DVD Software

[Andrew Mehta]

Hey – I appreciate the reply.
Am used to importing in graphics and such like, and used to create cool linear flash animations using pre-prepared bitmap sequences, so importing images from an art programme sounds right up my street, =), and I should take to that like a duck in water, so that’s pretty exciting for me.

There’s a programme on my Mac called A.Pack or something. The icon makes it look like it’s audio related. I wonder if that would help with AC3 conversion? Hmm…yeah, it seems to be an AC3 audio encoder programme in the DVD Studio folder, although unlike DVD SP, it looks like I have both an OSX version and a OS9 version.

I can boot up DVD SP 1.1 and see what its requirements are.
Ahh…the PDF manual states is accepts PCM, MPEG Audio, and AC-3 audio.

Wooooaaaahhh…..looks like I have an OS9 programme called Astarte M.Pack 3.03 for encoding MPEG1 and MPEG2 videos for DVD.
Any knowledge on how this compares to BitVice/Compressor, or will I just have to experiment and find out?

[Floh Peters]

[Ajmetz] “Wooooaaaahhh…..looks like I have an OS9 programme called Astarte M.Pack 3.03 for encoding MPEG1 and MPEG2 videos for DVD.”

Astarte was the company who developed DVDStudioPro before Apple bought it. So I guess this is the software that was rebranded as Compressor later.

[Bobby Mosaedi]

word on the street here is that bitvice is the best way to get media100i video files converted to MPEG-2 for the best quality, color reproduction, etc. again you have everything you need already to do what you need to get going, so if you get fed up with the results astarte is giving maybe you get bitvice.

i dont think bitvice has released a universal version yet, so i would maybe hold out until they release that so if you end up getting a new CPU or something it will work on your new equipment and be optimized to take advantage of intel chips.

also a.pack will do your ac-3 conversion. i think its as easy as dragging and dropping your audio/video file and hitting encode.