Disabling Saving of Quicktime Movies In Compressor

I'm creating a bunch of Quicktime Movies in compressor and I want to disable the save as option that the end user can see. (The drop down box on the lower right). I know I can do it through HTML by setting kioskmode to true, but that seems like an extra step.
Cleaner had this function years ago - why can't I find it in Compressor?
How can I make Compressor my one stop shop to compress as a H264 quicktime file, with fast start - compressed header, flatten for playback on all computers, and disable the end-users ability to save my quicktime file through the drop down in the player.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Doug

iWeb doesn't write the html page code until the file is published and you would have to hand edit those files to add some code.
iWeb also uses special javascript to load QuickTime browser plug-in (and your file) and you would need to edit them to add.
The "old" html method is to add the kioskmode="true" tags and that same code can be added to the .js file made by iWeb. It stops "Pro" users from having the "Save" menu.
Since I don't have iWeb on my Mac mini, and I haven't looked very hard at the javascript code made by it, I don't have your answer.
iWeb 2 does include a QuickTime Inspector that can set some parameters but I don't know its options.

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This may be a Quicktime Forum question, but it might also be an iWeb question, I'm not sure. It's been a few years, but in the past I've embedded Quicktime files in web pages and used HTML to disable saving. **Q: can you do in a page made with iWeb 08?** (I do realize you can't 100% stop people from saving clips, but making it more difficult is fine for the use I have planned). If this ISN'T possible, then I'll move over to the Quicktime area and see if you can still make clips that have this encoding (I think I used an application called 'Quicktime Helper', but that was OS9). Thanks in advance.

iWeb doesn't write the html page code until the file is published and you would have to hand edit those files to add some code.
iWeb also uses special javascript to load QuickTime browser plug-in (and your file) and you would need to edit them to add.
The "old" html method is to add the kioskmode="true" tags and that same code can be added to the .js file made by iWeb. It stops "Pro" users from having the "Save" menu.
Since I don't have iWeb on my Mac mini, and I haven't looked very hard at the javascript code made by it, I don't have your answer.
iWeb 2 does include a QuickTime Inspector that can set some parameters but I don't know its options.

Export QuickTime movie with Compressor running in background

I've rummaged through the forums many times to figure out the absolute fastest way to get an FCP sequence compressed for DVD Studio Pro while maintaining the best quality. I always seem to come up with:
Export QuickTime Movie (not self contained) --> Compressor (DVD best quality settings)
This seems to work fine. I am currently exporting sequences in HDV 1080i60 and they take an extremely long time to export into QT movies. Because of that, I am editing a sequence, waiting for it to export, then dropping it into Compressor. At this point, FCP is available for editing again while Compressor is working, so I repeat the process. However, when I export to QT from FCP while Compressor is still running in the background it seems to take much longer to export.
Here is my question:
*Am I doing anything wrong by allowing Compressor to work while I am trying to export QT movies from FCP to the same drive?*
Is FCP actually taking longer to export, or is that my imagination? Would it be faster if I only did one at a time, or should it take the same amount of time either way? Am I putting the data on my final movies at risk by doing these things at the same time?
Any help would be appreciated as this is a time sensitive project. I am working in both FCP 5 and 6 on two different computers. 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB.

Compressor takes a lot of system resources. It will slow the computer down in other tasks.
Because Compressor can run unattended, why not take advantage of that?
Do your regular work that needs you to be there and run the Compressor Batch overnight or at other times when the system is idle.
Compressor's default destination for its processed files is the same directory as the original -writing the files to a different drive might help, at least that way your media drive is not reading and writing at the same time.

