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Re: Over lay in dvdsp4 - 17 years agoThe only way I know of is to place your logo on the subtitle track. Then force the subtitle on so it shows regardless (rather than on only when selected by the user).by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Chapter markers 'Play All' - 17 years agoThe simplest way that I know probably means stepping back a bit. It sounds as if you set each marker to return to the menu, which is fine for what you accomplished so far. To get double duty out of the markers (get two different results), you can shift the control to stories instead of the markers. Leave the markers in place and make sure their delay is set to none. Create a story for each butby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: simulate ok, built successful, video_ts folder playback freezed, so is the burned DVD; DVDSP Pro please read, and please help... - 17 years agoYou can jump track to track using stories. Use a separate story for each track. Set up the end jump of one story to jump to the start (or whatever point you want) of the other story. The user won't be aware that you're using more than one track.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Can I run DVDSP2 on 10.4 - 17 years agoI'm getting ready to install the latest OS. I purchased the new FCE HD to take advantage of a few "necessary" pieces of candy. Knowing that OS upgrades sometimes bring surprises, will I be able to run DVDSP2 when I install the new OS? Will I need to upgrade DVDSP as well? (I'm not interested in the "fun" or "practical" reasons why I should. It does everything I nby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Blank DVD Quality and Ratings - 17 years agoThanks for keeping us up to date, Koz. The list changes little, but we have a lot of new users who aren't sure which media are best for their needs.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: creating 16:9 menus?? - 17 years agoYou set the display mode in Preferences (under the "DVD Studio Pro" pull-down menu).by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Playback oddity in DVDSP - 17 years agoTom, not sure I'm going to be much help. First, you can encounter many "oddities" in simulation. Did you try a test build to see if the same thing happens in DVD Player? Second, I'm not sure what you mean by the clips failing to fade in but remaining black. Do you mean that your videos were edited with a fade at the beginning or are you asking DVDSP to do that for you? By remaininby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: fixing blownout / white shirt glowing.... in the video - 17 years agoYou can also try the Highlight Shadow filter from Lyric Media (free, so the price is right). It does a decent job of knocking down blown out areas without pulling down highlights everywhere else.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: will I get better playback results in DVDSP rather than iDVD - 17 years agoYou tell Compressor to create it. Or if you have an older version of Compressor (as I do), use A.Pack.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: good cheap downloadable music? - 17 years agoA few others are royaltyfreemusic.com, royalty-free.tv, musicbakery.com, freeplay.com, uniquetracks.com.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Monitor calibration... - 17 years agoI faced a similar problem when I first switched to LCD. It's a hair-puller. One trick I used was to record some color bars and spit those out to mini_DV. I played that from my camcorder on a TV that I "calibrated" using the bars. Then I set my monitor along side the TV and adjusted my LCD until the result was close to the TV. And close was the best I could get. Still sucked, butby Bob Rice - Café LA Re: to process large tiffs through photoshop first, or not to process? - 17 years agoSpeed is always affected by larger image sizes. The larger sizes give you more options as to motion before the images begin to fall apart. It's a tradeoff. Try a couple and see if it's something you can live with.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: will I get better playback results in DVDSP rather than iDVD - 17 years agoEpp, when you say the DVDs have trouble playing back, do you mean skipping, unreadable, hanging up, or what? Assuming you're using the same burner and same brand of disk, there should be no technical reason why you would see a difference if the disk are produced to the same specs. One possible reason could be the bit rates. If you're using AC3 audio and/or lower bit rates in your DVDSP projectby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD and archiving - 17 years agoPerhaps a hundred years if protected properly. Perhaps a hundred seconds if your grandaughter gets her hands on it. A bigger question is whether the technology to play it will still be around for your grandaughter to use so she can play it 30 years from now. How many homes still have reel to reel tape machines? -- and I have boxes of tapes that are still (I think) playable.