Congratulations on some great performances yesterday! Isaac and I were super impressed with what you accomplished in a very short period of time. If I don't see you next week, have a wonderful break.
-Norene
1. Assemble and review your documentation (video, photos, etc.). If you have video, do a basic edit, and burn a quicktime file to DVD. If you have photos, please edit them down to the best 10-15, and burn to CD/DVD.
2. Deliver a CD/DVD with your performance project documentation (photos and/or video) to my locker in Fine Arts (instructions for accessing the locker will be emailed to you) by 10am Tuesday December 18, 2012. If I do not have documentation of your performance, I cannot submit your grade. You can also drop off additional DVDs with projects you have reworked/revised, or DVDs of projects that you didn't turn in. I will use the newest DVDs to calculate your final grade.
3. Watch and give feedback on Vito's performance video, and stop motion project videos by Alma & Vito. YouTube links will be emailed to you early next week.
4. Fill out the online course evaluation for this class.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Making a Mastered DVD for any DVD Player
These are basic instructions for making a DVD with a menu that will play anywhere (any TV, any computer, and any DVD player). DVD's are by their very nature just Standard Definition (i.e. NOT HD). iDVD will take your HD movie and down convert it into interlaced NTSC Standard Def video. In order to record HD video onto a physical disk you need a Blu-Ray disk and Blu-Ray burner, not something that is standard on Apple or owned by most people. This is why you are making BOTH a full quality Quicktime file (preserving HD as needed) AND a mastered DVD of your projects.
1. Export your projects as full quality Quicktime files and burn them to DVD so that you have backups (http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-exporting-high-quality-quicktime.html).
2. Copy all of your Quicktime files to Work in Progress on one of the New School's computers (don't try to burn DVDs from your hard drive!) and open iDVD. Click "Create New Project." If you are asked, keep the aspect ratio Standard. (In order to properly display widescreen DVDs, the DVD player and TV must be able to read the widescreen aspect ratio and properly display the full menu, which most TVs and DVD players cannot do. Widescreen DVDs suffer from significant cropping when displayed on regular 4:3 TV sets.)
3. Go to iDVD> Preferences. Under "General" uncheck "Show Apple Logo Watermark."
Under "Projects" change the Encoding to Professional Quality and DVD Type to Single Layer. Name your DVD.
4. Click on "7.0 Themes" and change to "All." Scroll down to "Portfolio Color." Drag and drop your Quicktime video projects into the main area. They will appear as icons with text below.
5. To edit the buttons, click "Buttons" on the lower right to choose the shape. Then Control-click on the image and choose "Show Inspector Window" which will allow you to adjust the size, etc. of the button.
To edit the text, click twice. You can choose font, size, etc.
6. Click the Play button on the bottom right to preview your DVD.
Once it's ready, click the Burn button next to the Play button. Insert your DVD-R DVD and get out something to read because THIS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME (20-30 minutes maybe more!). Then voila! You have a DVD. Burning subsequent DVDs takes a lot less time, so make duplicates NOW.
7. Make as many of these DVDs as you need. They burn much more quickly after the first one.
Video tutorial:
PDF tutorial (you don't need chapter markers, so start from page 6):
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/iDVD_tutorial.pdf -from http://www.bgsu.edu
Ken Stone is also an excellent resource for all things FCP and iDVD related.
Detailed iDVD tutorial from Ken Stone's web site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_6_stone.html
iDVD 7
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
**There are some options for burning Blu-Ray material onto a standard DVD in a format that Blu-Ray players will recognize in FCP, see this earlier post: http://introto4df11.blogspot.com/2011/10/burning-mastered-dvd-directly-from-fcp.html. Only do this if you have a Blu-Ray DVD player, it will not play on your Mac!
1. Export your projects as full quality Quicktime files and burn them to DVD so that you have backups (http://introto4df12.blogspot.com/2012/10/fcp-exporting-high-quality-quicktime.html).
