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Re: Recommendations for Mic Preamp - 15 years agoTo Travis, Wayne, and Andy -- thanks for your advice. It will be enormously helpful. Wayne, the Sennheiser stick I referred to is a studio quality mic (similar to their MKH 418) commonly seen dangling over actor's heads in movie studios. The quality is there. That's the reason for my interest in improving the crappy interface I currently have between that and my Mac. I'll check out all yoby Bob Rice - Café LA Recommendations for Mic Preamp - 15 years agoRan this query past the rather quiet Soundtrack forum with no replies. I know I can do better with the brilliance that populates this one. I'm getting ready to assemble a voice recording set up. Budget is limited, so I can't go crazy, but I also need excellent quality voice recordings. Though most recordings will be for podcasts, many users will have decent quality headphones when they listen.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Optimizing photos for HD import - 15 years agoThis topic has been fun. Never have I seen so much energy poured into something so irrelevant. Cool. Bob Rice Frameworx Mediaby Bob Rice - Café LA Recommendations for mic preamp - 15 years agoI'm getting ready to assemble a voice recording set up. Budget is limited, so I can't go crazy, but I also need excellent quality voice recordings. Though most recordings will be for podcasts, many users will have decent quality headphones when they listen. Hum, static, thin voices, and otherwise crappy audio won't fill the need. I have a studio quality mic (Sennheiser stick is one of them) alby Bob Rice - Soundtrack Pro Re: the menu button - can you have variable destinations? - 16 years agoJesse, to add to John's suggestion, you can assign remote Menu button destinations in the Story connections. I do it on most of the DVDs I create without a hitch.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Dropped frames - 16 years agoJohn, from the information you supplied, I haven't a clue. That might account for why you have no replies. Can you fill us in on what you see happening, under what conditions, your equipment, etc.? Perhaps then we can help.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Track Current Chapter - 17 years agoHi Taylor, I haven't tried this but it might work. Select the track in the Outline. Then, assign the appopriate menu to each chapter marker using Connections. When doing so, assign the chapter marker to the appropriate button. I'm not sure if that will show that button highlighted (and ready to activate) or if it will activate it. Give it a try and see if it works.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Subtitle font issues - 17 years agoNot sure what you mean by "screwy." You will often see something less the pretty when using the viewer in DVDSP. Have you checked the result on a screen after a build -- TV screen if that's your viewing target? If it's still "screwy," you may have a font issue to rectify. Have you tried a different font to see if you get a similar result?by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Subtitle export - 17 years agoI'm running DVDSP2 and the answer there is "no." Current versions might have added an export capability. One possibility is to look for a utlity that strips subtitles from a DVD. I ran across a PC program last year that did that. I got rid of it when I realized it didn't do the things I really needed very well. I can't remember what it was called but it's out there. If you have acceby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: nothing selected on a menu - 17 years agoFrancois, First Play is precisely how the "Blockbuster" videos start to play as soon as you insert the DVD into the player. DVDSP by default assigns Menu 1 as First Play. If you make no changes, that menu will automatically come up on the screen when the DVD is inserted. If you want something else to come up first - like a video teaser or trailer - you can assign that asset as the Fiby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Video Bit Rate too high - 17 years agoHere's a follow up to what I found. I did include the audio files in my calculation of file sizes, so size was not an issue. And my single menu is a simple still, so again, size is not an issue. I know all bit rates were encoded at my standard settings (and DVDSP shows it in the inspector on each of the files as 4.9 MB/sec), so I know the encoded rate is okay. Then I tried eliminating cby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Video Bit Rate too high - 17 years agoI've checked the FAQs and wasn't able to find an answer to my specific situation. I have a series of videos encoded to MPEG2 using MegaPEG Pro SD. I'm using the exact settings I've been using for months without a hiccup. Now I'm getting the Bit Rate Too High error on build. I know the bit rates are okay, because I've built about 20 DVDs using these same settings. I considered that perhaps mby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Professional DVD Authoring - 17 years agoUnless you seek some esoteric operation that DVDSP can't deliver, then DVDSP is fine. The biggest distinction between the Hollywood productions and what are produced using "lesser" systems is found in the quality of the encoding. When you start with film and use the very best systems from transfer to video, and finish with a top end encoder, you get the best visual result. No amount ofby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Slideshow - 17 years agoNot sure if this would work, but you could look at setting up the photos on a track, assigning a chapter to each with infinite delay, and using buttons in the subtitle track. Sounds convoluted and probably won't work but worth a shot. This is not a menu, but might give you the button control you seek.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: real-world HDdvd and blueray??? - 17 years agoWhat do you mean by "coming out?" Is you video "in the closet?" Not sure what you're asking. Are you trying to go from a DVD created in DVDSP and then to HD? To create HD in DVDSP? Might be able to help when we know better what you want to do.