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Selecting one of 60 tracks is easy enough, it follows the pattern above, but you'll have larger numbers and more lines of code. You may even need two scripts working together - the last line of script 1 jumping to the first line of script 2.
The bigger question is whether you need to make each selection unique, or whether you are OK with the system repeating tracks that have been previously se
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Pretty easy to do... but it involves scripting.
To get it right, you first need to decide whether you want to play a chapter marker, or put them all into stories and play them from there.
I'll assume chapter markers - and that you've got end jumps on each marker to go back to the menu. For the sake of this I'll also assume 10 markers on the track.
Add a script to your project and create
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It's fairly straightforward - you need to add ROM data to your project.
First of all, decide whether you want the PDF to just be on the root of the DVD alongside the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. This is untidy, but OK if you only have one file to add. If you want to put it into it's own folder on the DVD (say, 'Additional Content' then you need to follow a slightly different route.
First
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
OK - I'm assuming that you've got the main settings in the property inspector all pointing to the right places - click on the disc icon in the outline view, or the grey background if you are using the graphical view. In the PI, look to see where the drop down selection boxes for 'Menu' and 'Title' are pointing to. These govern the way the basic navigation works when a viewer uses the 'Menu' or 'T
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
In almost every case, you can do this using the remote control handset. Just add your subtitles, add your audio tracks and use the handset to switch between them. You need do nothing else.
You would use a menu when you want to set these from the start of playback.
You can also use a menu for people who want to pause playback and use a menu to make the changes.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
This is such a difficult question to answer, because there is no single right answer. Compression is not simply a matter of applying a formula and getting the best result possible - it is a combination of knowing your footage, the lighting, the speed of the action shots, the source material type (miniDV, etc) and whether or not you'll be using multiple audio streams, additional ROM material, subt
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
One last question - do you see this behaviour no matter what you were viewing on the player at the time stop is pressed twice... or are you seeing the same track that you were last watching? i.e. does it change if you press stop, stop, play whilst in a menu, or in a track,etc?
And a point to note - use a short track with black slug about a second long and use that as your first play item. Set
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Did you remember to set the display mode for the track in DVDSP to be 16:9? This is easily overlooked... check your settings by clicking on the track icon in the outline view and looking in the property inspector for the display mode.
When you say you 'play it' in DVDSP, do you mean you use the simulator? If so, did you check the aspect ratio settings for that?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
What have you got set as the first play item?
Dumping the build folder is not a bad thing to do when you change anything in your project - or simply specify a new build folder... you shouldn't need to re-create the entire disc (quite a chore, at any rate).
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Basically, you have to go from 1080i to a standard def format. You might be able to down-convert from the camera (some Sony's do this, but possibly only the higher range Z1/Z5, etc) or you can do this in Compressor. Go from FCP directly into Compressor, choose any SD template for the encode (120 mins, 90 mins, etc) and use this as a start point. Ensure you go to MPEG2 and AC3 audio only, and keep
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I would guess the track it goes to is the one listed at the top of the tracks in the outline view. There is nothing you can do except put a different track there.
What would you like it to do? If you want to see a menu, try putting a short track of black slug (about a second long) and setting the end jump to the main menu. Position that at the top of the list and see if that gets around it.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
OK- it's quite hard to describe this in writing, but very easy to show you...
When you add a script to your project it has a single command showing - 'nop', which stands for 'No Operation'. Click on the nop and look in the property inspector. You should have access to a series of commands that you can apply.
Use the 'Set GPRM' command first, and the inspector will change again and show you
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Did you remember to set the aspect ratio for the track to 16:9? Click on the track icon in the outline view, and look in the property inspector for 'Display Mode'. Use the dropdown box there to select the ratio you want.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Hi Casey - your thread on the Apple discussions has the answers, and I've posted about a scripted solution, which I copy here for you (note that there is a small error in the scripts which I've marked correctly here):
Hmm... so you want to try scripting? Great! I think everyone should...
I'll assume a simple two menu and two track disc... here's what you do.
