Andrius Simutis
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DVD and BluRay have different menu systems even though they have to share the same buttons on the remote. In DVD land, the MENU button goes to the Menu space while TOP MENU goes to the Title Menu space. In BluRay land only the TOP MENU goes to Menu space, while the MENU button activates the PopUp menu. Don’t have a popup menu on there, do you? Time to make one! If you don’t want to have a popup menu, I suppose you could make a simple popup menu that has an invisible auto activated button that jumps back to the main menu that you already have. I think you’d be better off with a popup though since they’re actually a pretty nifty feature of the BluRay spec.
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It’s so hard to tell on the internet. We’re both having a laugh here, right?
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Michael, Don’t get so upset…it was meant as a lighthearted jab at the vagaries of the Setup Menu. Of course all engineers are brilliant. Of course anyone who doesn’t know the correct key combination to bring up the DVD setup menu (only valid while a disc is not inserted) is completely at fault for not having their discs playback correctly. Of course, anyone who didn’t read all 460 pages of their owners manual would never know that this is even needed. Of course, anyone who is unable to properly calibrate their playback device does not deserve a DVD player.
Further evidence of the engineering department’s brilliance is the fact that no two remotes can share a common button layout or even call the same functions the same thing. That would be too easy for those stupid consumers who actually buy these products. -
I suppose it would since the player wouldn’t “know” that it’s now connected to a 16:9 HD set and would still be putting out that lovely letterboxed image. The TV on Auto could default either way, and who can parse the thinking of the engineers who set those menus and defaults? I’ve found that they just as often default to the last setting I would ever want.
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I recognize this is a month old, but if anyone is searching for a similar problem, here’s my $.02:
There’s a good chance that your client has taken their old DVD player which was connected to their old 4:3 tube TV and just plugged it into their shiny new HD set. If they used an HDMI cable, the player and TV would be fine. If they used an analog cable then the DVD player has no idea that it’s now feeding a 16:9 set and so it’s outputting a letterboxed image like it always did but the 16:9 HDTV is seeing a 4:3 input, so it’s boxed on all sides. Your client saw this and pushed the dreaded ZOOM button to fill the screen. Now you’ve got a 720×360 pixel image magnified up to a 1920×1080 pixel screen…yuck. -
If you need “top notch professional quality” have you considered going to a professional? There are still people out there who specialize in compression and authoring.
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HD DVD was a short lived format that didn’t make it and isn’t really viable anymore. HD content on DVD was an even smaller subset within that spec. BluRay content on DVD is possible with some major caveats, as you’ve just discovered.
If you have to deliver to a client you really can only go with standard def on DVD or Full HD on BluRay recorded to a BluRay disc. It’s just not worth it to mess around with any of the dead or kindasorta almost supported formats. Buy an external BluRay player bundle from the VideoGuys and you’ll be making real playable BluRays in no time. (If you’re going to do advanced menus/popups/subtitles/etc or try to take your project to manufacturing, well then we’ll be seeing a lot of you on the forums).
If you’re just doing this purely for your own amusement then there are a few tutorials on the internets that will walk you through what’s possible in more detail. -
no. The button highlights on a dvd must be static.
As an alternative, you can take the original shot in AE and stabilize it there. Not the same thing as a little motion, but at least it’s an option. -
You mean 720×480, right? That’s the NTSC resolution for all SD DVDs.
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Are you sure you want to do that? There’s much better options that don’t take away your hot shoe.
LCDVF is magnetic and $150
Zacuto has a baseplate or a sticky frame that works great, though it costs more $375
I tried the hoodman and didn’t like it, to put it politely. I wound up with the Zacuto though I had reservations over the cost, but now I have no regrets and highly recommend it over the others.