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Just to be sure - turn off any tape compression system on the DLT device and make sure there is also enough free space on your hard drive. DVDSP needs to create a temporary image of the disc as it goes along, and if your hard drive is getting full it may not have enough space to allow that to happen.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Check online bitrate calculators such as the one here:
Which will tell you that for 225 minutes you'll be compressing at 2.5mbps, which is really very low if your source footage was shot on miniDV. With a better quality source and a decent hardware encoder or use of a decent multi-pass software encoder (Cinemacraft) you *might* approach acceptable levels. Your audio will need to be AC3 at
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I would do this with a few scripts, but you could also do it with a few duplicate menus if you wanted to.
When you get to the audio selection screen, you could pick a button and go back to an identical looking menu, except the 'play movie' button would be loaded with the correct audio stream to play (use the property inspector to select the audio stream). So, picking 5.1 takes you back to a me
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The over riding barrier in this is your friend's TV... the player should be able to cope. A lot more newer TVs are able to work with an NTSC signal, but some just don't, or offer only limited output (mostly B/W, etc).
Check which model TV your friend will be using - or recommend they watch on a computer (where formats don't matter).
Finally, the region code for over here is '2', but if you
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I bet this is a FCP reference/render file issue.
There have been numerous reports of this - what happens is that a reference file is used in an earlier project and once completed the reference/render file is trashed. Unfortunately, DVDSP has it listed in the 'recent projects' list and cannot find the file to re-create the project. Therefore the list of recent projects cannot be populated, and
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The above advice is good, Ryan.
This project will need careful planning, but is ultimately very achievable with DVDSP - I have done several similar.
A DVD has a theoretical maximum of 10,000 menus in all, but as John says, it depends on exactly where in the structure you place them. You can also use tracks as menus, and if you want to re-use some menus (i.e. a splash screen saying 'Correct!
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
You could think of it that way, yes. When you stop a disc and then re-start it, different players will do different things (great when manufacturers interpret the rules, isn't it?).
The thing is, using the stop button is meant to stop the disc playback, not stop the track playing like you would think (it doesn't work like a tape player or CD player in this respect). If you then press 'Play' an
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
James - even the mighty Scenarist is not able to link different title sets without first sending navigation through the VMG, as that is what the DVD Spec says is what must happen. I think what you are referring to is the ability to place more than one title inside a title set... yes, that would be possible.
I guess this will need further explanation, but there are four main domains on a DVD:
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
The track is almost certainly going to be the one at the top of your list in the outline view. This is because the menu button acts as a resume button as well, except when you have finished a track there is no resume location to go to. Instead, the player defaults to the first VTS it finds, which will be the fist track you created (or placed) at the top of the list.
What you can do is add a ne
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Probably the best way to do this would be to use buttons over video and not embed the URL into the marker.
With BoV you could set the subtitle to last for a certain amount of time and in it use the text 'Click for web site' or whatever. This button would then go to a mneu which immediately activates an @ccess link.
Remember though that DVD@ccess is not the most robust and cross platform co
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
That's not a bad idea, John. I'll have a go at it and see what I can do...
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
A DVD is not like a CD... and the timeline is not like a FCP timeline. A track is in fact a video domain and can hold many clips one after the other. Different tracks are completely different domains that exist without reference to one another. You cannot link material from one track to another, and the correct name for a track is in fact a title set. This is all deep DVD ju-ju and references the
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I'm not sure this is a DVD issue...!
If I am using screen capture software (Snapz Pro 2, by the way) I would save this as a QT file. This can then be used in FCP and written out to tape. You can do the same in iMovie as well, if you wish.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
There could be a simple answer for you, but is this a DVD issue or a FCP one (or Motion, come to that)?
Are you trying to animate an arrow on a menu? A little more info would help here!
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I'm a bit late to the party, but have you seen Alex Alexzander's book about designing DVD menus? There is a lot of information available to help you.
In brief, I use larger fonts (about 20pt minimum), sans serif where possible (not always, some folks like script styles for menus... especially 'arty' ones) and avoid using hot colours like full white, red and blue... although blue does work bett
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
If this footage is going to be part of a track before the main menu appears then you are absolutely going to want to encode it to MPEG2 before you import it to DVDSP... *if* you want to keep control over the quality.
