DVD authoring after editing project with FCP X

FCP X has extremely limited DVD authoring options within it. Can't put more than one short movie on a disc, only two menu templates to choose from, etc. So my question is what do I use to author a DVD after editing projects with FCP X? I know I need to use Compressor to set chapter points, etc., but what do I use to build the DVD menu and burn the DVD? I certainly hope I am not limited to iDVD only, which is not really a pro application, and I gather that DVD Studio Pro is no longer being sold. Amazingly, I asked this question at a One-to-One session at an Apple Store and the guy there suggested Adobe Encore ... I was totally shocked! Does anyone have an answer to all this?

Encore is very good, but you have to buy PPro to get it, you could look on eBay for a copy of DVDSP. It does look like Apple will not be offering a Pro Level DVD authoring package anymore, it's a shame as DVDSP works very well still and they could have just offered it as a standalone.

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Hi Mac friends,
I once had FCExpress. Not any more.
I´ve all FCExpress projects and all the media stored on an external FW hard drive.
Can I open this projects now with FCP and save them as new FCP Projects in order to use and preserve this works?
If so, what´s the proper way to do it?
Thank you very much.
L.

You can open FCE projects with FCP. You will not be able to open the updated projects from FCP on FCE.
Just do a "Save As..." to make a copy.

Noob question... DVD authoring after FC Express

Hi. I'm not new to video, but I'm new to Final Cut Express. I bought it with a credit I had at a local Mac store, figuring I'd use it on my Mac (I use Premiere Pro on the Windows side of the house).
So my question:
I thought that Final Cut Express would have some sort of DVD Authoring, even if fairly light. But, it seems that it doesn't (my fault for not checking first, I suppose).
Anyway, how are you guys doing this? iDVD?
I see that I can put chapter markers that will work in DVD Studio, but I don't have that, and it appears that you can't buy it standalone, so that's out.
Does iDVD work with Final Cut Express movies (BTW - I'm on FCE 4)?
What other software is there for DVD authoring that works with Final Cut Express' output (print to tape and quicktime only?)
I'm hoping this wasn't a mistaken purchase. It was kind of free, but I could have gotten something else.
Thanks...

Yes, like above mentioned... put your chapter markers in and then export Quicktime (not conversion) and from the drop down menu select include chapter markers (or something like that) and your good to go!
Good luck on your DVD authorizing!!!

After Effects Project with MOV. (RLE) files keep freezing system

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Intell i7 processor
AMD FirePro V7900
32 GIG DDR5 RAM
After Effects CS6 runs perfectly smooth unless there are MOV.s with Animation Codec (RLE) present in a composition.
The project will open up, it will display what looks like a corrupted version of the MOV. file (files are not corrupted) in the comp.
I can generally navigate for about 30 seconds, then it completely freezes up. Eventualy it will automatically shut down After Effects, but my computer will continue to freeze up and eventually force resets itself.
I have emoved all 3rd party plugins, reinstalled Quicktime and AfterEffects and still the problem persists.
I updated my graphics card driver
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/fire/Pages/firepro_win8-64.aspx
Please Help! I work daily from home with projects like these and I'm completely stuck still. I'm kind freeking out, especially sense I just bought this new computer.
-JAY

I recommend contacting Adobe Technical Support and getting them to connect to your computer to troubleshoot:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact

Purging every frame whilst rendering After Effects project with Media Encoder?

SOOOOO.
I am rendering with ACCURATE anti-aliasing on Vector files.
This causes rendering to crash if I do not purge every frame.
IF
I want to render in background using Media Encoder,
CAN
I get IT to purge every frame also?
Does it follow the project settings?
Or is this a different preference in Media Encoder?
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Tris

> I never saw the point in multiprocessing either, why not just use all processors to do one frame at a time rather than splitting RAM and threads.
That is done, too. Different compositions benefit from different allocation of resources.
See this video for a demonstration of multithreading as well as Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing:
http://www.video2brain.com/en/videos-5355.htm
> Ditto Open GL rendering. why would you?
The OpenGL - Interactive mode is very useful. OpenGL - Always and using OpenGL to render for final output are seldom useful.

"not authorized" after editing and publishing

Hi,
I was reading a very usefull document - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-36366, and I wanted to edit something (it mentioned tCode for product instead for order), so I clicked on "edit", edited, checked "minor change" and clicked on "publish".
Next thing - I recieved error message that I'm not authorized to view this content, the document disappeared from my bookmarks and if I go directly to its URL which I had by luck - I get "not authorized" message again.
HELP

Hello Yulia,
don't panic.
I guess, the document went into the moderator queue again, since you re-published it (correctly). So no need to worry, it will be available, when a moderator has looked at it and gave it a thumbs-up again.
When you look at the people-tab of the space, this document is in (I hope, you know where is was *g*), you can see the moderator-list. You can mention them here (by @ and their name or by just copying their profile-url and pasting it, if you want a feedback, if the document is in their queue.
Regards,
Steffi.