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Hello,
I would like to move my FCP movie to a DVD. Will I get better quality using compressor, Quicktime or a QT conversion? I was at the Apple Store this morning, working with someone on this issue at a one to one session and he seemed a little uncertain. He recommended Compressor but then wasn't clear on how it worked.
According to him, I send the movie to compressor, drag the location (desktop in this case) twice, one for video one for Audio, to the upper box, then drag the desired setting (DVD Best Quality 90 Min) placing the Dolby audio on top of one location and the MPEG.2 (video) on the second location. Hit submit.
Five hours later two files were to appear on my desktop which I was to drag into IDVD. The two files that have appeared are a Dolby, and a QT MPEG.2, neither of which I can seem to drag or import into the iDVD program. Any suggestions?
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Susan

I was at the Apple Store this morning, working with someone on this issue at a one to one session and he seemed a little uncertain.
You should have asked for someone with Pro Video Apps certification, not just some kid off the sales floor -these folks definitely exist at Apple, in fact they have to according to Apple's own in house standards. Many folks here, including myself also have that certification.
You don't use Compressor to work with iDVD. Drop in the master file directly into it and the transcoding happens internally. David already covered how to make the master file, above.
According to him....
He showed you the procedure for creating Elementarty Streams for use in software like DVD Studio Pro, not iDVD.
What is the value of compressor then?
The ability to convert video and audio to any other codec that your computer has installed.
Compressor is complicated but it can also be easy. It is also easy to get it wrong.

Chapter markers lost from quicktime MOV in compressor

I searched on this topic and can't seem to find it specifically. Soo....
When we export from FCP through compressor to an m2v, chapter markers come through fine and appear in DVD SP just fine. However, an editor of mine exported to a quicktime MOV with the chapter markers. The file, when opened in quicktime, show the chapters there.
However. If I run the MOV through compressor using the same set ups, the chapter markers are striped from the resulting file.
I am wondering if there is something I am missing when I have to do this from an MOV with chapters.
OR
If there is some way to export or extract the chapter marker information in a way that DVD SP can import. The text track that is in Quicktime has a good deal of other information that DVD SP won't accept as a chapter marker file. Argh.
Can FCP export JUST the chapter marker text. I am obviously going to just go in and add the chapter markers to the track in DVD SP myself. But, as everyone knows doing this after compressing to M2V I will no longer be able to have those markers on the exact frame I want due to GOP.
So, I am asking this for the next time I have an MOV with chapters that I want to convert to mpeg2 and retain the markers for DVDSP.
Just so you know... yes. These markers where properly tagged as chapter markers. (obviously because quicktime shows them as such.)
Thanks guys. I know someone else has had to deal with this somewhere.

I must be losing it. I meant to post in this thread.
My chapters are clean. Pretty good at avoiding anything problematic. I even keep spaces out of my folder names because when I learned to use computers they weren't allowed. (only 128 characters too, if I remember correctly)
I have the previous versions of Final Cut Studio. The recent decline of DVD and the economy has eaten my departments budget to upgrade the OS to Leopard and to Studio 2 so FCP 5.1.4, etc.
Maybe this has been fixed in the upgrade?
My editor has upgraded. So, this would be entirely a moot issue if Apple saw fit to make their projects backwards compatible. (Don't get me started on that) I guess I will have to stay on top of my contract editors and sending me an XML so I can work in their projects. Or giving me the M2V's I ask for already rendered.
Until we can upgrade around here.
thanks for the help tho.

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How do I prepare a FCP Quicktime movie for iDVD?

Hi out there, can someone please explaine in detail what I have to do to a FCP Quicktime movie to prepare it for iDVD. Its 12 minutes long and 4.8GB. I tried putting it as is into iDVD and burning a DVD and the quality was bad. Do I have to put it through Compressor? Or, should I make a different kind of Quicktime movie?