2. Copy all of your Quicktime files to Work in Progress on one of the New School's computers (don't try to burn DVDs from your hard drive!) and open iDVD. Click "Create New Project." If you are asked, keep the aspect ratio Standard. (In order to properly display widescreen DVDs, the DVD player and TV must be able to read the widescreen aspect ratio and properly display the full menu, which most TVs and DVD players cannot do. Widescreen DVDs suffer from significant cropping when displayed on regular 4:3 TV sets.)
3. Go to iDVD> Preferences. Under "General" uncheck "Show Apple Logo Watermark."
4. Click on "7.0 Themes" and change to "All." Scroll down to "Portfolio Color." Drag and drop your Quicktime video projects into the main area. They will appear as icons with text below.
5. To edit the buttons, click "Buttons" on the lower right to choose the shape. Then Control-click on the image and choose "Show Inspector Window" which will allow you to adjust the size, etc. of the button.
To edit the text, click twice. You can choose font, size, etc.
6. Click the Play button on the bottom right to preview your DVD.
Once it's ready, click the Burn button next to the Play button. Insert your DVD-R DVD and get out something to read because THIS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME (20-30 minutes maybe more!). Then voila! You have a DVD. Burning subsequent DVDs takes a lot less time, so make duplicates NOW.
7. Make as many of these DVDs as you need. They burn much more quickly after the first one.
Video tutorial:
PDF tutorial (you don't need chapter markers, so start from page 6):
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/iDVD_tutorial.pdf -from http://www.bgsu.edu
Ken Stone is also an excellent resource for all things FCP and iDVD related.
Detailed iDVD tutorial from Ken Stone's web site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_6_stone.html
iDVD 7
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
**There are some options for burning Blu-Ray material onto a standard DVD in a format that Blu-Ray players will recognize in FCP, see this earlier post: http://introto4df11.blogspot.com/2011/10/burning-mastered-dvd-directly-from-fcp.html. Only do this if you have a Blu-Ray DVD player, it will not play on your Mac!
Final Crit Schedule
Isaac's schedule for tomorrow is below. Email us ASAP if there are any
changes or concerns. We are starting at 9am in 2 W. 13th St. room 811.
Get here EARLY so that we can start right at 9am. The class will go
until 3pm, so that we can fit everyone in. If you have to leave
earlier, please let me know in advance. Due to the size of the class
and our time constraints, you will only be allowed to perform for 5
minutes. PLEASE REHEARSE, we don't want to have to cut you off.
Everyone had some great ideas last week, really looking forward to
seeing your projects!
-Norene
TIMES:
Performance Classroom (2 W. 13th St. room 811)
9.00 - 9.20 Elsa
9.20 - 9.40 Sarah (documentation)
9.40 - 10.00 Rob (video)
10.00 - 10.20 Vito (video and possible performance)
10.20 - 10.40 Alma
10.40 - 11.00 Gabby
11.00 - 11.20 Athena (laptop/projection)
11.20 - 11.40 Rusty (video OR performance)
BREAK
Presentation Space (Installation Space A, Fine Arts, 25 E. 13th St., 4th floor)
12.20 - 12.40 Manuel
12.400 - 1.00 Kerim
1.00 - 1.20 Georgia (video)
1.20 - 1.40 Lola (video)
2.00 - 2.20 Damasia (projection + installation)
2.20 - 2.40 Sahar
2.40 - 3.00 Erin (video)
-Norene
TIMES:
Performance Classroom (2 W. 13th St. room 811)
9.00 - 9.20 Elsa
9.20 - 9.40 Sarah (documentation)
9.40 - 10.00 Rob (video)
10.00 - 10.20 Vito (video and possible performance)
10.20 - 10.40 Alma
10.40 - 11.00 Gabby
11.00 - 11.20 Athena (laptop/projection)
11.20 - 11.40 Rusty (video OR performance)
BREAK
Presentation Space (Installation Space A, Fine Arts, 25 E. 13th St., 4th floor)
12.20 - 12.40 Manuel
12.400 - 1.00 Kerim
1.00 - 1.20 Georgia (video)
1.20 - 1.40 Lola (video)
2.00 - 2.20 Damasia (projection + installation)
2.20 - 2.40 Sahar
2.40 - 3.00 Erin (video)
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