Tiny animation big nightmare

Hi there,
I've pulled together an animation in After Effects and have rendered it to export a .mov
have now put it on my timeliine in Adobe Premiere Pro and exported onto a Mini DV.....theeeeeeeeen....I captured it on Apple Mac using FCP. Now have a nice wee looping animation that doesn't look too bad.
My problem begins with exporting another .mov and then importing into DVD studio Pro. It has brought with it a couple of black frames with it at the beginning..obviously no go if it's to be a seamless loop. Any ideas how I can trim this? It all looks fine in FCP
Hope you guys can help. This is the first time I've tried to cut a DVD. It's Pal and 4:3 ration.
Fingers crossed.
Carol Ann

Hi there,
I'll go post it in the forum you mentioned. But it's a step further on with your possible solution. Not at work now so it'll have to wait till the morning
Thanks for informing me of the other forum to post.
regards
Carol Ann

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Figure 10 Structure Relation
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Figure 11 Assign source fields
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Figure 12 Field mapping and Conversion rules overview
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Figure 13 File attributes
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Figure 15 Assign file to Source Structure
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Figure 16 Read Data
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Figure 17 Display Read Data
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Figure 18 Display Converted Data
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Figure 23 LSMW Conversion Rules
Choose radio button Constant (Figure 23) to enter value XD02 transaction code.
Keep your cursor on field KUNNR and click on Assign source field icon
Choose source field Customer from source structure XD02S. (See Figure 24.)
Figure 24 Assign Source fields
Similarly, choose source fields for Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, and Division. (See Figure 25.)
Figure 25 Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
Scroll down to structure BKNVV fields and assign source fields to three fields Sales Office, Sales Group, and Customer Group
(Figure 26).
Figure 26 Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
Save and go back to main screen.
Step 12: Display Converted data
When you convert data, LSMW automatically converts into the appropriate structure layouts, as required by Standard program
(RFBIDE00). (See Figure 27).
Figure 27 Converted data into multiple structures
Note that if you had only one record in source file, the converted file has four records.
Earlier, creating this input file, so that the standard interface program can read it, was a big nightmare, the primary reason being
that it could have multiple record layouts. Even for a simple conversion with one input record, you would have to create this
complex file with many record layouts. The advantage of LSMW is that it prepares these multi-layout files automatically.
Step 13: Create batch input session
Once source data is converted in internal format, you can create a BDC session to process the updates (Figures 28 and 29).
Figure 28 Create BDC Session
Figure 29 BDC Session CUST_OBJ created
Regards
AK

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