November 19, 2008, 5:51 pm
So this project has been fairly labour intensive, though nowhere near what I was worrying it might be at first. I set up the first Final Cut document with the first disc of the boxset, realized Final Cut can only have 98 tracks stacked on top of one another, so then started to export the disc 98 tracks at a time... well exported 98 tracks into 1 track, then layered all the output tracks into one final track per disc. Then I copied that file and just told Final Cut that the file it should be looking at was the file for the second disc. So I kept the structure on the timeline, just had to reconnect the media once and then export again. I think I'm at disc 9... 4 more to go.
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Richard. says,
That's awesome... I've been wanting to do the same type of thing with the Astro Boy box set. I've always thought about using automator to do it though... How long did this method take you total?
Comment posted on : November 21, 2008, 9:17 pm | By: Richard.
Justin says,
wow! you have the Astro Boy boxset, consider me jealous... I probably could have setup an automator to do some of the Quicktime audio exports, but the way I did it took probably 3 hours with exporting each disc from FCP after cutting the first disc. However, ripping each disc and exporting to mp4s took almost 4 hours each.
So far layering them all on top of one another just sounds like a lot of noise, but some interesting patterns kind of emerge from the background.
Comment posted on : November 22, 2008, 1:02 am | By: Justin
Richard. says,
wow is right! 4 hours per disc? that's insane... what software did you use to convert them? I'd recommend using Ripit to rip then using handbrake from there to convert to format (ripping from disc to drive is always a faster solution than plain encoding from disc - due to datarate speeds). Are you layering the video as well or just audio? because you could just edit the settings to have very low video encoding and then high audio encoding bitrates, that could speed things up considerably.
Comment posted on : November 23, 2008, 4:14 pm | By: Richard.
Richard. says,
Also, any chance of you uploading a sample of this to see or hear?
Comment posted on : November 23, 2008, 4:15 pm | By: Richard.
Justin says,
Hi Richard, yes, your idea of ripping then encoding probably would have worked better. I did the ripping and encoding through Handbrake at the same time. I wanted to have good quality video (as I imagine this project will inevitably go down the road of experimenting with the video as well as the audio)...
I'll likely post something soon, sorry for the absence, crazy week at school.
Comment posted on : November 26, 2008, 1:58 pm | By: Justin
