Alex Alexzander
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Oh they can absolutely make a glass master. And there are a couple ways to do it. One that will yield a perfect result, and one that will not. So unless the replicator wants the extra work, which is not what they do, then you’ll be mass producing +R DL discs and I hope they warn you as such.
What they can do, is take your +R DL DVD and copy it’s contents to the hard drive and then pre-master it to DDP and set the layer-break with either DVDAfterEdit or Gear Pro Mastering Edition. At that point, they have removed the +R DL media as the mastering source. Of course, in this case, they are now making the choice as to where the layer break is going, and that’s not really their call, unless you ask them to do such things.
It’s added work, and if they do such things, perhaps they will charge you for their time and effort.
My opinion is, if you use a PC, and the software you use doesn’t allow you to create DDP images, then buy Gear and do it yourself. If you have a Macintosh, then DVD Studio Pro can write DDP images right to the hard drive and that can be used as a mastering source. If you want a more robust solution on the Mac, then buy DVDAfterEdit Mastering Edition. I have tested the heck out of this new version given to me by the new sole owner of the company, and it really does work. They really nailed the pre-mastering side. It’s so easy to use too. It’s actually worth having just for the mastering side of what it does. I may keep an 867 G4 Mac with a SCSI card and DLT around just to write DDP images to tape and set layer breaks.
-Alex Alexzander
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Do not replicate a DVD+R DL. You’re just making copies of DVD+R DL discs for the masses.
You should master to DLT tape, or DDP image. Either one of those is a far better choice for mastering than any DVD recordable media. DVD+R DL is especially bad for masters. Stay away from it.
What authoring application are you using?
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I use Verbatim. A lot of people can’t play them, but a lot can. I just bought 7 more players, but I have not had time to open the boxes and test them. when that gets done I’ll report models and the like.
-Alex
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Sounds like some kind of strange wear and tear. Perhaps the environment they are in?
-Alex
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Is this a DVD-R or a manufactured DVD?
-Alex
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It was an ASUS P4P800SE with a Pyro PCI 64.
Again, this is not anywhere near as robust as on a dual xeon with a split bus. I have heard of others getting away with running a mojo on a board it shouldn’t have run on as well. One even on an AMD.
Hope that helps.
-Alex
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I have to look it up, as I don’t do it anymore. and there is a gotcha to doing it. I’ll look for the old box and explain how I did it back then. I’ll add that later tonight.
What I remember was it was an ASUS, and I had to turn on the Mojo first, and then power up the computer. If I didn’t do it that way, the mojo would never work. I have the box somewhere.
-Alex
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Mojo would likely work if you simply captured DV to an internal drive, and had no other FireWire drives in use while the mojo is connected. I’ve run a Mojo on a P4 running at 3.2 GHz in that way.
That being said, if you want to do more than DV, and require more storage beyond that single internal drive you have, you’re going to need a motherboard that supports more than one independent bus. It’s best to buy the HP or the Dell that Avid recommends, but if you must build, then perhaps the X6DAE-G2 is the best board out there. It’s almost exactly the same as the board used in the Avid spec’ed HP workstation.
This board offers the independent bus architecture you would need to run a Mojo, and external storage. You’d be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements of 1:1.
even building the box on your own, it will likely cost you at least $2k for the hardware needed.
-Alex
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Here is a review / tutorial I wrote to illustrate how eDVD works. It’s very basic, but give it a read, and then see if this all makes more sense to you. If not, just write back to me and we’ll go from there.
-Alex