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Can you say more about how you want the pause to appear?Is it simply an unlimited stop waiting for more user action, or is it a specific timed pause at a certain point during playback... ?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
720x540?? sounds like a non-standard dimension (ratio 1.33??). Check if they mean 720x576 or 720x568. Bitvice will allow you to create 720x544, which is as close as you'll get, but you won't multiplex with BitVice (unless that's been added recently).
Square pixels are almost always used for computers... rectangles are what are used for video. What is the intended output for this footage?
Mu
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The best Mac based tool to give you information about an MPEG2 file is Digigami's 'Mpressionist'... but it isn't free or cheap. It will give you a lot more than the basic encode settings and may well be overkill for what you are looking for. I don't think there is anything else which will come close, and there is no easy way to tell what the actual settings were.
As for your compressor custom
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
You've probably got your answer now from the Apple forum, but in case you ahven't, what you do is create the images a a background for the menu. You make the small bars for each as a single overlay file (just the bars in the overlay) and import the background and overlay files into DVDSP, adding them to a menu. You then draw out a button rectangle over the highlight bar AND over the background im
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
As John said, this is not absolutely necessary any more, however it is still a reliable way to send your projects for replication.
To use this option you need a DLT drive and these are invariably SCSI based, so you'll also need a SCSI card. I have an old G4 running an Adaptec 2930U SCSI card, and an old HP SureStore DLT IV drive which works fine... slowly, but reliable. There are faster drives
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Blimey - that's odd!
Have you tried trashing the preference files, repairing disk permissions and so on?
Have you by any chance got some font management software running? Have you turned off any of the system fonts that DVDSP uses?
What is the spec of your mac?
As for the transitions - if you import a piece of footage to use as a DVDSP transition then you'll lose all audio - if you ne
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
FCP questions are probably best answered in the FCP forum, but for what it's worth, isn't it the 'Flop' command?? It's been a while since I looked for it, but I think its in the filters under 'perspective'. You can flip the image vertically or horizontally, or both, as I recall.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
There are no audio controls in DVDSP, you have to edit the levels outside, using whatever app you like and then re-import with the new levels.
Try setting the audio level to -12db, whcih is much nearer where your overall audio levels should be.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
In later versions it is a scripting command - 'last item'... however I'd recommend using a more robust scripting method to ensure that you get back to the last menu.
In brief, use scripts to assign a value to each menu and lodge it in a GPRM. As you change menus the value should change accordingly. When using the menu key, go to a final script which looks at the value stored in the GPRM and ju
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Try recreating the menu and then deleting the original menu. Also, try quitting the app and re-starting it, and finally try quitting the app, removing the asset physically from it's location and then re-opening the project. If it really *is* in use, DVDSP will prompt you to search for it, and you can opt to 'continue' without doing so.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Not sure about the age thing, but you can definitely set the disc to automatically start playing back your footage after a period of time.
Click on the menu (which is likely to be your start up item) and check the property inspector. In there you'll see an option ' At end'. Set this to 'timeout' with a duration of '0' or '1' and then use the 'Action' drop down to specify what you want to have
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Compressor, QT and DVDSP all use the same compression engine, so if you can't do it in one, you won't do it in the others either... Compressor is the most sophisticated of the three, of course.
You should look at alternative encoders - they are not free, though. Have a look at Bitvice and MegaPEG.X for two good Mac based ones. However, the best encoders currently are PC ones in the same price
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I agree John - there may be more to this than just the issues with the simulator, however, there are enough glitches in simulation to mean that it can't ever be that accurate. For example, layered menus and button clicks, prev and next jumps and so on... The use of 'Play' and 'Enter' in simulator are good examples, too.
