Final cut pro tutorial dvd - recommendations

Hi,
I am looking for some advice, i would like to get final cut pro tutorial on dvd, aimed at an absolute beginner , i would appreciate any recommendations.
thanks in adviance

My first course of action is to buy the longest (most hours) DVD tutorial sets I can. Then I generally go back and buy one or more additional sets. Why? B/c programs like FCP are so complex that there are many different ways to do the same thing. The more time I spend watching the tutorials, the less time I waste in the long run trying to figure out how to do such and such a thing.

Similar Messages

  • Final cut pro x dvd menu with personal backgrounds and music?

    is it possible to create with Final cut pro x dvd menu with personal backgrounds and music?

    THANKS Tom!  I miss my NERO... ;-)  ... At least personal background... Can you burn the DVD then directly from final cut or do I need another program to burn...? Cheers...

  • Final cut pro x/DVD studio pro

    A need an advice, I been using Final cut pro to edit my professional wedding videos and DVD studio pro to burn and make menus, can anyone recommend me another professional software to to create menus and burn DVD, my mac has an dvd drive built in, if I buy an external DVD burner drive, would I get better quality (on standard DVD's)

    I don't know why you want to change because Studio Pro is about the best software available.
    An external burner will have no effect on the quality of the DVDs.
    If you burn large numbers of DVDs an external burner might save wear and tear on your built in one.

  • Propper Compressions: from Final Cut Pro to DVD Studio Pro?

    Ok, so i have a project on Final Cut Pro, what are the right compressions that i would need to do to get my project to DVD Studio Pro?

    First take a long look at the manual and the tutorial.
    Then elect the preset in Compressor that fit to the total length of your movie. Less than 90 minutes = 90 minute preset for video. Whatever yours is.
    Then encode audio in compressor to Dolby 2.
    Best to do the DVD SP tutorial. Your question is basic.
    good luck

  • Why does final cut pro x dvd burn take so much time?

    I have been trying to nurn a DVD and upload to YOUTUBE with Final Cut Pro X .......I have done this with ease many times before but now a 6 minute video is taking 3 hours to load fpr a DVD burn and ove 2 hours for YOUTUBE upload..
    I have the energy saver off on ,y imac, and my internet is very high speed.....Help!  Thanks

    Looks as though nobody has any ideas and as you have not given any details of your Mac or FCP X workflow it's not surprising.
    For a start, without knowing any details, you could try trashing the preferences with
    http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

  • Exporting from Final Cut Pro for DVD Studio Pro

    In the recent DVDs I've made, the quality seems lower than it has before. I don't think I've changed anything, but I was wondering what is the best format to export a clip from Final Cut Pro and the best way to encode those clips in DVD Studio Pro. Thanks for all your help!
    Erin

    The best and only format is mpeg2/m2v.
    The encoding rate for video is based on the length of the sequence in h/m/s.
    They should not be encoded in DVDSP, but exported as a self contained with current settings, no recompression and dropped into Compressor.
    Based on length and the type of footage, elect a preset for video and elect Dolby 2 for audio

  • DVB-C recorded DVDs to Final Cut Pro to DVD Studio Pro and Flash - how?

    As a TV journalist I am recording my works with my DVB-C Receiver and a DVD-Harddisc-Recorder from LG. The movies are stored on the harddisc and I burn them to DVDs in order to work with the files on my computer. What progrograms do I have to use in order to get file out of the DVD-vobs, that Final Cut Pro can read an work with. DVB-C is MPEG-encoded, right? But I don’t want to loose quality and don’t want to encode the material several times? In Final Cut I want to get rid of commerials and cut severel movies together that were broadcasted on several days. After that I want to get two differt files: 1. A flash movie form my website and 2. A file form my archive. With those files I want to complile DVDs with DVD Studio Pro for my customers later. Can anyone please give me a good and professional workflow to solve this common problem? Thanks a lot.

