Finished project...what now?

I have completed a project, exported it, burned it to a dvd...what do i do now to free up the space on my hard-drive?
-do i just go in and delete the capture scratch, render files, etc.?
-or is there a more orderly way?
-do i delete the project from fce?
also, i've heard that if for some reason i need to go back and add to the project, i can recapture it. if i do that, the fce project can reconnect to those files?

Hi(Bonjour)!
If your project is actually finished, burned on a DVD and printed to tape, you can delete your render folder.
If you want to re-edit your project in future, you must consider those things:
1) save all non-DV media in on a CD or DVD as data. (still pictures, music, foley, text file if any, livetype project file, soudtrack project file, any rendered movie coming from 3D software and included in your project, foreigh formats documents, etc) . If those media are not on a DV tape, you must burn them to be able to re-edit your project.
2)Save on the same CD or data DVD, your final Cut project file (usually it's a small file- between 200k and 2 meg- that contain all intructions processed by FCE to re-construct your project. This file is actually a list of "pointer" bearing to all media material on your hard disk (material like those in item 1) ), and media captured from DV tape, and a list of instruction to handle those media. It's also a list of all filter, transitions, personnal settings, etc.
3)When all those files are safely burned on a CD or data DVD, and only when, you can safely erase all material related to your project, the render folder, waveform cache, thumbnail cache, autosave folder, and the project file itself.
BEWARE HDV project cannot be recaptured.
Bonus: When all those files are gone, it's make a sense to defragment your hard disk and run disk utility to check the integrity of this important piece of hardware.
Michel Boissonneault

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Hi
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There are Bugs and ways to make better or Worse DVDs - see if this can help.
There are two "Bugs" (or at least one)
• In iDVD - do not go back to video editing program - if You got Chapters set in Your movie - if You try - then now back in iDVD it will ask You to up-date ==> all Chapters will point to Chapter one. Medicine - create a brand new iDVD Project.
• There MUST NOT BE any Chapter mark set in very beginning of the Movie - or in any transition or within 2 seconds from them.
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser ( AND AS MEDIUM - not HD etc as DVD then will suffer in quality ) or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
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• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
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Yes. Upgrade to CS5.5. (This feature first showed up in CS4.)
What I want to do now is to archive the finished projects
You can safely delete everything on the F and P drives. Previews can simply be rebuilt. No need to waste space trying to save them.
Save the project files on the D drive. Delete the media on E (you can always recapture if you need to rebuild).
Do not use the Project Manager. Premiere Pro is an NLE. Use it for it's intended purpose. Use a real file manager (Windows Explorer on the PC, Finder on the Mac) to execute file operations.

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so i have finished my project and now i have GB's worth of the original files on my MBP along with presumably a ton of render files (what even are they and what happens if i delete them)
so my question is, would it be ok to move my original quicktime files (which were used in the project) over to my external HD and if i ever wanted to bring back the project could i just locate them again?
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thank you

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Render files are quicktime movies created when you rendered any effects or audio files. Like a title or color correction etc... they replace the original files during playback of sequences, i.e. instead of playing the original files, FCP plays these render files. They will delete all by themselves when they are not found in any sequence in your project, so you get them managed automatically by FCP.
Backup your project file on a CD or DVD... get it off the computer. From it, you could recapture if you lose all the media that came from tape. But you can't recapture things like photshop files or stills ,imported CD files (things not from timecoded tape)... so put them on the DVD too.This DVD backup should also contain the new project file.
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How do I package a finished project to a client. She insisted on having three name logotypes with different effects and three monogram logotypes with different effects. The finished name logotypes are on one artboard/file, and the finished monogram logotypes are on another artboard/file.
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I had had MacKeeper installed for a short while on my previous Mac; never on my new MacBook Pro. I could not find any trace of it in Application Support, Launch Daemons, or LaunchAgents, in either my user Library or the root Library. But I figured maybe there was some trace somewhere that had been copied over from the old system, so I deleted iMovie and went to reinstall it from the App Store.
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I have a finalized project in iMovie '11. Shared it on Youtube, Facebook, and Vimeo. Then, when I shared it to iDVD, it reverted to a previous version of the project, so my titles and pictures were out of sequence. My final project is now gone!

I have a finalized project in iMovie '11. Shared it on Youtube, Facebook, and Vimeo. Then, when I shared it to iDVD, it reverted to a previous version of the project, so my titles and pictures were out of sequence. Now, in my list of projects, my project is there, but finalized as the previous version which is all out of sequence. My true final project is now gone! What happend?
I didn't notice this problem until after the DVD was burned in iDVD. Then, when I played the DVD in a public setting, I was a bit embarrassed by what played.

