After Effects hands-on course. Final Cut Pro editors have delved into LiveType, then Motion, but many are finding they are still seeking an industrial-strength motion graphics and compositing environment. There are many great reasons After Effects continues to be the …
If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing.
Why?
First, many editing programs show you a low quality “proxy” of your timeline, so you can’t judge color correction, brightness, saturation, contrast, how titles or graphics will look, or any other aspect of the picture accurately.
Can I just enable a second computer monitor to show video and that will work?
With some editing programs, you can enable a second monitor to show a …
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 4, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the next version of Adobe® Production Studio, the integrated video and audio post-production tool set that is part of the Creative Suite family, will be available for both the Macintosh and Windows® platforms. Film, video and web professionals currently using Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® on the Mac will soon be able to harness the power of completely new Macintosh releases of Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Encore® DVD and Adobe Soundbooth™ — all
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The Library of Congress’s Copyright Office on Wednesday granted an exemption to film professors, allowing them to break the copy-protection codes on DVDs in order to create compilations of movie clips for their classes. Although such compilations are permitted under "fair use" interpretation of the copyright law, breaking the CSS security code is not. Studios had argued that the professors could use VHS tapes of the same films, but the professors countered that such tapes are often not available and those that are lack the quality of the DVDs. The ruling — along with others dealing with copyright law handed …
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The first HD-DVD titles are slated to go on sale Tuesday and, contrary to speculation, Toshiba players have arrived at Best Buy and should be on sale in at least some of the chain’s locations.
Sources say players were shipped out beginning Sunday and are scheduled to go on sale at all Best Buy stores and select Sears, Wal-Mart, Costco and Tweeters locations by week’s end. Software also will be available at those retailers.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios Home Entertainment is rushing recent box office disappointment "Serenity" to stores so it will join the …
There have been a lot of questions from people who are unhappy with how their DVD video discs are working when played on computers and/or DVD players.
Here is a short list of differences:
- Buttons rollovers do not work the same depending on what WinXP DVD player application is being used, or in Apple DVD Player
- TVs show cropped action safe area, computers show the whole picture
- MPEG2 encoding that looks fine on a TV often looks bad on a computer… or vice versa sometimes!
- DVD players play
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FFmpeg is a cross-platform, open source audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ ffmpegX is the OS X version.
It seems more and more common that editors are being asked to use content from a DVD- perhaps the client has provided you with last years annual report DVD… and wants you to redit it. (Remember, ripping off copyrighted content is a Federal offense with imprisonment and large fines possible!)
You can use MacTheRipper or OSEx to get the content from a DVD on your hard drive (OS X only)
MPEG Streamclip is an application that converts MPEG files (including transport streams) into muxed, demuxed, QuickTime, AVI and DV files. http://www.squared5.com/
For editing from a regular …
Think about this:
More and more people are buying HD TVs. HD DVD standards are still settling. Walk into a Blockbuster or check out NetFlix, and you’ll find all DVDs are SD (Standard Definition) except for just a couple exceptions.
However, after the next year or two, NO ONE is going to want to rent or buy a low resolution, SD DVD.
Once someone wins the HD DVD format wars, major movie studios are going to have to totally scramble to re-release their entire catalog on HD DVD.
There’s no way current DVD authoring businesses can handle the workload. They’ll be working 24 hour …
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