    What progrograms do I have to use in order to get file out of the DVD-vobs, that Final Cut Pro can read an work with
    MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
    -DH

  • IMovie to iDVD or Final Cut Pro to DVD studio pro "Better output"

    I recorded some family videos onto a computer with a WinTV pci board.
    Converted the MPEG2 to DV/DVCPro NTSC on my Mac with MPEG stremeclip.
    Used quicktime to divide the tapes/clips where we had switched recordings.
    Now i was going to use final cut pro but i am starting to like imovie 09.
    I want to take the clips and add simple fades mostly cross dissolve fade to black and just nothing something not noticeable. Then once I have combined the events reasonably. I want to put them onto DVD.
    Say our christmas videos
    One DVD with each year christmas event.
    And one for someone's birthdays through the years.
    If you need me to elaborate ill try harder.
    So should I use Final Cut Pro then have DVD studio make the DVDs Or iMovie 09 and iDVD 09. Which would have the best looking output.
    Oh by the way how can i remove the static feedback from the recordings I don't care which application i need tell me which one.
    If someone needs an example of the main sound i don't want ill post one.
    Note: I will be posting this in the Final Cut Pro forms as well.

    Since you have both, you should run both and see if you see a difference.
    I would expect that a $1,400 product would outperform a $20 product (= 1/4 of iLife).
    But the question is, How much better? and is it worth the extra effort to you? Only you can decide that.
    Another option for you to consider is you can edit in iMovie and export your project to Final Cut Pro in XML. Might be the best of both worlds.
    Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

  • Final Cut Pro 5 dvd writing help!!!!

    Hello, I'm new to Final Cut Pro
    I've finished my project, I now need to write it to a dvd as I need to present it at University.
    I can't figure out how to write it to a dvd so that it works in my dvd player.
    Please help.

    #3 output lossless DV
    Shane's Stock Answer #3:
    To export your DV project so there is no loss in quality, simply go to the File Menu and select EXPORT>QUICKTIME MOVIE. Not Quicktime Conversion, fot this will compress the footage. Make sure the settings match your timeline settings, make it self contained and you are set.
    Open iDVD. Create a nifty menu. Import the video. Burn the disk.
    "There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here!"

  • Video quality bad when compresed from final cut pro to dvd studio pro. HELP

    Hello,
    I have a dvd project im working on and first i tried the video that i captured from final cut to just use in dvd studio pro but that didnt work. then i used the compressor and used the 60min high quality video and that looks even worse. what do u suggest i do?

    You must get to know what these settings do to be able to use Compressor. Try using a 10 second test of your video file and encoded at different settings to get a feel for how compression works.
    Min 4 and peak at 7, a difference of 3 between min and peak is a good start at CBR, but you must test.
    Just like using a video camera, if you use the same exposure setting all the time, most of your pictures will be unuseable, either too dark or too light.

  • Final Cut Pro and dvd burning....

    in order to burn a fcp project that is 95 minutes long on dvd (the burner software i have is Toaster) what is the best settings for me to use, on Final Cut and the burner in order to get the best image?
    thanks very much ~
    Kyle

    I am deeply unqualified to answer your question except that I too am new to FCP and have had to face this issue -and have been hleped by this forum.
    In my first attempts to burn a 90 min movie to disc I was thwarted by the fact that the compressed movie took up too much space - a fact that only seems to be revealed at the very end of the process, frustratingly.
    Now I take my sequence with in and out points and chapter markers already in place, and go File Export in Quicktime - make sure you select Video only (and chapter markers if applicable). Convert to a QT movie which is quicker if you don't make the movie self contained.
    Then go to compressor which seems to open the appropriate source media. In the setting column click the little pop up and choose DVD Best Quality 90 mins (or whatever) and choose the dolby 2.0.
    This will save quite a lot of space on the audio side and may well allow you to get the full movie on - it has worked for me up to now. Once in DVD-SP you import the two files and combine them together on the timeline.
    This is massively quicker than compressing the video file in Compressor.
    What I don't know is how I will be able to get longer programmes on and what I don't understand is how we can all record at SP quality and get 2 hours onto a stand alone DVD recorder and yet struggle to get 90 mins on using FCP. Also I don't know whether the complexity of the sequence and the number of clips affects the size of the quicktime file - I would like to know.
    You have now plumbed the depths of my ignorance but sometimes the blind can lead the blind.
    Pete Snowdon

  • WOW Final CUT PRO Training DVDS! MORE? How to keep QT open (on top) more?