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: wmv export problem - 17 years agoBetween RealMedia and Quicktime you can both play just about anything out there on a PC. Also, the most current versions of Windows Media Player can play the self-contained Quicktime Movie if you place a .DV extension on it. Sometimes.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Formatting... the device is not supported for the requested burn operation - 17 years agoTO Lola and DH. The files got there because DVDSP put them there. DVDSP is also smart enough to not include them in either the burned DVD or an image file (if you happen to build to the HD instead). Lola, ignore everything in your log list except for the final three lines... Writing files The device is not supported for the requested burn operation. The device is not supported for the rby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Testing a DVD-9 project when all you have is a DVD-R drive - 17 years agoJohn's suggestion may be the closest you'll get to meeting your need. Go ahead and build the DVD, just don't burn it. Then test it using DVD Player directly from the hard drive. If you just gotta test it on a disk and you're not willing to equip yourself properly to create what you need, then... SOL.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Avoiding that low-res-jaggedy-edges-stripy look - 17 years agoMat, the short answser is... no. You already touched on part of the problem. Your graphics are at a resolution that is quite a bit less than you computer screen. TVs have a far lower resolution, so 720 wide graphics will apprear without all the jaggies. I find that some graphics fall apart more than others when created at the exact screen resolution. Graphics I create at double the screenby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: clips won't return to correct menu - 17 years agoHow the DVD reacts to pressing the Stop button depends on the DVD player. Some will pause in place and wait for you to hit Play, then resume playing where you left off. Some will immediately jump to the beginning of the existing track. Others will jump to the beginning of the disk (First Play). The only way I know to prevent this confusion is to disable the Stop button in the Track Inspector (Useby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Skipping tracks - 17 years agoTaeloe, that's a behavior that can vary depending on the DVD player. Some players may continue the chapter numbers and times consecutively. Others will reset themselves to zero (chapters and time) when switching tracks. It's something you might not be able to control. Perhaps someone has a scripting solution that can make all players interpret these actions the same in all cases???by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Creating AC3 audio from AIFF - 17 years agoCompressor 1.2.1 uses A-Pack as a separate application. Launch A-Pack. On the right, select the number of channels and bit rate you want. Then, drag your AIFF file to the appropriate channels on the left side of the window. Tell each channel what it is (left, right, etc.). Press Encode and -- finally -- change the name and location to what you want. A few more steps than I like, but it worby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: encode @ 15 Mbs sec ? - 17 years agoFrancois, if you intend that your only viewing audience will have a Pioneer V8000, then you could probably get away attempting to create a DVD at 15MB/Sec. That number is outside the internation DVD spec, which I believe is somewhere near 9MB. (Someone please correct me on that.) If you want your DVD to be usable by a wider audience using standard DVD players, then John's advice (6.5MB averageby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: subtitle techniques and aesthetics - 17 years agoI find simple Geneva to give a good, readable look. As far as outline, box, or shadow, it depends on what you're covering. Closed captioning houses typically use a black box, so that it remains readable no matter what's behind it.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Importing video from a server - 17 years agoBack to your original question, Smitty... yes you can bring video files from a server with no loss in quality. As per the prior replies, the quality will match the format. If you're importing a low-quality image, it'll stay that way. If the server contains high-quaility videos in high-quality formats, those will be fine. It all goes back to silk purses and sow's ears.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: DVD Player Chapter & Track info - 17 years agoEvery player is different. You'll need to check the owner's manual to find out... or just experiment with the player's setup menu.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Subtitles - 17 years agoEasy, if you prepared your subtitles externally and imported them into DVDSP. Otherwise... you're more or less out of luck. I'm not aware of an easy way to export subtitles from Studio Pro. I'm using V2.0, and more current versions might be able to do it.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Aspect ratio problems - 17 years agoJay, when you brought the anamorphic footage into DVDSP, did you set the timeline as anamorphic first? If you set it after importing the footage, you can get this result.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Black bars at top and bottom of footage after extraction/re-insertion... - 17 years agoSean, just scroll to the right in your assets list. The "size" column is there, along with rate, type, and a few others. You may be right about Cinematize being the culprit. Good luck finding the solution. Bobby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Black bars at top and bottom of footage after extraction/re-insertion... - 17 years agoSean, did you check the Size column in your asset list? It's possible that the video dimensions aren't exactly what you expect. At least you'll be able to see what DVDSP thinks they are.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro |
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