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Re: DVD Audio Levels/A.Pack Encoding - 18 years agoRobert: I am by no means an audio mixing expert. Far from it. But you see, the whole problem you discribe is the very reason why we have meters. Basically, before you even begin your audio mix, you want to choose an audio refererence level. I don't mean placing it on the timeline or using it any concrete way, just choosing it. Then you want dialog to be around that reference level. Notice thatby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: NTSC footage to PAL conversion and settings? - 18 years agoCompressor 2 is completely capable of doing it. It does standards conversions with extremely high quality. But also with extremely long encoding times, unfortunately. I mean, really, really long encoding times Bring your source material into Compressor. Pick the encoding preset you would normally use. For example, 90 minutes high quality 4:3. Then, go to the video tab and change the standard frby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Looping audio in a PSD Menu for SP3? - 18 years agoJohn: Some jedi is playing a mind trick with you Of course DVD SP 1.0x supported non layered menus. And yes there was the drawing of the button. What DVD SP added in this area are button shapes, button styles and the ability to type text directly, ie, kinf of a translation of the concept for begginners. But mantaining the old manual technique for those use it. Please go back for a minute to tby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: PSDs and NO AUDIO LOOP - Waaaa - 18 years ago"In closing, what you're saying is, we're limited to rectangled shapes with color and opacity settings as our "Button States" if we want audio in the background to loop." No, I didn't say anything like that. You can have any shape you like, as long as it is square. No, I'm just kidding! You can have any shape you like, really. But since you're using something similar toby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: PSDs and NO AUDIO LOOP - Waaaa - 18 years agoGeno: 1) Nope Nope Nope I mean, you absolutely can have looping audio and get rollovers change as needed. We all do it everyday! 2) Read this: technically, the graphic doesn't change at all. Why? Because the overlay mode (more properly called "highlights" is not part of the "video" or "graphics". Think about this: how do you think you can turn on or off the subtitleby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Looping audio in a PSD Menu for SP3? - 18 years agoIt hasn't changed and it won't change. It's not a DVD SP limitation. You could say it's a limitation of DVDs in general, but that wouldn't be an acurate representation. The truth is that layered Photoshop menus don't exist at all in the DVD specs. DVD Studio Pro does a clever trick, where it basically creates several menus for the different states, so that they switch from one to another whenby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Directors Commentary Track - Audio question - 18 years agoThere's no specific Director's commentary function. For practical purposes, you do it as if it was another audio language. Audio track 1 has the regular mix, track 2 has the director's commentary. That's it. In the manual you can look for the section about working with different audio languages.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Squeezing image to 16:9 in Compressor - 18 years agoWell, Hal. A letterboxed widescreen source blowed up to fill a 16:9 frame... anybody will expect that to look pixellated. Compressor has surprising technology to achieve that conversion, and I did get good results for that. But if it's not satisfactory for you, I woudn't blame the encoder. While I believe that Compressor is currently as good or better than the other options you mention, they pby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Squeezing image to 16:9 in Compressor - 18 years agoI can't help you with the percentages because when I needed to do this, the areas was clearly dictated by the 16:9 bars. I just cropped it manually to the 16:9 area. That won't work in your case. You can anyway try 5 second test, to see if you find the right crop percentage.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Directors Commentary Track - Audio question - 18 years agoIt doesn't work like that. The Director's commentary is not a separate voice over track. It's a whole mix, including the voice over. So the viewer switches from the ordinary mix, to a mix that includes the commentary. Hope this helps.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Squeezing image to 16:9 in Compressor - 18 years agoHal The historic answer would have been "no". Because, as you surely know, resizing beyonds a source's native scale destroys resolution. And what you want to do means taking a partial section of the image and blowing it up. But Compressor 2 takes advantage of very modern and sophisticated technology that converts this historic "no" into a "yes".... as long as you'reby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Audio Levels/A.Pack Encoding - 18 years agoHey, Robert. You're likely experiencing Dolby's dynamic range compression. While it's a long story, the following will surely take care of turning off Dolby's Dialog Normalization. In A.Pack, make sure to switch the compression profile to "None" (From "Film standard". Then set the Dialog Normalization Value in the main window to -31. Not only you don't want to raise the volumby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro re: Compressor vs. DVDSP encoding? - 18 years ago"You said that hardware quality compression could be achieved within the software Compressor program" Did I? Wow. I'd rather say "close to hardware quality" or "near hardware quality". But don't worry. It certainly is up to a "professional" level. This is of course such a big topic, impossible to cover in one, two or ten messages. Since we (you and I) dby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: The DVD Studio Pro Manual is 683 pages long. What are the essentials please? - 18 years agoJack: If you think about it, most of us are in a similar situation. Let me explain: some of us have been lucky enough to get paid for doing some sort of creative work. But I firmly believe that in most cases that's a consequence of how much we love doing it. We would probably do it one way or another without the pay. And we actually do, because so many pieces are created in our spare time, for arby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro re: Compressor vs. DVDSP encoding? - 18 years agoIs it possible, unbelivable as it may be, that he's called Derek Mok too?by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro re: Compressor vs. DVDSP encoding? - 18 years ago"I have the impression that by "build and burn" DVDSP operates a "second