    1st of, I've seen the Lynda training for FCP but really enjoy the training DVD's with the surfer (Into The Blue)...
    Where can I get more training video DVD's with files like this to help me and build a reel?
    Also, part II, is there a way if using a MBP to keep QT DVD ontop so I don't have to keep APPLE TAB to get back to the training DVD? My work flow is follow along and pause DVD then go back, etc.
    Thanks!
    I am prediciting with OctoMACS due out next year or end of this year, FCP is going to make a splash in some of the AVID marketshare (most of television work that I have seen)..and want to get a jump on FCP.
    Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I would love to also know as mentioned above, some good books with DVD and project files thanks!

    You can turn off a preference in FCP's user prefs, to bring all windows to front on activation. That way only the windows you click on come in front of the DVD player.
    But probably a better way to handle the problem is to use the tab+apple key to bounce back and forth between the two apps. Try that...
    My book will work just fine in FCP 5, comes with a ton of media to work with, and will hone your skills I think.
    Also Apple's Pro Training series is much the same, and are written well. I'm working now on a training DVD...
    Jerry

  • Square pixels final cut pro and dvd production help

    i know this is not the normal/prescribed way to do this.
    i have some QT files that have been output from various programs at at 720 by 480 with square pixels.
    I would like to use FCP to edit and out put the files to DVDs that can be played on computer screens and standard tvs. (i realize i may need two different output settings and two sets of DVDs.)
    is this possible and what are the best sequence and audio video settings to use in FCP such that when the files output from fpc are brought into DVD pro the files for the computer playback is visually square?
    thank you kindly.
    please only answer if you really know how to do this...

    hi.
    thanks for the feedback.
    the are some programs like Flash that are widely used in the animation filed and that only output Square pixels. I know that Flash files have been used in broadcast work.
    i am wondering if there is a output setting someone is aware of in FCP such that it would alter the dimensions in such a way that that the new files would not appear distorted. for example if you select the files in the time line and go to the motion tab and alter the aspect ratio to -12 you get something workable but with a letterbox look. I am wondering if there is another solution other that the one that you have made clear.

  • Final Cut Pro to DVD

    Hi folks,
    I have a stack of MiniDV tapes which I have imported into FCP, these were a series of films made by a hospital. I have joined the footage together in FCP where necessary, giving me a series of films ranging from 40 minutes to an hour and 40 minutes. I've added a timecode to the sequence and now want to export the movies to burn onto DVD as a simple auto play DVD - I don't need menus or buttons as each disk will just contain the one film. I'm trying to use OneStep DVD from Movie in iDVD.
    Now - the problems I'm having.
    1. I'm a complete newbie regarding FCP, this project is a favour, and is nauseatingly urgent.
    2. When I export the sequence as a QT Movie, it comes out at 10-15GB, which iDVD won't play with.
    3. I can't work out the best way to export the movies.
    4. Is there a way to down-size these 10-15GB movies to something more manageable?
    Sorry that this all seems quite basic, ordinarily I wouldn't be doing this, but when I got the tapes a couple of days ago there was no one else around to try!!!
    Thanks in advance for your help. If anyone is prepared to have a quick chat on the phone regarding this then please drop me an email (rob@thisnorthernboy) - I will be eternally grateful. I am now pulling out my hair.
    Rob

    David Mclaine wrote:
    Brian, Just received an e mail from Rob, says he solved his problem.
    Regards, David
    But the remaining tens of thousands puzzled FCP-to-DVD newbies would like to know what you two did to solve this problems. It's a generally ignored protocol around here: close your threads with your solutions.
    Can you get him to respond?
    bogiesan

  • Final Cut Pro Training Suggestions/Recommendations

    Looking for suggestions for a great FCP instructor/class, but not super expensive. Have had three years of basic use, including green screen with Chromakeyer but all very, very basic skills, nothing fancy. Want to review these basics and move to the next level. A high school teacher trying to facilitate for students who learn more quickly and intuitively.Have looked at the Apple Pro series, but closest locations are over 1000 miles away.

    Does it have to be a face-to-face class? What about self-paced training?
    http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modlisting.asp?ref=vat
    http://www.rippletraining.com/engine/dvdrom.html?cms=759b41ad84e409c13b6d32beccf 153c6

Maybe you are looking for