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I'd make four stories.
Put Charlie in one, Marx in another and the 3 stooges in the third. Set the end jumps of these to go back to the menu. Put ALL of them into the fourth story, and set the end jump of that to go back to the same story. It will loop.
Do the same with the secondary menus... you should be good to go.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Orange is not bad, it simply means that DVDSP is parsing the asset so that it can work with it more efficiently. A green asset either doesn't need this doing, or already has it done.
If you import still images, or .mov files, or h.264 assets then DVDSP will create a folder where it holds the information it needs. For example, if you import h.264 then DVDSP will strip out the audio stream (whic
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Thanks Alex - makes perfect sense!
I'm livin' and learnin'... :-)
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Go back to FCP, export via Compressor and use one of the MPEG2 presets. You will get one file for video and another for audio. Make sure the audio comes out of Compressor as AC3 (Dolby Digital). These will go straight in to DVDSP.
This work flow will also retain quality for you. If you go from FCP to web based formats, then re-encode to MPEG2 (as all DVD material needs to be for SD... unless y
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Subs are not that hard in DVDSP, if you follow some basic rules of thumb...
Firstly, and most importantly, you have already got your subs ina text file - this is crucial, and will save you hours of time if you need to make slight changes.
Changing the time for the start point will need to be done externally - if in doubt, do it outside of DVDSP at all times. There are several really good su
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It doesn't quite work that way, I'm afraid.
What you do to get this to work is use a background file that fades in everything that you want to fade in at the 10 frame point. Typically, you'd create this in Motion or FCP as a full sized piece of footage (i.e 720x480 for NTSC) so that it becomes the entire menu background (not just a button). You make the fade and then you extend the footage for
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It sounds as if you have got an end jump set up on Chapter 6.
If so, the end jump takes place at the end of that chapter, not on the start of the next (I know, I know... how can you tell the end of one from the start of the other...).
Click on chapter 6 and look in the property inspector - you'll see the end jump there, just change it to 'not set' (it's probably set to go to the menu) and
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Thanks Wayne - the Imagineer software is still in beta though, right? I don't mind using it if it will get me through the job in hand, but my spidey sense is tingling telling me to keep away from betas on a live production job! I am very interested in having a go with this kind of software though... just being cautious about using it on such a time pressured piece of work.
by Hal MacLean
- Café LA
Noah - SynthEyes looks awesome, and pretty much covers the issue - the demo of the green screen cat on the web site is pretty much the same situation we have got. We didn't have tracking points on the green screen, so I am not sure how close we can get, but I'll be looking at the demo version as of tomorrow morning! for $400 it seems very reasonably priced... although I may only use it once, it
by Hal MacLean
- Café LA
Thanks guys - all really useful stuff!
The shoot is a very short set of seven training scenarios for the health service here in the UK. The cameraman definitely didn't get asked for movement, and should have locked the camera down. It seems he was struggling to get the framing right - lots of minor side to side, quick zoms in and out for short distances. The communication was probably poor on
by Hal MacLean
- Café LA
I had to do this very thing only last month. After much fussing around converting to quicktime (and losing the transitions), using Keynote (and changing the way things looked) and exporting as jpegs, etc... I sorted it by using Screenflow to record the presentation as I ran through it.
Screenflow is more usually used to create tutorials from recording the screen, but since it can operate in th
by Hal MacLean
- Café LA
Just wondering if there is a good way to fix an annoying issue...
The situation is that the footage was shot against a green screen, and the camerman has decided that zooming and panning, just slightly, was a good idea. It is a medium shot, two people. Of course, in edit we are trying to put the backgrounds in place and the foreground image appears to float around unnaturally (and unnervingly)
by Hal MacLean
- Café LA
Interesting, Jake - why does it need to be UDF for a set of DDP files? Surely the bureau will simply take them from the disc and recreate form there? This is what they do if it is sent on a hard drive after all... so what have I missed here? Is this the sort of thing different bureaus handle in different ways?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Yup - that's the way to go... burn a data disc.
