[Achille Lalonde]

Michael ,
thank you for your response.

With respect to “a little time with the manual”, please forgive my ignorance, however despite the year i spent in film school , and hours of recent online tutorials, i am regrettably still not much of an under the hood kind of guy… i am a one man “studio” with no budget for technical assistance, therefore here i am at The Cow…

You indicate …
“You are still making a HD DVD, even with SD assets a HD DVD will only work in a Mac.”

thanks for that tip… discovered i had neglected to re set preferences for the DVDSP.

with respect to GOP settings;
In my last round in Compressor 3.5 i used that QT movie as source, and selected “DVD:Fastest Encode 90 minutes”. I have compared the summary from my saved .compressor file and the summary for a fresh job with the same settings (using same source file from FCP). Line by line i see no difference between the default settings and those from my saved project. With respect to your specific reference to my GOP settings i see no difference whatsoever (unless i somehow inadvertently changed the default settings).

Your response brings up a further question; with respect to DVD-R as compared to DVD+R… why is one preferred over the other, is it a matter of a more universal compatibility? (i have started to research this question a bit, however if someone had a definitive answer or thread you could point me to i would greatly appreciate it. As is usual on the web i find despairing information on this topic from various sources. On that note i appreciate this forum has some solid foundation behind it, with reputed long time contributors.

cheers,
achille

achille lalonde
independent film maker
Nelson, BC, Canada

[Achille Lalonde]

addendum to my post re DVD not playing on tabletop machine

it was burned on two different brands of DVD+R media… is this an issue?

cheers,
achille

achille lalonde
independent film maker
Nelson, BC, Canada

[Achille Lalonde]

I had the same issue as reported in this thread so i went back to compressor, and generated an SD version which i brought back to DVDSP

imported the new asset and generated a new dvd, which still doesn’t seem to want to play on standard DVD player

would greatly appreciate some support as i spent days trying to do this simple task before even discovering that HD DVD was a dead format

cheers,
achille

attaching logs from both compressor and DVDSP

from Compressor 3.5 batch monitor log

Stream Type: MPEG-2 Video Elementary
Frame Dimensions: 720×480
Frame Rate: 29.970030 progressive, pulldown from 23.976025
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video Format: NTSC / SMPTE 170M
Chroma Format: 4:2:0
GOP Pattern: 12/3 closed IBB
Rate Control: 1-pass VBR 6200000 bps target, 7700000 bps max
Motion Estimation: +l2orig+l0mbloop+smoothing+pnofield+bnofield

from DVDSP 4.0 build log

Note: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the ‘HVDVD_TS’ folder is not a DVD-Video file and will not be included in the final disc or DLT.
Start formatting
Formatting as Standard DVD
Simulation mode is off
Lossless linking is on
Number of layers is 1
Doing side 1 of 1
Playable in region 1,2,3,4,5,6,8
Disc size is 12 cm
Disc has no copyright material
Writing UDF 2.50 structures
Writing files
Writing final UDF information
Formatting finished.

achille lalonde
independent film maker
Nelson, BC, Canada