compression" " Nope, it doesn't. "Build" means multiplexing and... "building" the DVD structure. No second compression at all. Derek: As for your question: Compressor uses the same core technology, but with much deeper control over the parameters. Heck, it can even produceby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: The DVD Studio Pro Manual is 683 pages long. What are the essentials please? - 18 years agofilmman: Of course we all have the right to think differently. Let me offer another perspective. If for you learning about the tool you use for creative work is a burden instead of a pleasure, then there's a chance you're probably in the wrong profession or at least you could have the wrong approach. Of course, I don't really mean that about you, please take it just as an extreme, something thatby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: HD-DVD format on a DVD-9? - 18 years agoIt's true - it's speculation. But I would call it educated speculation Blue laser is required to fit more information, not to understand the disk structure, formating or codecs. Apple says it will work, so let's hope it will. It would be an interesting alternative.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: HD-DVD format on a DVD-9? - 18 years agoYes, the HD DVD media is different, but I wouldn't rush to the conclusion that an HD-DVD authored disc recorded on a standard DVD-5 or DVD-9 media won't work. While I can't check the compatiliby of such a disc, the fact that HD-DVD players are backwars compatible with current DVD discs suggests that it is *likely* to work.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: text over picture - 18 years agoSuperdude: Even if you managed to overlay the subtitle for the whole duration (which you can) you'll find out that subtitles use a very low resolution overlay technology and it wouldn't look good. Compressor 2 has a filter called "Watermark" which allows you to overlay an alpha bug on top of your video, which it adds at the MPEG-2 encoding stage (using Compressor to do that is a goodby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpeg-2 conversion time? - 18 years ago"I think it's a lovely idea that they added the Compressor package with all of its bells and whistles, dogs and ponys, filigries, etc. etc, but why did they have to *remove* the old MPEG2 Export option?" Because, given you use the right workflow (as Elizabeth could check herself) it is much better. The old encoder was actually worse, not just in evident stuff, but also in the otherby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpeg-2 conversion time? - 18 years ago"Or is it that coming from FCP introduces another software layer in the workflow that slows down the process?" Hello, DH. In a few words, yes. That's exactly the reason. Actually you (and others) may be suprised to read that Compressor doesn't compress anything by itself! Compressor is just an empty user interface for a system wide encoding service. FCP has to "feed" the souby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Why are my DVD's not playing smoothly in some players? - 18 years agoCamille: that kind of skipping can happen for several reasons. One possibility is that your bit rate is too high, probably because you're using uncompressed audio. If you convert your audio to Dolby Digital/AC-3 (using A.Pack, since you have DVD SP 3), it will help a lot. When you use PCM/AIFF/DV audio, the audio part just takes a very big piece of the available data rater. Other than that, yes,by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: sound problems in AC3 - 18 years agoDid you remember to set the Dolby compresson profile to "none"? The standard is "Film standard compression". Of course, the term "compression" here is not used in the sense of digital file size reduction, but rather points to dynamic range control, ie, the distance between loud and soft spots in the audio. Seems related to your problem, right? Also, make sure your mby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: menu overscan - 18 years ago"Firstly, what settings should I use to export the stuff from FCP (I did read the previous thread on this, but am not too sure it really answers my question, as it was more geared to exporting for the web) and secondly what should my settings in DVD SP be" It could be a good idea to export a Quicktime movie, using current settings. Then import that in Compressor 2, and assign one ofby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Menu emergency! - 18 years agoMarla: I took some time before replying, because it's one of those questions that are hard to answer I am not even sure I undertstood correctly what you need or want to do. First of all, chapters (unlike what you suggest) are not conventionally used as "mini tracks" (play a short segment, then return to menu). They are more a way to start playback from certain point to the end, amongby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: can you make fixes/swap the QT and keep the same menu without a redo? - 18 years agoHello, Maria. Yes, it will work. You just have to make sure that the new file is in the same location and has the same name. Compressor encoded files have long names, difficult to replicate. One thing you could do in that case, is in the finder, copy the name and paste it as the name for the new file (won't work if they are already in the same location!).by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpeg-2 conversion time? - 18 years agoElizabeth: Diskwarrior is fine, but not as important as it used to be. Don't abuse it. It's more like an emergency thing when you have a hard drive crash. Since Panther, Mac OS X uses a technology (journaled volumes) that's really good automatically mantaining drive integrity. What you could do is Repair permissions in Disk Utility. Long to explain why it's needed, but trust me, it does help. Youby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpeg-2 conversion time? - 18 years agoElizabeth: Glad to read it worked for you. Just in case: DVD SP's bit rate settings only apply to Quicktime files you import, so that DVD SP encodes them either as a background task or at build time (your choice). MPEG-2 files are already encoded (with Compressor or your tool of choice) with the bit rate you picked there, and DVD SP's bit rate settings have no effect on them. I hope that's clear!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Games - 18 years agoDo you have the original projects for the games? If so, you could export each track as an item description and then import those into the new project. If you don't have the projects, you will need a demuxer program (like FFMPEG) to extract the tracks and convert them to elementary video/audio streams you could import in DVD SP.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro |
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