Pressure cooker! Help me?

[gwyn_r]

I finished my VVC Premieres vid finally today. I think it looks awful but what can you do. I've never worked this far up against the deadline, which is Friday night, and I always like to give myself lots of room. That was not in the cards this year, between the job changes and getting a new computer and needing to get Final Cut Pro in order to vid

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[destina]

OMG, I feel your pain. I so wish I could help with the technical stuff. *hug* But I'm thrilled you finished a premieres vid!!

[soundingsea]

I am really, really dumb with FCP. But for what it's worth, I "save project", and then I do File->export->Quicktime Movie. There's some menus with some choices (mostly to do with encoding - I've been using H.264 for less loss.) Anyhow, when it's done, it comes out as a .mov file.

Is that what you're trying to do?

[gwyn_r]

Well, a little more than save as a .mov file. I'm trying to deal with some compression requirements and to separate the audio and video files, and I can't really figure out how based on the info I find. Some of it's just older, for a previous version of FCP, and a lot of it is made for a different kind of audience than what I'm doing it for.

::Hates technology.::

[soundingsea]

You're way ahead of me! (The video work I do has far less in the way of requirements, and I've never had to separate the audio and video.)

One place I've found decent tutorials is AMV sites. They usually aren't Anime-specific.

[deejay]

I think it looks awful but what can you do.

Honey, it can't possibly look worse than my camera-copy-source 'Iron Man' vid, lol...!

As for "demuxing" ... I will have four vids at VVC this year, and have no earthly idea as to what this entails.

*sigh*

[keiko_kirin]

Does your Final Cut come with Compressor? The version I have came with Compressor.app, and in Compressor you can output a demuxed file, though it's not obvious that's what you're doing. Export > Using Compressor > opens up Compressor.app. Then you highlight or drag the file you want to demux into the "batch" pane, click the tiny pop-up for options, and look for the "DVD: Best Quality" choices that fit the VVC specs. Looks like the "DVD: Best Quality: 90 minutes" would work. It produces an AIFF sound file and an MPEG-2 video file. Though Compressor doesn't state it clearly, the MPEG-2 file is an .m2v, which is what VVC wants

[elynross]

You've probably already looked at this, and I don't know how compatible it is with FCPro, but we have links to Killa's instructions and Barkley's modified instructions in case you can't get FFMpegX to work.

Congrats on getting the vid done!