Hello! I have a client, well I guess I'm the client since I am an actor in her film, and she was handing out dvd's that she made of the rough edits at a film festival this week. They didn't look very good at all compression wise...lots of articfacts.
Any way, I wanted to help her out and take her file and make a master dvd for her to make copies from to present to people. I'm sure I could get a better result with Vegas/DVD arch. She's using FCP and she shoots in DVCPRO 50 format. I've done some searching and it looks like Vegas doesn't support that, so, I was thinking maybe a Quicktime uncompressed file would be a good way for me to import into Vegas and render to MPEG2.
So, if that is a good solution, my last question would be what format does a hard drive need to be in so both a Mac and a PC can read/write? I had to do FAT32 about 5 years ago when hiring someone to master a dvd for me using DVD Studio Pro. It was a bit of a nightmare. I had to split my video into 2 files so they wouldn't be larger than 2GB or was it 4GB. I forget. Any way, that messed up my chapter points and I had to make the chapter points start over again half way through the video (2nd vid file).
So, has the FAT32 file size limit thing changed or am I still stuck in the same situation? I just need to get her very large file from her Mac into Vegas. Thanks as usual for your input. DH
PS When doing searches for other posts on particular subjects, I am constantly shaking my head at some of the people who post a question on this forum and then start yelling at others (through text) who are trying to help them. It baffles me. I really can't understand how anyone could react that way towards someone else who has taken the time out of their day to write back...whether it helps the person posting or not. There...I'm done venting. :o)
Any way, I wanted to help her out and take her file and make a master dvd for her to make copies from to present to people. I'm sure I could get a better result with Vegas/DVD arch. She's using FCP and she shoots in DVCPRO 50 format. I've done some searching and it looks like Vegas doesn't support that, so, I was thinking maybe a Quicktime uncompressed file would be a good way for me to import into Vegas and render to MPEG2.
So, if that is a good solution, my last question would be what format does a hard drive need to be in so both a Mac and a PC can read/write? I had to do FAT32 about 5 years ago when hiring someone to master a dvd for me using DVD Studio Pro. It was a bit of a nightmare. I had to split my video into 2 files so they wouldn't be larger than 2GB or was it 4GB. I forget. Any way, that messed up my chapter points and I had to make the chapter points start over again half way through the video (2nd vid file).
So, has the FAT32 file size limit thing changed or am I still stuck in the same situation? I just need to get her very large file from her Mac into Vegas. Thanks as usual for your input. DH
PS When doing searches for other posts on particular subjects, I am constantly shaking my head at some of the people who post a question on this forum and then start yelling at others (through text) who are trying to help them. It baffles me. I really can't understand how anyone could react that way towards someone else who has taken the time out of their day to write back...whether it helps the person posting or not. There...I'm done venting. :o)