Dual layer DVD in Avid DVD / Sonic DVDit

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Dual layer DVD in Avid DVD / Sonic DVDit

Posted by Paul Allen on May 3, 2011 at 5:42 pm

Hi,
I’m looking to produce a dual layer dvd in Avid DVD but can’t for the life of me find any useful information on the process involved. How do you decide where the layer break occurs for example? Do you hzve control over this? Any advice or tutorials would be really useful.
Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Allen replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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Peter Groom
May 4, 2011 at 8:50 am

Im afraid I dont know, and find the lack of info / tutorials and AVID support a little frustrating. its like theyve spat out this software but no one really wants to take ownership of it!

Clearly you are looking for answers to your specific issue, but lets use this thread (with your permission) to collate the web locations for ANY AVID DVD resources ??

https://community.avid.com/forums/t/82401.aspx
There are many of these (at least 1-11)

Im actively hoping to find more!

Cheers
Peter

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Paul Allen
May 4, 2011 at 11:59 am

Cheers Peter. That sounds good to me – any tutorials would certanly be useful. I think one of the problems is that the same software has a few different names so it falls between two stools.
Cheers,
paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Peter Groom
May 6, 2011 at 8:30 am

HI again
Have you tried making a dual layer disc and seeing what if any menus pop up that are context relevant (ie only appear when dual layer dvd is selected in the drop down box between DVD DL DVD and BLu Ray etc.?

Peter

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Peter Groom
May 6, 2011 at 10:14 am

this tutorial is worth a look too (although it doesnt help with DL breakpoints specifically
https://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=aviddvd/aviddvd.swf&width=640&height=520
Peter

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Jeff Greenberg
May 8, 2011 at 12:39 am

From reading what the manual says, it looks like it’s automatically setting it on a random I frame – I don’t think you can specify it.

Best,

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Paul Allen
May 8, 2011 at 9:32 am

Hi Peter,
Yes, I had a similar thought but when I go through the menus nothing seems to come up asking about layer breaks. Haven’t actually gone as far as burning a dual layer DVD as yet though so will see what happens when I do that. Dual layer DVDs are in the post so will let you know how I get on…
Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Allen
June 5, 2011 at 9:17 am

Thanks a lot Jeff,
Paul

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