HVDVD_TS and SDDVD_TS folders???

[Michael Sacci]

You started the project as an HD project. You need to redo the project as a SD DVD.

[Esther Casas]

mmmmm…I actually started teh project as SD DVD!!! not HD..
I just double checked..is set up to SD in the Project preferences settings…and when I go to build/format and try to choose an SD folder in the” DVD Studio Pro documents”, the SD is not there..!!?

[Michael Sacci]

What does it say in the Inspector when you when have the disc selected? (click any of the empty gray part) The preferences do not reflex have you have but what you will have.

[Esther Casas] “when I go to build/format and try to choose an SD folder in the” DVD Studio Pro documents”, the SD is not there..!!?”
I’m not following you here.

[Esther Casas]

I don’t know what is supposed to say in the inspector…when i click on the sequence it shows the “video clip” window…with the size file etc and clicking the track it shows the “track” window with res and display mode..

I set the resolution to 720X480i, is that a problem? should i set at 720X480p?

[Michael Sacci]

The inspector changes depending on what you have selected. You need to select the Disc, you do this in graphical view and click on the gray background. Then Disc is be displayed in the top of the Inspector, then what is the DVD Standard set as.

[Esther Casas]

ok, i just did what you said, it’s set to “video standard” and it doesn’t let me put DVD SD on DVD standard, i can’t edit that. why?? the project is set to SD DVD…

[Michael Sacci]

Ok, I’m not trying to sound harsh but your project is a HD DVD project, somewhere along the way you clicked on that settings. There is NO way back to SD, you have to rebuild the project.

You need to be a little more precise about your descriptions, they don’t make sense. Nothing is “SET” to Video Standard, Video Standard is a line description and the setting is either SD or HD DVD, after it is set to HD DVD it becomes grayed out because you cannot change it back to SD.

Once again your project may have started out as SD but it is now HD, which can have both HD and SD material in it, but it will not play on a standard DVD player anymore. How did it change, you got 3 options, 1) you unknowingly changed it at some point. 2) someone else came in and changed it on you. 3) the program did it all by itself. #3 is highly unlikely.

No shame in making a mistake, we all do it, in fact I think I made one a couple of years back. 🙂

[Esther Casas]

YES…sorry if i am not so precise with my explanations, you are right,i should be more careful!!
well…I made a new project as before set to SD DVD, and when i go to burn I still get the same message:

“The Build Location folder contains a HVDVD_TS folder(HD DVD content). You must remove the HVDVD_TS folder from the Build Location in order to proceed with Build/Format of a Standard DVD project.”

I just checked what you told me and now for sure is SD DVD NTSC. no mistake on that now.

so…why do I get this message and why I can’t find the SDDVD_TS folder??

sorry if I am still here…I am startin gto get a bit frustrated..

[Michael Sacci]

Can you not just change the destination of your build. Or do to the place that you are point to now and delete the HVDVD_TS from the finder?

Almost there.

[Bill Stephan]

The previous project built in this copy of DVDSP was an HD-DVD. Now that you are trying to create a DVD, DVDSP can’t do the build until the HDDVD_TS folder left over from the previous project is deleted from the Build folder. Jusr delete everything in that folder, and you will be good to go.

Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City