To be fair, it *does* do a pretty good job, but I still say that to get th
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
It could well be that the players you are seeing this on are not able to hold a still image in memory (such as that is) for long enough to allow the transition footage to be 'found' by the play head. DVDSP creates quite a complex series of routing tables and bounces navigation all over the place before it sends you to the correct domain on the disc where your footage actually is. This is a featur
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Try building this to a real disc and testing it in a DVD player... you should find that it works as you want. Simulator is not an accurate representation of what will happen on a set top box or other computer, it is only really a guide.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
You're up against a limit of DVDs in general here Taylor - the brief answer is that by using the next/prev jump at track level you disable the timecode display. You are left with workarounds only, I'm afraid...
Can you place all of the assets in one track and use stories instead?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Check your preferences - you can set DVDSP up to encode in the background as you work, or encode on build. The two machines might well have different settings...
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
There are two things to think about here - if you are using a photoshop layer based menu then no, you cannot add audio at all. If you are using a layered photoshop file to create a standard menu, then yes, you can add audio!
So, it depends on what kind of menu you are creating - a standard menu is one with a background and a simple overlay. A layer based menu is one where you have lots of laye
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The way to do this is to use SPRM7, which tracks the last chapter played in a track.
All you do is set up a short script to get back to the menu, then use a GPRM based button jump working from SPRM7. Assuming you are going to the correct menu...:
mov GPRM0, SPRM7
Jump Menuname
If you have entered chapter 11, then GPRM0 will get a value of 11... and send you back to the menu and land on
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Another option would be to get a tool like 'Subtitler' (check version tracker) or Belle Nuit and do the job there, but in Excel there are several ways.
One possible way would be to convert everything to frames, so 1:47:21 would actually be 1800:1410:21 (assuming 30fps). Add these together to get 3231 frames to remove. You would then do the subtraction and split the timecode back out to mins an
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Speed of burn is a very likely candidate, as is the audio bit rate. Did you compress the audio to AC3? If not, then you have a 6Mbps video file with a 1.5Mbps audio file going through a player on a writeable disc... this represents a fairly high overall bitrate, and you'd be better off compressing the audio to AC3 to reduce it.
As a rule of thumb, when using recordable media, keep the overall
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Hi Carl - when you say link the menu button are you referring to the button on the remote control handset? If so, click on the disc icon in the disc outline view (or the background in the graphical view) then look in the property inspector for the remote control section there, and ensure the 'menu' setting points where you want it to go. If you only have one menu then this will be set correctly b
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Have a look at the surface of the disc - has anything been written to it? Does this disc play in any other machine? Is it a +R or a -R disc? Can your G4 desktop play a +R disc?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Not quite sure what the issue here actually is - you'll be working with PAL footage after you have converted it, and you'll need to make PAL sized menu assets, too.
Set DVDSP to work as a PAL project and import the assets in exactly the same way - all else is identical, it's just the actual format/frame rate that changes.
For what it's worth, I'd be looking to shoot in PAL as well, but the
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
This is the same as your other question, so briefly I'll just say that the first button (default button) on a menu will appear as selected when you view the menu in a DVD player. If this is the only buttons that you have got then you'll never see the normal state...
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
LOL - the title and action safe overlays an be turned on or off in DVDSP using the settings drop down box... but that won't help if they are actually burned into your footage or image!
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
How about opening that text file in something like Excel? You should be able to very quickly manipulate all start and end times using some simple formulae, and then re-export as a text file. You should be able to then import the result into DVDSP...
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
This could simply be a matter of it being the default button on the menu, or the only button on the menu.
The default button is generally the first button that you create - when you navigate to any menu that button will be in the selected state automatically. You can get around this if you really want to, but it is good practice to leave it alone! Viewers will be accustomed to seeing at least
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Totally agree, John - I was just pointing out that it can be done if you have the time and can invest the effort into learning about the inner workings of a DVD. It also *wouldn't* involve de-muxing and the associated loss of quality when you use a tool such as DVDAE... however, it is certainly not a simple job, nor one for someone who finds DVDSP a challenge to use.
I think it is important to
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
When you build and format to DLT or to your hard drive from DVDSP then DDP and CMF options will appear in the dialog box. Simply select the one you need and off you go...
If you have not got a DLT device attached, try writing to a disc image and using that.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
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