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: How do I make a disc restart at a menu instead of a track? - 17 years agoThe Stop button is your killer, and what it does depends on the DVD player. Depending on the player, hitting stop may: - Wait for you to press Play again, then resume where you left off. - Wait for you to press Play, unless you hit Stop again, then it resumes at the beginning of the current track. - Send you straight to the beginning of the current track - Send you to First Playby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: dvd looping chapters - 17 years agoMichael, give iDVD a shot first. If you have no luck getting the kind of output you want, drop me a line. (You can see my direct email address by clicking on my name in the Posted By line). I create a lot of DVDs in DVDSP that include stills that must pause infinitely and advance on a click. I'll help if I can.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: ghosts maybe? you be the judge... - 17 years agoI took a look Wayne, and to me it could be dust (or something that flaked off the ceiling of a very old building). Other possibility is an artifact in your animated border. Take a look at your border separately (placed over a dark, solid-colored background) and see if the "orb" doesn't appear there as well. Both "orbs" also are moving in generally the same direction, perhaby Bob Rice - Café LA Re: how to keep rich blacks when doing "build" in DVDSP3 ? - 17 years agoForget what they look like in the simulator. You can use Quicktime to view the m2v files. That should show you the same thing you'll get when you do the build.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Photoshop overlay won't align with background buttons - 17 years agoI had the same experience recently. I solved it by doing essentially what John suggested. I made the background image as exactly that. Then I created a separate layer for the normal state buttons and duplicated that layer for the other states. Do not merge the normal state buttons down with the background. Keep them as a separate layer.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Format DVD-9 to 2 Single Layer DVDs - 17 years agoOne other thought is to check with your DVD-9 vendor. Perhaps they have suggestions on how to solve this. I'm sure you're not their first client who wanted to send DVD-9 content on DVD-5 disks.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Format DVD-9 to 2 Single Layer DVDs - 17 years agoI'm curious how you do this as well. My understanding was that you needed to output to DLT for a DVD-9. I'd love to hear how to do it without the investment in an expensive DLT drive.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Mac help ain't helpin: how do I network my old comp w/ new one to move my stuff? - 17 years agoKoz's suggestion is a good one, but might be more drastic than you need. Before putting yourself through that, try simply disconnecting everything, shutting everything down, restarting, then reconnecting. That might be enough to wake up the system. If not, then do the surgery.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Mac help ain't helpin: how do I network my old comp w/ new one to move my stuff? - 17 years agoI've also done this successfully by simply restarting without the T key. The two Macs seemed to sort things out on their own.by Bob Rice - Café LA Re: Quick Q.: how many minutes of sound and vision can fit on a DVD-5? - 17 years agoKit, I did a similar project a couple years ago and squeezed on about 190 minutes using Compressor set to 2.5 avg/5 max. If you set the max level lower, you can probably get 225 minutes. The visual result was sickening to me, but the "client" (an internal group) was delighted that they didn't have to deal with two disks.by Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: from DVD SP slide track to DVD SP slideshow - 17 years agoNick, I'm not sure what you're asking. I'll give it a shot. It IS possible to convert a slide show to a track. It is NOT possible to convert a track to a slide show. That said, it IS possible to set up a track so that it behaves similar a slide show. To do that, you drop your slides or graphics onto the track. Then place a chapter marker at the beginning of each graphic or slide. Setby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Chapter markers added in dvdsp - 17 years agoThe markers won't do anything unless you tell them to. For example, you can assign an end jump to each chapter, telling it to jump back to the menu at the end of the chapter. You can also tell a chapter marker to wait infinitely. When the DVD gets to the end of that chapter, it will pause and wait for you to do something with the remote -- e.g., press Next to go the the next chapter on thby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Help - 17 years agoIf you plan (or are able) to do MPEG-2 encoding on a PC (if you MUST!), I can also recommend the TPMGEnc from Pegasys. It does a great job of noise reduction (if that's an issue with your project) while minimizing blur effects. If your source is clean, stick with Compressor. It seems to give slightly more consistent colors, while TPMGEnc is better at noise reduction than anything else I've trby Bob Rice - DVD Studio Pro Re: Voiceover tool in Final Cut Express - 17 years agoAny reason you're not plugging the mic directly to the Mac? I've done several VOs that way and the result is fine.by Bob Rice - Café LA |
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