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Re: Other DVD programs? - 18 years agoDVD Studio Pro compares very well with Adobe Encore, which is its' main competitor (PC only). Encore doesn't have ANY scripting support, which kind of rules it out for pro work, right? I would like Motion to export DVD SP highlight maps, in the way After Effects does that for Encore (but Motion embeds loop point markers, which is really cool). Also, as far as I have seen, Encore doens't support mby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Burning DVDs - 18 years agoThere's an application called PatchBurn that adds support for unsupported drives. Do a google seach for it. Of course, "use at your own risk". I must say, however, that the Sony burner you mentioned is very likely to be natively supported in Tiger. What OS version are you using? If you want to use Toast, select "hard drive" and "IMG" in DVD Studio Pro's format dialogby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Please help a rookie with Compressor! - 18 years ago"What do you think of his suggestions? I mean the ones in the end of the article where he suggests that PAL people first export as QuickTime and then drag the QuickTime file into Compressor? " Kris: Exporting a Quicktime file before going to Compressor is in my opinion always a good idea. But not for any PAL specific issues (I live in a PAL country, btw) but because calling Compressorby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: need help from multiclip to multi angle DVD - 18 years agoCraig: If I understand correctly, you have in Final Cut Pro an edited piece where you switch between two cameras, right? That would be the edited piece or angle 1. So, first export the whole timeline and that you use that as angle 1 in DVD SP. If you have all the edits in track 1 (V1) in FCP, you can then copy all the clips to V2, select them and in the contextual menu (control-click the clips)by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: button hot spots - 18 years agoRegardless of your what type of screen you're targetting, NTSC and PAL for DVD are ALWAYS rectangular (except 16:9, of course, which is "more" than rectanguar). Also, as another moderator (don't remember who) recently said, note that DVD SP's design tools (canned buttons and shapes) are good to get you started, but you will surely get better results if use the "pro" workflby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Please help a rookie with Compressor! - 18 years ago"1. Do I still need to thrash preferences in FCP or Compressor? I mean, I have the latest versions I believe? Are these problems still not corrected by now? Since I am new to this I am totally paranoid about deleting anything since I fear that might remove something I will need later". If you don't experience problems you don't have to delete anything "2. For the version I alreby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpg2 made in compressor looks bad - 18 years agoDave: I don't see Compressor 2 broken for 2 pass VBR, or anything else. As I wrote many times before, though it may not apply to you, people who are dissappointed with MPEG-2 from Compressor usually are not dissapointed with Compressor but with MPEG-2 compression itself. Of course, there are pros who make good points about Compressor not being reliable at mantaining average data rates, for exampby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD SP4 Monitoring - 18 years agoRobert: DVD SP 4 added this feature, kind of. It only works with the video output of a graphics card like the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition or similar. Probably the new 9600 Pro Mac and PC Edition does that too, for less money. You need an after market, Mac compatible AGP card with a S-Video output port. Once you have that, you can turn on external monitoring in the preferences. Unfortunately,by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: mpg2 made in compressor looks bad - 18 years agoChristoph: 6.8 Mbps is a rather high bit rate. As you probably discovered, there's a threshold in MPEG encoding, after which quality doesn't get any better. If you are experiencing problems in the dissolves, you might solve it by forcing I frames (compression markers) in the middle of each dissolve. You can do that in either FCP or Compressor. MPEG-2 uses an interframe compression scheme, were frby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: How to choose language menu - 18 years agoNicke: As far as I know, SPRM0 is a read-only parameter. it does makes sense that they don't let you modify something the user chose. That setting would remain changed after the user finishes using your disc and that doesn't seem fair, does it? Also, you have of course every right to try your way, but bear in mind that you wouldn't really be relying on the user setting the player. I bet 99 per cby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio Pro 4 and Layer Breaks - 18 years agoThe closer you get to filling the disc, the harder it becomes to find a suitable marker (because layer 0 needs to be bigger that layer 1 in an OTP disc). There's a rather painful way of finding out where the layer marker could be placed. In the Video_TS folder, you'll find that the VOB elements are in the same order as in the outline tab. You can add the file sizes if all elements and figure outby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Importing Psd File Into DVD Studio Pro - 18 years agoIt's difficult to tell exactly, but you have to remember that DVD SP supports the feature set of Photoshop 5. Any elements that make use of later features (layer effects or styles, vector shapes, etc) will render wrongly. If you're using that kind of features, you will have to force PS to rasterize them (one way of doing this is merging that layer with an empty one). Also, DVD SP apparently handby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD SP3 Keeps Crashing - 18 years agoYes, re-install video applications, including DVD SP 3. Ideally, before doing that, you should carefully remove components from past installations. You can find detailed docs on how to do this on Apple's support site. Sorry, don't remember where exactly.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Compression Marker Question - 18 years agoJust to make sure, you have to choose "compression" and not "chapter" as the marker type, right? I never had a problem with that. They have to be timeline markers, not clip markers. You can also add the compression markers in Compressor itself. Any unnamed marker you add in Compressor's Preview window will be an I frame afterwards.