Compressor is a program and you want to use it to convert your movie into an mpeg file and an ac3 file. 2 files to drop into your DVD program. Now, I haven't used iDVD so i don't know what it's asking for but. DVDSP is really easy to use if you just wan tto make a DVD without a menu. this requires an mpeg2 file and ac3. this you can make in compressor. in FCP have your timeline with your sequence in it active. FILE>EXPORT>USING COMPRESSOR. in compressor you can use the DVD 90 minute setting to make these two files. you have to check the manual cause it's different on how to do this with diff versions.
once you have your files drop them in DVD SP asset box then drag them in the timeline. delete the menue blue box right click the green track box, select 'first play' build/burn button at the top and you're on your way.
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Hi,
I'm having an odd problem I've never had in nine years of editing video on Macs.
I recently got a new MacBook. I had been using an iBook G3, which was running Final Cut Pro 5.
I have Final Cut Express on my new MacBook.
Now I understand Express won't open Pro projects. But projects which I had saved as Quicktime Movies will not display properly on the MacBook either. When I view the clips, they have a grey grid and grey bar superimposed over them.
When I drag these clips in Express or iDVD this gray bar / grid pattern remains.
Even unaltered Quicktime clips which I had uploaded using Final Cut Pro are displayed in this manner.
Is this a sign I need a more sophisticated version of Quicktime, or do I need to upgrade to the latest Intel version of Final Cut Pro? Or is it some other problem?
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Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
Calibrated HDV 1080i60,
Integer (Big Endian)
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Duration: 53:55
Channel Count: 2
Total Bit Rate: 26,538
Last Opened today at 9:06 PM
Quicktime will play these clips correctly, but Final Cut Express and iDVD 7.0.4 will not.
Yet the older versions of iDVD on my iBook -- 7.0 and 6.0.4 -- had no problem with these clips.
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About quicktime movies

this is more of a web design problem than anything else. i have 2 short films saved as quicktime movies on idvd. i burned the dvd and put it into my laptop (pc) which i use for web design. does anyone know how i can just get the 2 films from my mac to my pc so i can get them onto a webpage? i just dont know how to get them as 2 separate multimedia files.

You have two basic options: pull the video out of the burned DVD (that will take some PC software to extract the mpeg-2 file from the DVD), or secondly, go back to your Mac and capture the original video (lots of ways to do that, including the most straightforward that SDMacuser is suggesting).
Since you'll be wanting a small, compressed version of the video (I assume) for your Web site, it might be best to think through the variations of the second option. For example, if the video is in iMovie, you can Share/Export the video in several formats, including a nicely compressed version. To use this file on your PC, you'll either need Quicktime for the PC or a way to convert it to .avi or whatever format you want for uploading.
Physically though, the file can be transferred to the PC on any media (external HD, CD, flash drive, data DVD, etc) that's common to both because you want the data file rather than a playable DVD (it's a little hard to get to on the DVD and it's a compressed but still large file for the internet).
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Saving quicktime movies from internet

i used to be able to choose file,save as & whatever quicktime movie i had viewed & chose to save would end up in the proper place. now, i go through all the same steps & the movie/file gets saved but when i try & open i get an ALERT:
QuickTime cannot open the file: "01.mpeg"
it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048).
is there an easy way to save movies from the web anymore?

i didnt need it before. i think it all changed the last QT update i ran. HELP feature said to ckick down button on player, did that & yeah, it looks like it leads me to a purchasing link. thanks for your time. i guess all i can do is save as a bookmark & wait for it to load when i want it.

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Is there a way to disable saving (downloading) of a Quicktime file, with this (kioske mode?) encoded into the clip itself. I can't access the html of the web page in this case (using iWeb). It's been a few years since I've done this, I think there used to be something called 'Quicktime Helper' that did this with OS9, but I can't seem to find much recent information about doing this. (Note: I do know you can't 100% keep people from downloading a Quicktime clip if they really want to figure out how, I'm fine with making it more difficult with the uses I have in mind.) Thanks in advance.

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If you've set the cache to 100 MB's that all QuickTime will use.
You're going to have much bigger issues with such little free space on your drive. Why not buy a cheap external drive and move large folders like Music, Movies and Pictures to it.
iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie can all store their files on external drives.

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