Create a script that reads:
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
So - you're using Compressor, and you are using the preset settings, right? When you use the 90 minute setting you are minutely over the limit... why not 'tweak' the settings manually to reduce the max bitrate in use to something very slightly less. You'll save the .3Mb in no time.
You say you are using AC3 for the audio with your 6 MPEGs but later you say you have got AIFFs. If you have indee
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Bruce is a legend... glad you got it sorted.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
A DVD-Video disc has a specific structure to it, called 'UDF' (as opposed to ISO discs that you create by simply dropping data onto them and burning them in the finder).
As long as the person you give the folder to is aware that they are to create a UDF DVD-Video disc then just giving them the video_ts folder *should* be OK.
However, you *could* give them a disc image that you have created
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I'm not sure anyone here really uses iDVD enough to know - have you checked the iDVD forums at the Apple Discussions? There's bound to be someone there who'll have a better idea of what to do... sorry!
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I would start with how you compress it in Compressor, and what other settings you use in DVDSP. If your QT is playing fine (have you checked this on a different computer too?) then it can only be in the encode or the DVDSP settings.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Some info about how you created the menus would be useful - did you use photoshop layers? I am assuming not, but please let me know.
Secondly, the Simulator is not accurate (as you're finding) - but in your case it ought to behave quite well. Check your connections tab and *make sure* the links are in place. The biggest issue is the first menu where the button is not highlighted - have you got
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Slideshows are not my favourite part of DVDSP. In every case I find I get errors when I use them, and I end up converting them to tracks, or building them manually in FCP (or Motion) instead and importing them as video.
I'd think you are right about the markers. There is no reason why audio will drop out of a track because of them, but Slideshows are plain ugly. Try converting one to a track (
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
You are right - 'muxing' means multiplexing, the process of combining your video and audio assets with the navigational commands in order to create a VIDEO_TS folder. The AUDIO_TS folder is pretty much redundant as it holds no data on a DVD-Video disc, but is created as a matter of course to comply with the spec. Almost no players require it these days, but some still do.
Now, if you go into D
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It's not an invisible file. You've created a HD DVD in the same location at some point. What is your 'build location' set to? if you look there, you'll find a folder, not an invisible file. Delete that folder, or choose a different build location (just make a new folder anywhere on your system and point DVDSP at that folder as your build location).
I have posted the same over at Apple Forums f
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
To answer your first question, CSS stands for 'Content Scrambling System' and is a form of copy protection applied to DVDs. It is not able to be set up from within DVDSP - you can only set a flag that tells a replication bureau that you'd like CSS applied when they master the disc.
It is easily defeated these days, as is macrovision. However, DVDSP still lets you apply the flag for it.
If y
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
There are two things here - the visual effect of a text dissolve, and the button hotspots that will allow you to select an item on the menu.
The dissolves for the text are fine - but a button hotspot cannot dissolve in - it is either there, or not there. The usual way of thinking about this is that the early part of your menu containing the animated aspects and dissolves appears and then settl
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The process is generally to build and format and select DDP or CMF from the dialogue, and write the content to a DLT device instead of burning a disc.
However, you can also create the image to your hard drive and then make a data disc (not a video disc) using that image. Some replicators will be able to use that. More frequently these days replicators are taking output on hard drives instead o
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I'd say that they have got a preference setting in the DVD player software that asks whether they wish to resume playback from the last time the disc was viewed - Apple's DVD Player app has exactly this feature... check the 'previously viewed' section in there.
I am pretty confident in saying that you cannot have created an error like this in DVDSP, and that the fact you don't see the error su
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The 'timeline' on a DVD is in fact a series of objects that you determine the order of playback for. An object might be a menu, a script, a track, etc.
The way to get your copyright notice to appear first is to make a menu and add text to this, then set the time out value for long enough to allow people to read the text (time out value is found in the property inspector for the menu). As an ac
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
What format was the image in? If you used JPEG then expect it to look pants after encoding - the image is already in a lossy format... compressing it to MPEG will not improve things! If you can get an EPS file, or TIFF this is the best start point. TIFF can go right in to DVDSP, but otherwise use Photoshop and export as PICT or TIFF. This will help considerably.
If you composite the logos and
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
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