Bill Stephan
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Sam,
Unfortunately compatibility between Blu-ray players and recordable BD-R or RE stock is not universal. A firmware upgrade on the player in question may solve the problem. Try the disc in several players to see if it is a player problem.
Also very high bitrates on recordable discs pose a playability issue on Blu-ray similar to what happens on DVD-R discs.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Daniel,
First step is to copy the Video_TS folder to the root of the USB drive. To use the USB drive as a DVD substitute on a PC, you need to do a drive substitution, which makes a directory appear as a drive to the operating system. Type Windows+r and type “command” into the run window. Hit enter and that opens the DOS command interface. Type “subst Y: E:/” — substitute any unused drive letter for Y, and substitute the actual drive letter assigned to your USB drive for E. Hit enter, and any DVD player software should play your USB drive same as if it were a DVD disc inserted into a DVD drive. You can even have multiple DVDs on your USB drive by copying each Video_TS folder into its own directory. Then you do a drive substitution for each folder.
I don’t know if there is any way to do this on a Mac.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can import individual .wav files for 5.1 surround in Compressor, but I never tried it with stereo. (Most of the .wav files that come here already have 2 tracks for stereo.) If there’s no way to do it, then drop the two files into either Soundtrack Pro or Final Cut Pro and send to Compressor.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Lt/Rt is Dolby Pro Logic 1 or 2. Dolby PL-1 format has 3 front channels plus 1 surround channel. Dolby PL-2 format has 3 front channels plus 2 surround channels. In both cases, the .1 (LFE) channel is optional. Dolby PL is fully compatible with stereo applications.
When you encode your .ac3 audio file, select Dolby 2.0, and look for the settings “not surround encoded/surround encoded/not indicated.” Check “surround encoded.” You can do this in Compressor or in any other Dolby encoding application.
When played through a surround audio system, you should hear surround content, although it will not be as good as 5.1 encoded from discreet tracks.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
MPEG-1 files will play on just about any computer you can find.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can create 50i Blu-ray discs, but no Blu-ray player I’m aware of can play them correctly. We’ve made several 50i Blu-ray discs for foreign clients, and none of the clients complained about them.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Just drop the six videos into the timeline in the order you want them. As a bonus, you get a chapter point at every splice. Couldn’t be easier.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You need to use DVD burning software on the PC side to burn the disc. You should do this on Mac also. Merely dropping the Video_TS folder onto the blank DVD may or may not produce a usable DVD. The files within the Video_TS folder must be written in a certain order on the disc.
What would work better is to create a disc image, and send that to the remote user. There’s less chance for something to go wrong. He can burn the disc image to a DVD-R using DVD burning software. We send disc images between our facilities all the time and never have a problem.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Take your footage and squeeze horizontally to 75% of original size. Now you have 4:3 converted to anamorphic. If you have borders on top and bottom you would like to eliminate, as a second step, resize the shot larger, but leave the 75% squeeze alone.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If this is a consumer-level flat-screen TV and not a professional monitor, first set the color temperature as close to 6500 deg. as possible (usually one of the “warm” settings). Then I would tweak further using a Blu-ray monitor calibration disc. There are at least 8 or 10 of those on the market. Look on Amazon. They sell most of them.
Inexpensive TVs may not have many adjustments, while more expensive sets have a multitude of adjustments to allow full calibration to be done in the field.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City