CREATING "MASTER" PROJECT WITH PREMIERE ELEMENTS (PRE)

I am creating a new thread following up on earlier questions re Premiere Elements 8.0 (PRE).
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69:46
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9:12
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1976 Canoe Trip
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Troop 184 Family Camping 1974--2006
188
33:25
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Hey, those ain't "newbie" questions. The first one gets posted to the Forum Comments forum weekly. The second one, well I should have posted my normal detail, but got lazy - mea culpa, mea culpa.
1.) This ARTICLE should step you through the processes with the e-mails. If you have any questions, let us know. There are several places, where e-mail notification can be turned ON and OFF. Some are global, and some are specific to threads.*
2.) Ah, the ImgBurn site. The top 2/3 are all ads. Hey, it's great free software, so who can blame 'em? Scroll down to where the page has the various versions and what they addressed. There is a Download button there (well below those ads). That is what you want. Normally, I mention the scrolling way down page, but you caught me here.
Good luck,
Hunt
* Going back a few months, while trying to help another user on the Forum Comments forum, I got hit with a global change in my e-mail settings. I got about 1,000/day, for every forum that I participate in - think 1,000 x PS, PrPRo, Encore, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition, PrE and all of their sub-fora! Fortunately, it only took about 3 days for Adobe to get that fixed.

HELP: My Videohive After Effects project is rendering artifacts! AE CS6

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HP-HPE 510t
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I purchased a Videohive After Effects project with motion gfx and video, and it is rendering artifacts in two places.
I'm exporting Quicktime + animation, tried + PNG, and + photo jpeg but all with the same results.
I even contacted the author but he cannot explain why either. The interesting thing is, it renders beautifully without any artifacts in AE.
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Please help? i'm trying to export the highest quality for youtube and am going to H.264 the lossless version.
It looks correct in AE:
[URL=http://s10.photobucket.com/user/mystickid/media/ItisworkingcorrectlyinAE.png.html][IMG]http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/mystickid/ItisworkingcorrectlyinAE.png[/IMG][/URL]
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maybe ill try firefox.
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All my finished projects that are in the Library infected with the same symptoms and it happens only after I went into the problematic project.
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Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac10,1
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Processor Speed:          3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
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This recently happened to me. I am a novice, but it seemed like that project got corrupted some how.
I deleted it.
Went to time machine and picked it up again when I knew it was working ok.
I lost a few hours of work, but not the entire project.
Once I had the project back from time machine, it worked fine (but like I said, I lost a little bit of work).

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I am using Toast 11 to burn dvd's. With FCP10.1.3 I could go into the FCP shared folder grab the encoded .m2v file and drag it into Toast 11 and author dvd and burn. How can you do this with FCP 10.1.4?

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Dvd of non-broadcast standard size video movies possible with FCP & DVDSP4?

Hi all,
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The problem I was having before was that every time things were converted down to 720x480, all the video got blurry and I ran into problems with the square pixel vs non-square pixel issues that I never could figure out.
Will DVDSP let me somehow create an interface for playing my clips on a computer, but not force me into the ntsc/pal standard format? Or, even if it does force me into this format (I guess it would if I'm expecting to play it using Apple's DVD Player), is there a way I can ensure my video stays sharp? I need to be able to display small on-screen text (ie Finder windows, application pallets etc) in the screen captures clear enough to be easily read.
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Thanks Hal,
I'll give this all a try again. I've done four tutorials so far. Mainly to assist in training others that work with me on projects. The first one, I did as you suggested because I was able to size things down to fit within our ntsc format here in the USA. But the last three used apps that didn't permit sizing their main windows and pallets down to these small sizes, plus there were times where I needed to show close up of data entry fields.
In any case, the next time I do this, I'll be using FCP and not FCE, thus I hope this will solve some of the export format issues. FCE really only works with miniDV formats (and HD video). Although I can export to a QT conversion file and keep everything looking great, I'll loose all my chapter markers doing this and the video will go through another conversion when I process it for standard dvd playback.
I'm hoping FCP will provide me an option for exporting the project in a format that'll work with iDVD/DVDSP that'll maintain the clarity of the original clips generated via SPX.
Thanks for your help. What I didn't want to do was spend weeks trying to do something in FCP/DVDSP that couldn't be done.
BTW, if you look at the sample tutorials for FC Studio on Apple's web site,
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/
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They also say that this tutorial is available on the dvd that comes with the suite, so somehow they've gotten all of this to work (but aren't telling us how). I've been looking and asking questions for over six months and can't find ANYONE doing this type of work, that'll say how this type of stuff is done.
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working on an idvd project with both a video section and photos in a few photo galleries. its' a slightly more complex project, but still only 2gb on a 4gb disc. After we burn (with all dvd-rom contents checked, and advance>edit dvd-rom contents shows photo files all there) the finished disc doesn't have files available in the dvd-romcontents! its' driving us mad as simpler projects are burning properly, with both photo and video files available. Could there be some kind of conflict occurring? does anyone have any ideas?!
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Steve,
It sounds like Windows Movie Maker Live was used. The regular WMM will Export to DV-AVI Type I, which will Import into PrPro much better.
I would recommend converting the WMA/WMV to DV-AVI, and Importing that into a DV NTSC (if you are in NTSC-land) Project.
Then, you would use Encore to do the DVD authoring. There are several ways to get the material on your Sequence into Encore. ADL (Adobe Dynamic Link) is probably the easiest way to do this.
What is your exact workflow from PrPro, into Encore?
What brand of blank media are you burning the DVD to?
This ARTICLE will give you some tips.
Good luck, and let us know a bit more,
Hunt
PS - Multiplexing is the function of combining the Audio and the Video into one file. There are usually two choices, "None" and then often "DVD." For None, you will get two separate files - one for the Audio and one for the Video. With "DVD" you should get a muxed (combined) file. Actually, the separate Audio and Video is the preferred way, if one is doing an Export from PrPro, and then an Import to Encore. One would Import the Video into Encore as a Timeline, and the Audio as an Asset. In Encore, just drag the Audio file from the Project Panel to the appropriate Timeline, where it will snap into place.

