There just has to be an easier way

I will admit it. I am new at this stuff. I want to present a couple of newlyweds with a DVD of their wedding.
I shot the footage and captured the video into FCP using the HDV1080i FireWire Basic capture preset. Did the edits then exported the thing into compressor. I used the apple > Best Quality 90 minute setting. After 15 hours or so I loaded the result into Studio Pro and had a look. Horrible combing(mouse teeth whatever)in the motion areas and especially high contrast areas. (White dresses and all that)
Someone, on one of the half a dozen forum sites I looked at suggested that I create a new timeline using the ProRes422 preset then copy and paste the old sequence into the ProRes422 timeline...which I did.
He went on to say that I should export the ProRes422 timeline footage into compressor and apply the following settings:
Apple> Best Quality 90 minute setting.
For Audio (Dolby Digital Professional 2)
Inspector > Encoder > Data Rate 224Khz
Frame Control > on
For Video (MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass
Inspector > Encoder > Video Format > PAL
Frame Rate > 25
Aspect Ratio > 16:9
Field Dominance > Top First
Frame Controls > on
Well I did all that and 15 hours later it still looked the same to me.
Seems that if I continue to make changes at the rate of one every 15 hours the newlyweds will have had kids, got sick of each other and be divorced by the time I get things good enough to print to a DVD.
Can some person out there who understands what it is like to be a frustrated student give me a few clues to piont me in the right direction?

First, I suggest you experiment with only a couple minutes of your project until is looks right. You'll save a lot of time.
Plastique45 provided a workflow recently that really improved my output results. His post is in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7519012&#7519012
The things that made the biggest improvement were his suggestions involving Compressor settings. Specifically, the bit rate settings and the Frame Control settings.
Good Luck.
Larry

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If you have 15 genre's and want a smart playlist that contains only Rock and Blues, the only way is to do 13 "does not contain" rules? And then there is no way to copy this rule to another folder?
There has to be an easier way.

"Playlist is whatever " has been there for years, actually. Here is my most recent playlist I got from another site. It's called Fresh Mix:
It's a playlist to give you a mix of your new tracks, favourite tracks, and stuff you like but haven't listened to for a while, and it will automatically refresh as you listen to music in iTunes or on your iPod.
You'll actually need 4 smart playlists to start, and you need to be rating your music with star ratings as well. CHange the days and limits for your listening habits and iPod capacity.
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3. New smart playlist 'Recently Added'. Match 'all' of the following rules. Set 'Last played is not in the last 2 days. Add Playlist is Music. Limit to 600 Mb selected by *most recently added*. Select match checked songs, and live updating.
4. New smart playlist 'Top Rated'. Match 'all' of the following rules. set 'Rating' 'is greater' than 2 stars. Add Playlist is Music. Set 'Last played' 'is not in the last' '2 days'. Limit to 1200 Mb by least recently played.
5. New smart playlist 'Freshmix'. Match any of the following rules. Playlist is 'Not Recent' + Playlist is 'Not Recent and Rated' + Playlist is 'Recently Added' + Playlist is 'Top Rated'. Limit to 300 items selected by random.
So there you go! You now have a playlist that plays 20% old stuff, 20% old stuff you like/don't hate, 20% new stuff, and 40% favourites. Of course you can vary the star ratings to suit your own style, and the proportion of each category by changing the size in megabytes of each playlist (in theory).
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/tech/web/mac-flashback-trojan-check/index.html
Just did it works great and they also have a post on how to remove it as well.

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Don't feel daft.. the fundamental principle of access from external location is a bit strange..
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Does the TC get the public IP on the wan interface?
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Newbie - There has to be an easier way to enlarge a mc and shrink mc on click

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There Has to Be an Easier Way ...

W3C says you should notify a visitor of where they're being
directed once
they click a link. For external links, I'm simply placing a
"double-window"
icon next to the link. At this point in time, I'm coding the
image in each
time, like so:
<img src="...." width="x" height="x" alt="..."
title="...">
It's just getting cumbersome to do this - and I've seen other
websites use
this icon technique but the explicit coding of the image was
not there.
What's the "known" work-around?
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To elaborate - Thierry - I'm really interested in the
methodology your
article demonstrates the potential for. For learners like
myself - it's a
bit hard to catch on to what exactly is going on. In the
code, I don't see a
way to implement displaying the image when Javascript is
enabled and to not
do so if it's disabled.
Also - how is this relayed to only *certain* links. Looking
through your
personal code on your website, the <a> links only
contain the href="..."
location - no hooks or anchors such as rel, class, etc.
If you could elaborate - I'd truly appreciated it, Thierry.
Shane H
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> Fair enough - but what happens with the length of the
text changes - the
> padding would off, no?
>
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>> Shane H wrote:
>>> Thanks Thierry. I've already implemented a
Javascript solution for
>>> pop-ups; however, reading through your article -
I didn't see any
>>> indication of how to add the double-window icon.
>>
>> It's all over the place
>>
>>> Do you have an explanation?
>>
>> You set a class to these anchors and then use a
background image with
>> padding.
>> You should also add something in the title of these
links to let users
>> know
>> they open a popup.
>> Check your JS solution to make sure it degrades
nicely regarding the
>> title
>> attribute value; with JS off, there is no need to
warn the user that
>> these
>> links open in a popup
>>
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My external hard drive somehow was renamed from f:/ to g:/, and subsequently now itunes can't find half my music. So, my question is how do you delete all of the files in itunes that have an exclamaton point next to them without doing it manually (which would take hours) so you can add g:/ to the library? As user friendly as apple is, there has to be a way to delete all tracks that itunes can't find.

OOOooooohhh man, i FEEL your pain. The short answer is...NO. I had this exact same problem a while ago and there really is no way around it. The only option is to consolidate your music, make sure it will never move again, and have iTunes make a whole new library. This of course means that you will need to make all of your playlists over again. I know this ***** but consider the alternative (finding all your songs individually). The other option you may have is if you have your entire library on your iPod, then you could use a program like iPodcopy to makes things right again. Good luck and sorry.

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Hi. We just got a new laptop and did this (thanks to Chris CA!): Note this was from a Windows/XP to a Windows/Vista.
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Select Yes.
When it's finished, launch iTunes and everything should be there."
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Captivate 6 vid to Premiere Pro CS6 - any easy way?

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I'm concerned about restoring my phone, I'm not exactly computer savvy, and there are some game apps on my phone that I'd be afraid of deleting.
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