Hi
My first thoughts are
• iMovie ill behaving - Trash the iMovie pref file - use to set things right
• in reg. to Photos - Did You change iPhoto Photo Library - Then iMovie get's lost as it peeks into iPhoto on start up to see where photos are stored. Set iPhoto back to first Photo Library (when iMovie is not running) then start iMovie.
Yours Bengt W

How do i save a finished project to a thumb drive (IDVD)

imade a simple dvd which has a title screen and 3 separate slide shows all with 1 song each. it plays great on the screen but when i go to burn it to a DVD is took forever and was very choppy and did not work well. i then tried to save it to the desktop or a thumb drive with it still not working like a dvd file should. I am very new to Mac and it may be simple but i cant figure it out. I want it to be on my thumb drive so i can plug it into another mac, go the the thumb and press play. again in the IDVD editing screen it works fine, but i cant get it to save to the disk drive or thumb as a finished project. any suggestions email me at hooziz2005 at gmail dot com ( that i how new I am to mac....i dont even think i could figure out ho to read any answer you guys may post to this question of mine!!! So ill check my email
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Hello, hooziz,
Welcome to the discussions.
iDVD should be thought of as a container that is used temporarily, just when you burn a DVD or encode the projects' data. The media is not stored within the project the way it is in iMovie. All the media used in iDVD are represented by a kind of alias, referring iDVD to actual file when the project is burned. So, if you move any media or even rename a photo, iDVD will not be able to locate it to burn your disk. Obviously then, if you move your iDVD project only, take it to another computer and expect to find all your photo, music and movie files there, you will not, because they are 'at home' on your computer.
If you want to be able to take your iDVD project to another Mac, you need to create a disk image file of your project. You do this in iDVD, by selecting 'save as disk image.' This process looks exactly like the burn process, but the end result is a disk image file, not a burned disk. The media information is encoded onto the disk image file, making it a self-contained file, so that all the media information is in that file. Now, you can transfer the disk image to a thumb drive and move it to another computer with all the data intact. You can burn a DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility or Toast.
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I have just been playing around with exporting to different formats when the edit had been completed. There are loads of formats available when you use the Quick Time Conversion - What does everyone here use??
Ofcourse for different applications you will use different formats. But im curious as to what formats people use the most, and what one they use for what application??
I am finding that when exporting HD footage, you can lose much of the film quality - unless you wait the hour or so for it to encode it into a Quicktime film.
I look forward to hearing what you have to say. . .
Thanks

Hi(Bonjour)!
Keep in mind that a HD content converted to a SD (Standard definition) format will loose quality because resolution is 6 times smaller in a SD format. C'est la vie.
When I do "HD" in FCE, I print to tape my finished project on a "final program" tape, I keep source tape with all non-video material on CD or data DVD to make further edit in futur.
I can export with quicktime (not self-contained) and drag the resulting file in a Standard screen DVD project. The conversion process will occur within iDVD. I'll get a standard DVD for use in home.
**When my goal is to produce a SD DVD right from start, I downconvert HDV material from my Camcorder -Sony FX1- upon capturing process. It's faster and more reliable than convert HDV within iDVD-PAY ATTENTION TO WIDE SCREEN ISSUES.
I can export with quicktime conversion to H.264 with full or half size frame dimensions and burn a CD or data DVD or leave a copy on your hard drive. (HD content on Quicktime's web site is compressed with H.264)
Finally, I use Flip4Mac studio to make some kinds of WMF files for my PC friends.
Michel Boissonneault

How to make "Time of Day" show on my finished project

I am a private investigator. I shoot surveillance footage using a Canon XH A1 HD Camcorder. I am currently using Adobe Premier Pro and hate it. I need to have the time and date show in the finished project I provide to my clients. The information is on the mini dv tape but doesn't show in my project unless I capture through a Canopus break out box and use analog (RCA) capture cables. When I capture via this method, the project is 4:3 and low quality, not HD. I would like to just capture via firewire as this would give me a higher quality project and a wide screen image.
I have a MacBook Pro and would make the change to a full Mac Pro and FC or FCE system if I could just get what to me should be a simple thing to actually happen! I could even use iMovie for all of the editing we do is super simple. Can anyone steer me in the right direction. Thanks.

I do understand your intention, but the "unaltered" image is actually the clean one ie with no time/date stamp displayed ... the display of the embedded time/date stamp data is simply a function of the camera/player and not an intrinsic part of the picture itself. as long as the data you you overlaid manually was accurate then strictly speaking it should be no more or less satisfactory
Suppose for example, that I could point you to a free plugin that can read and display the embedded data code ... applying it to your video would alter the picture no more an no less than if you had manually applied text generators that displayed that same information ... the filter would just be automating the tedious manual process

Finished project...what now?

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