FCP 5 has problems with how I did projects under FCP 4.

For the most part, I've been very happy with FCP 5, but it's very buggy in a couple of respects that pertain to how I create my projects. Now, I'm getting an error that is preventing me from finishing a project, so I don't have to tell you how critical my issue is, nor do I have to emphasize how quickly I need an answer.
To begin with, I will explain how I did my projects under FCP 4. I would begin by capturing all the raw footage in OfflineRT with my Power Mac G5 dual 2 GHz, then copy the project file and all media files to their respective locations on my 12-inch PowerBook G4, for portability. I would complete the offline edit on the PowerBook, then create an online project file, which I would then transfer back to the Power Mac. I would recapture footage in the new project, everything would fall into place, and all was well.
Since "upgrading" to FCP 5, this method doesn't seem to work anymore. The first sign of a problem was when I created the online project file on my first FCP 5 project. After an attempt to re-capture the footage on the Power Mac, I got an error message that the video was in an incorrect format, or something like that (unfortunately, this was some time ago, so I don't remember the exact phrasing of the error message). I was able to resolve the issue by unchecking the box in the media manager to delete unused media from duplicated items. This forced FCP to create an online file that captured every frame of my original raw footage, not just the parts that were used in the online edit. It took up more space, but at least I could get the project done.
Now, I'm getting more strange behavior, and it's preventing me from completing my latest project, even though I'm following the same steps I did on my previous project. The first thing I noticed this time was when I first tried building the online project file using Media Manager, it took a VERY long time to build the list of used media - something on the order of 15-20 minutes, when before it only took seconds for similar projects. Then, I got the following error message once the new online project had been created:
"Reconnect Media Failed: An unknown error occurred while trying to reconnect C-2 to the new offline file." This error kept occurring multiple times when I clicked continue until I finally checked the box next to it asking to ignore these reporting errors.
C-2 is one of the master clips for my project.
Undaunted, I proceeded to see if moving the new online project file to the Power Mac and re-capturing the footage in NTSC DV would work. Curiously, the Power Mac needed to capture C-2 twice. Although the length of the clip is only 45 minutes or so, FCP needed to capture 90 minutes. Unfortunately, after capturing, I got the same error message as before, but with different phrasing:
"Reconnect Media Failed - An unknown error occurred while trying to reconnect C-2 to the newly captured media. Try recapturing this clip to resolve the problem."
Recapturing the clip doesn't solve the problem. I keep getting the same errror message. Since this clip is one of my master clips, I simply cannot complete the project unless I can capture this clip somehow and have it reattach to the offline files.
The only thing I can think of, since I've been making projects this way since FCP 3 with no issues, is that it has something to do with FCP 5's new multiclip function. I have been using it extensively, and I suspect the error I received the first time was because every clip was linked to others through multiclips, and some shifting of in or out points may have occurred, which broke this link. Forcing FCP to capture all raw footage in its entirety resolved that issue the first time, but not this time.
Would someone PLEASE tell me ASAP how to fix this? How can I complete my project in online, DV-NTSC quality? Is there a possibility I can recapture the files in my offline project in DV quality, perhaps?
How can I prevent this from happening in the future? As I said, this never happened before I upgraded to FCP 5, and if this is the price I have to pay to have multiclip editing, I don't know if it's worth it. Maybe I should get a refund.

Finally found the answer myself. My camcorder glitched during the offline capture session, and it didn't recreate the glitch during the online capture, so the frame counts were different.

DVD authoring after editing project with FCP X

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