I have a shoot Tuesday, and the client wants me to burn the raw footage to DVD with the time showing on the screen. I have MC5, how can I do that?



Dan
Forever Moments Video Productions (http://www.forevermomentsvideo.com)

Dan: It largely depends on the footage: how much and what format.

Let's say you are file based. Bring in the clips, stack them into a sequence in order, then pick the TC generator out of your effects palette. (it will be easier if you do a video mixdown first, and just get one long sequence clip). Drop the effect on the time line, and select source video for the TC display, not sequence time.

Export the clip and do a fast burn to DVD. It's clunky, but it can work. Of course, you could also take the sequence, export it as something like a smaller Mpeg4, and post it online with the window burn. Probably less hassle than burning and shipping a DVD.

Bill,

Thank you for responding. I will give it a try Tuesday and let you know how it worked out. I have the NX5
so it should work like you said.


Dan
Forever Moments Video Productions (http://www.forevermomentsvideo.com)

Bill, what format should I save the the sequence to? I tried to save it to a AVI file and it wouldn't do the full sequence, the two gig file limit I guess.

Dan
Forever Moments Video Productions (http://www.forevermomentsvideo.com)

Another way is to take Composite & audio out of your Mojo or Adrenaline card then run it to your stand alone dvd burner (less than $100). Hit record on the burner, & spacebar on your Media Composer and you're rockin.

First you need to render the timecode effect over your footage (as previously mentioned)- this can take a good amount of time, then I would spend hours converting clips to combine several hours of footage onto one dvd. Then you need to make a menu, then author...what a time waster!

With a dvd burner you can set the unit for 1, 2, 4 or 6 hour mode. When you hit "stop" on the recorder it makes a menu clip icon so the viewer can choose what movie they want to watch. Then you can burn more clips is you wish. If you use this method you wont need to convert, make menu's, etc. Also you can compress the hell out of your footage (6 hour mode) to give them one disk which is normally good enough for a producer to log footage.