Arky
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It very much depends on what your authoring system is. Spruce DVDMaestro and Sonic (Daikin) Scenarist are capable of Karaoke DVD authoring, for example.
John.
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Here’s one offering:
w*w.optibase.com/Content.aspx?id=1681
HTH
John.
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Unfortunately, you weren’t very thorough with your description. When you say you can’t get files to play from the flash drive, do you mean you are attempting to play them directly from the flash drive, or copied to the HDD (and then played) having used the flash drive to transfer the assets between computers?
There may be an issue with transfer rate if it’s a USB flash drive and you are using a USB1 USB port, although even then one would expect this to be adequate – USB1 is ok for burning CDRs at 4x, quite comfortably, for instance.
On a broader note, I have noticed that certain programs simply don’t like flash drives (I don’t claim to know why). DVD SP, for instance, will often choke if you attempt to multiplex a project directly to a flash drive.
Please give more details!
Regards,
John.
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An anti-flicker filter (or a fine blur) will reduce any shimmering due to interlacing fields showing, or failing to show, those detail pixels which only exist in one set of fields or the other.
HTH.
John.
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Hi John,
I am currently accessing the net on a PC so old it can’t play your sample clips(!) but one thing immediately strikes me about your original post – you said:
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I-frames: 15
B-frames: 2
***************I believe therein may lie your problem – while a GOP length of 15 frames is reasonable (i.e. the distance BETWEEN I-frames = 15), if you have actually set your MPEG encodes to contain SEQUENCES of 15 I-frames (and it’s difficult to know whether you have unintentionally given me that impression, whether your encoder settings dialogue actually refers to distance BETWEEN I-frames of ’15’, as per your setting, or something else), then your bitrate, even at 9000kbps is going to be woefully inadequate to populate your encoded MPEG stream with so many I-frames.
Please check this and get back to me!
Kind regards,
John.
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Nero does this easily. Just choose ‘DVD-ROM (ISO)’ from the wizard.
Regards,
John.
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…I didn’t ask you if your DVD project is intended for replication, or just for home viewing on DVDR. If it is for replication, then, much though I admire DVDLab, it would be unwise to choose DVDLab for this purpose, at the present time, because DVDLab is not (yet) fully Spec’-compliant. I don’t doubt that it will get there, but we are discussing the here and now. In which case, if replication is your eventual aim, you would be wise to go with DVD SP. DVD SP is incredibly easy to use, anyway, so don’t be intimidated by it. Just make sure you begin with decently-encoded Video assets (as discussed earlier) and decently-encoded Audio assets (A-pack is great for .ac3 audio encoding, incidentally – no nasty surprises to be wary of, there, thankfully). Having said that, if you’re authoring just for your own enjoyment, then by all means use DVDLab – it’s a great program for the money, with some innovative features.
Regards,
John.
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Actually, in hindsight, I should have mentioned that BitVice does a very respectable job of MPEG2 encoding, on the Mac platform, and I do have a certain amount of respect for this encoder. I still favour CCE, by far, though.
John.
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BTW, Compressor shares several components with Quicktime Encoder. I really recommend you encode on the PC, to be quite honest (just transfer the assets as .mov DV or Uncompressed files, for example, using a firewire HDD).
FCP itself is fine, IMO.
John.
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PC: http://www.tecoltd.com/bitratev.htm
Mac: http://www.digigami.com/mpressionist/index.php
I would strongly suggest that you avoid Compressor if you want to save yourself a lot of trouble when authoring DVDs, at least until Apple sort out the continuing issues with it. DVD Studio Pro, though, is great – I use it myself.
Any time you create a .m2v stream with Compressor, ALWAYS run it through one of the above programs (or similar) to check for bitrate spikes.
If you use a PC anyway, then I highly recommend using CCE (‘Basic’ or, if you can afford it, ‘SP’). They are both superb MPEG encoders and produce properly-compliant .m2v streams for DVD authoring.
Regards,
John.
(‘Arky’)