UDF is universal disc format - that's what DVD-Video discs are formatted as.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Maybe these things ought to be organised into a few of the user interfaces - for example, selecting all audio clips should be in the basic set up, but things like Pre/Post commands ought only to be in advanced... or perhaps there is a fourth interface needed here?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
This is a Disc Description Protocol (DDP) and DVDSP creates both 2 and 2.1.
You most frequently see the option when writing a DLT, but you can also build to your hard drive and select it from the options when you do so. You'll need to copy the resulting folder/s to a blank disc, but not make a DVD (as in a UDF disc), just a data disc. The bureau should be able to take it from there. Some will
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Yep - you certainly would see the difference if you introduced I frames more frequently, since these are full picture frames and not mathematical projections as B and P frames are. The more I frames you introduce the more quality your footage would have, but the more inefficient it would be at playing back which might, in some players, introduce stutters... however, it's worth a shot.
If you w
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Nope... not at all.
You can edit some of the items in a template, such as a still image or a piece of footage, of course, but not all templates are accessible to the end user. Some are set as .pox files, and you need Apple's own developer software to edit these... us mere mortals can't open them.
If you apply a template to your DVDSP project then look in the assets tab you'll see a folder i
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Go into your preferences for the tracks and check the box that is to 'fix invalid markers on build'... this should sort it for you.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Nope... what you describe requires caching of content, and this doesn't exist in DVD players.
You can get close to it... sort of.
If you set the button to autoactivate you can then jump to an identical menu that holds the animation footage. By mousing over each you can then go back and forth to each animation menu easily enough. However, on each animation menu you have to set the other butt
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Dissolves are one of the hardest things to encode nicely, and simply raising the bit rate is a little excessive in getting this done, IMO.
CBR encodes on this transition will not be as effective as VBR if done well. Use multi pass VBR, set the max at around 7.5 and the min at around 5... but do some tests. Take the transition footage as a small piece of video and encode it at different setting
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I see a couple of issues here for you to consider.
First off, whilst DVDs can technically cope with a video bitrate of 9.8, the total bitrate for all elements of your disc, including audio, subtitles, additional graphics and so on must not exceed 10.08mbps. If you encode your video to 9.8, then your audio can only be around 192kbps... i.e. AC3 at the lowest stereo setting.
Secondly, whilst
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Christina - are you looking to do this inside DVDSP or by using Final Cut? I'd strongly recommend FCP for this work, I don't think it is even possible in DVDSP.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
No, there isn't, sadly. You need to export the item description for the track and use something like Subtitle Extractor (http://spedr.com/1o5gw) to do this for you.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Do you have a chapter marker around the 7 second mark? Does the chapter *before* that one have an end jump set in it? If so, remove the end jump.
If not this, can you give some more details about the way you've set this up? Are you seeing this in simulator, DVD Player or on a set top player?
If you can run a test, add a second track to the project and add your asset to that track and see if
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I may be wrong, but does Handbrake only export to mpeg4?
You should aim for MPEG2 elementary streams, that is audio and video separate, not muxed together as a program stream would be.
DVDSP will easily accept MPEG2 and .mov files, so you should be able to go from QT at least.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Are you trying to create a multi angle disc or a mixed angle disc - i.e are you running the alternate angle for the length of the original footage or are you ahveing only a few sections here and there as an alternative section for the viewer?
Getting these right requires you to be particularly exact in how you create your footage. For example, the two clips must be an exact GOP structure, leng
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It's not behaviour you can alter, but you *might* work around it...
If you create a short track with the graphics for the menu in it, or indeed make a track the menu itself, using buttons over video, then you will have the last track played as the menu track. Being in a menu and pressing the menu button will therefore return you to the menu track - looks identical, and whilst there will be a p
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
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