DVDSP will encode for you, but you'll have no say in the quality other than to set the bitrate. Personally I'd encode externally every time and know I am starting with good assets
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I'm sure it's possible John... but it seems a lot of fuss when you could use DVDAfterEdit! You should be able to add the CSS flag and write to tape from that app just by having the Video_TS folders on your hard drive.
But, like you, I've never had to do it - I write to tape pretty much all of the time for serious work, but write to disc when doing simple stuff or one-off's.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
There are a couple of things to consider here. First is the use of the Stop button when watching a disc - it will stop the disc running... that is, it will stop what you were doing and return to the start of the disc, which in your case is menu1.
This is NOT the same on all players, so you cannot rely on it. You are far better off just using the menu button to go back to your menu. To get back
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Paul - I use Sonopress regularly and they are worldwide. The service is second to none, IMO and they have a base in the US. Of course, they are a top line outfit and costs are likely to be a bit higher, but ultimately you will find no damage to your reputation from either flawed discs or dubious business practices!
There are tons of replicators 'out there'... some better than others. Do a goog
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Adolfo is spot on (as ever!), but one small warning about using subtitles for displaying graphics is worth saying...
If the user fast forwards whilst the subtitle is showing then it will disappear, only to reappear when the next marker is encountered after playback resumes. If you use a graphic in the lower corner for the menu display and only use two markers for it then you run the risk of t
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Just to add to what John said, DVDSP is itself a QT based application, and you *can* use .mov files as your track asset. However, when you do, DVDSP will encode it to be MPEG2 when you build the disc and will use the settings in your preferences.
To have more control over the encoding process you have to use an external app like Compressor, or invest in a better encoder such as MegaPEG.X or BitV
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
You need to make sure that you hvae enabled @ccess links in the DVD Player application AND DVDSP preferences. You also need to be very precise with the URL THAT YOU USE.
To timeout a menu, click on the menu in the outline view, look in the property inspector. Look for the end action and set this to 'time out' and enter a time (in seconds) to be what you want.
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Yep - they are just warnings, not errors. In fact, warning is a bit misleading... they are messages to let you know that certain files will not be included in the final build. Those files are created by DVDSP and shouldn't be in a video_ts folder at all, so it removes them and lets you know it is doing so.
They are completely normal and nothing at all to worry about!
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
he he... I was going to point you to that, depending on whether the menu was in the outline view or not!
It can be useful when there are a lot of menus in the project cluttering up the space and you only want to see the tracks, but by and large I don't really use the graphical view that much anyway - I also sometimes lose things in it and find I am scrolling around looking for them, although the
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Is there a menu in the outline view when you start the app?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
In the settings for DVDPlayer, have you got the button to disable the Dolby dynamic range compression checked or unchecked?
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Hmm.. without seeing this it is hard to say, but it looks as if you need to trim the footage in FCP a bit.
Are you putting the still into the track before the footage? If so, does the footage play OK without the still? (You could add some slug in there to move it along the timeline if you need to).
You could also go back to FCP and add the still to the timeline there and export the entire lot a
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
Frank - I often put stills in menus before the movie... it should work as planned. I also often put stills in the track before the footage (or instead of footage)... it seems to work for me here.
What I think you need to do is take the end jump off the chapter marker - you will normally progress through a DVDSP track without having to add these jumps because of the way the track is created by DV
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
DVD@ccess is notoriously poorly supported on the PC platform. There are a number of factors, linked to the huge number of different possible pieces of hardware and software that PC owners can install.
A more robust option is to use eDVD on the PC to author the links. Far more PCs already have the Interactual player installed and the links will work more reliably. On a Mac the player would need
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
I would usually suspect the cheapest part of the chain... ;-)
Have you tried again with different media? If it works, your drive is fine... but the media isn't playing nicely!
If it doesn't work, then run some hardware tests, or simply replace your burner (they are getting so cheap now as almost to be disposable... what a wasteful society we soon become).
by Hal MacLean
- DVD Studio Pro
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