exporting for DVD studio Pro – Please help, i’m Lost

[Walter Biscardi]

[Mike Armstrong] ”
I’m currently editing a film. The client wants it authored to a Dual Layer DVD (DVD-9).”

We did a Dual Layer disc two years ago and it was required to be delivered on two DLT tapes with a proper layer break point. You need to contact the replicator to find out exactly how they want the project delivered and where they want the layer break point to be.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Holmes]

Mike

You might want to try the DVD Studio Pro forum if you’re looking for specific advice on compression settings. Are you looking for general advice on exporting using compressor?

Ben

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[Ben Holmes]

[walter biscardi] “We did a Dual Layer disc two years ago… “

I’ve delivered DVDs for authoring on DVD-R 9’s recently – the availability of dual layer media and writers means most duplicators can take a DVD as the master, and DVD SP will allow you to create it and deal with the layer break itself. Get’s rid of all that nasty DLT nonsense…

I got the impression the question was more in the vein of “how do I get this movie to MPEG-2 for DVD creation”. Otherwise the answer is going to be a really long one.

Ben

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[Mike Armstrong]

“I got the impression the question was more in the vein of “how do I get this movie to MPEG-2 for DVD creation”

exactly!

I can author it with dvd studio pro (i am dvd-9 capable).

i just don’t know the best way to get it to dvd studio pro

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Mike Armstrong] ”
exactly!

I can author it with dvd studio pro (i am dvd-9 capable).

i just don’t know the best way to get it to dvd studio pro”

Just export a quicktime reference to Compressor. Select the DVD Setting of your choice. High Quality, Normal Quality, 4:3, 16:9 and compress. You’ll get an MPEG-2 and AC-3 audio file to create your DVD.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Mike Armstrong]

oh.

SO it’s just the same as with a normal DVD – I thought that because it was a Dual Layer, there would be something different at this stage.

Thanks!

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Mike Armstrong] “SO it’s just the same as with a normal DVD – I thought that because it was a Dual Layer, there would be something different at this stage.”

I would still check with your replicator on the Layer Break. Not sure if that is still as important as it was two years ago.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Rennie Klymyk]

Dual layer is only touchy if your bit budget is near filling the disc. If that is the case you will have trouble hiding the layer break. If you have 10 or 15% free space left on your disc after ALL your assets, DSP will actually give you mulitple choice as to what chapter you want the break.

Before encoding you only have to worry about bit budgeting to get everything on the disc and don’t worry about the break point. The only reason to preplan at this stage would be if you had a Part 1 and Part 2 and were trying to keep each section seperate or Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and wanted 1, 2 and 3 on one layer and 4 and 5 on the lower layer (this way the layer break happens at the end of an episode when it jumps to a menu or at least probably a fade up on the new episode). You always should try to have more data on layer 1 than layer 2 because if you run out of space on layer 2 the disc is failed.( You might as well run out of space first on layer 1 and save some time).

You can previsualize on the FCP timeline by looking at the chapter markers at the 1/2 way point and just beyond. All your menu backgrounds and other assets need to weigh in but you will probably get a feel for where you would like the break to be based on the amount of data just beyond the 1/2 way point on the timeline and then what your own feelings are about the chapters in that area. You could do a fade to black and an audio fade maybe where you go from a night scene to a day scene or where there is a major change in the movie like you go from the Serengetti to an office in Manhatan.

There are also 2 types of breaks you can use, fast (harder to notice) or reliable but easy to spot (unless you do an AV fade out). Look up layer break in the DSP index, the manual covers it pretty good and it isn’t complicated or as long winded as my post.