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: How to create overlays with the studio box - 18 years agoIf I understand correctly what you ask, then yes, Motion is perfectly capable of producing overlays. John is right that it wouldn't be an orthodox way of using it. But you know what? Photoshop is not really needed needed for the more common overlays (text highlighting itself, lines under the buttons, a geometric shape next to or behind the button, etc.). More than that, if you use a motion graphiby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: the question is still pending - 18 years agoGreat post Hal, as always. "This is the major fault with v1 - it introduces spikes which cause bitrate too high errors within DVDSP and the spikes are unpredictable." Frankly, I didn't have that problem at all when using AC-3 audio. I always believed the spikes were only a problem when using PCM ("AIFF" audio, right? "Oh yes- the 'other reasons' for buying a Mac... let'by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: the question is still pending - 18 years agoHal, I respect enormously your opinion but I don't completely share it. I have the impression that many threads in forums about Compressor's output (and the search for alternatives) don't come from profesisonal users like yourself with valid issues, but from people who are probably more dissapointed with MPEG-2 as a technology and assume that Apple/Compressor's encoder must be the reason. It usuaby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: the question is still pending - 18 years agoCompressor 2 is a totally professional application. And IMHO Compressor 1.x was too. Contrary to popular belief, Apple's MPEG-2 encoder is actually better than several commercial software encoders. There are betters too (as always), but overall it performs better than packages costing serious money. So much so that I will hardly agree with the idea that you need a commercial alternative. You canby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: easiest way to have buttons select audio streams or tracks? - 18 years agoOh... No and YES. No, you can't have the same menu change to a different audio. Yes, you can do "twin" menus, and when the user selects the audio you target an identical menu with different audio. If you have motion on the menu, there will obviously be a jump in the animation/video when you switch (because the other menu will start from the beginning). Nothing you can do about that.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: advantage of menus versus buttons over video - 18 years agoI don't know if it will look strange, but you'll get 2 GB of menus It's up to you to construct an aesthetic jusitification for that (and it will only look letterboxed on 4:3 screens!) Without having read much about it yet, VTS editing in DVD SP 4 should allow you to overcome the 1 GB limit. In theory, you just would have to group the exceeding menus in a second VTS title. All this said,by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: easiest way to have buttons select audio streams or tracks? - 18 years agoNo scripting needed at all. Each button has to perform a "set audio stream" command. For instance, button 1 could set audio stream to #1, etc. This is done in the inspector, with the button selected. Also, there HAS to be a jump assigned to the button (you could target the button to itself, or you could return to the main menu, whatever you want). Finallly, you can see, it's importantby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro re: Oversized project -- how to make smaller? - 18 years agoYes, you can just change the audio files and you'll be ok. Just make sure that you export with the same duration. In fact, this is what you could do: take the AIFF files that Compressor or DVD SP produced, and encode those to AC-3. Bear also in mind that all AC-3 files you use for menus have to be encoded with the same bit rate.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro re: Oversized project -- how to make smaller? - 18 years agoActually, 72 minutes at 5.1 Mbps should fit fine in 4.3 GB as long as you convert audio to dolby digital (AC-3).by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: easiest way to have buttons select audio streams or tracks? - 18 years agoI don't understand the question. You want to know how a button sets an audio option, or you mean the right button is highlighted when you enter the audio menu?by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: advantage of menus versus buttons over video - 18 years agoJeremy: The main thing you would loose is multi-language menus, or at least the official way of doing them Bear in mind that the 1 GB limit can be expanded if you do a mix of 4:3 and 16:9 aspect menus. You would then have 1 GB for 4:3 menus and another GB for 16:9 menus. Also, I understand that the VTS editing feature in DVD SP 4 allows you to overcome the 1 GB limit too, but I still haven't tby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro DVD SP 4 in LAFCPUG meeting? - 18 years agoHey all! Since I am 15,000 miles away... anybody would like to tell me about the May 25 LAFCPUG meeting on DVD SP 4, with Brian Hoffman and Bruce Nazarian? How was it? I really would have liked to be there.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Two Feature Questions about DVDSP4 - 18 years agoMark: A quick Google search revealed options like the DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder, from DTS (www.dtsonline.com). Are you already aware of it? It has a Mac version that works with any G4 or G5 computer loaded with OS X 10.2.8 or higher. There is also a Mac only network version, specially designed for seamless integration with Xserve. And yes, DVD Studio Pro does support 24 bit / 96 Khz DTS fiby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Printing Multiple DVDs - 18 years agoFantastic. Very interesting indeed. I wouldn't like to look at your ink supplies invoices, thoughby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Any problem with PDFs on DVDs? - 18 years agoI don't know what you mean exactly but here are two guesses. One possibility is the PDFs don't have a real background and that's why they appear with a black background. Or, they are taller or wider than the screen, so DVD SP fits them with a surrounding background. I would open them in Photoshop, resize them for video size and make sure there's a white (or whatever color you want) background andby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro Re: Any problem with PDFs on DVDs? - 18 years agoNo problem, Scott. Select the disc in the outline tab and that will show you the general disc properties in the inspector. There, in the inspector, there's an item called "DVD ROM folder". It will allow you to navigate in your hard drive to pick the right folder. When you build or burn the project, the DVD-ROM folder will be included.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro |
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