Bill Stephan
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Anamorphic at 720×576 pixels (non-square), which translates to 768×576 square pixels.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
All you need to do is export an .aif or .wav file(s) of the audio from the project with the old frame rate and then import the files into the project with the new frame rate. Because Avid only cares that there are 48,000 samples/second, you can take the files to a new frame rate. Everything will hold sync. This is one method used by audio houses to lay a completed mix into multiple video masters with different frame rates.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
[Carlos Dearell] “In DVD Architect how can I set up my buttons in the menu so when you go across the button it highlights?”
DVD Spec does not allow for mouseovers the way that Internet browsers do. And software DVD players also disable Auto Activated buttons so a mouseover doesn’t trigger an undesired jump.
[Carlos Dearell] ”
As far as an output file which is best? 1080i/1080p/720p or 720i to be played on standard & flat screen tv?”If you want to output 1080i/P or 720P (there is no 720i), you need to go to Blu-ray. DVD is NTSC or PAL only.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
We have used DVDitPRoHD with MPEG-2 streams encoded in 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 1080/23.976P and 720/59.94P.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Did you use MPEG audio? It’s supported on all PAL players, but very few NTSC DVD players can play it. You should be using Dolby Digital .ac3 or AIFF/PCM audio.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If you are doing a film out, then it makes no sense to do a PAL master. (It did before HD was widespread.) Your HD 23.976P master can be played at 24P by pulling-up 0.1% during the ingest at the film recording facility. An HDCAM or HDCAM-SR VTR will even take care of correcting the audio during playback.
I would avoid doing any conversion through software or hardware means, as the slightest conversion artifacts or motion judder will be very visible on the big screen. You already have the right format to go to film.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Some other thoughts:
1. Certain brands or models of DVD players are known to not execute all aspects of the DVD Spec as “faithfully” as they should. This is not too much of a problem with newer units, but it does crop up in older and cheap players.
2. If the laser in the player is weak, it will have trouble playing DVD-R discs correctly or even at all. If a DVD player plays replicated discs fine but has trouble with DVD-R discs, this is most likely the cause. I’ve seen lasers go bad in name brand players in as little as 6 months of use.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Another thing to watch out for is that certain brands or models of DVD players are known to not execute all aspects of the DVD Spec as “faithfully” as they should.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
DVD menus made from layered files work fine in hardware DVD players, but software DVD players have the “auto activate” button function disabled. This means that the viewer will not see the button state change unless he click on it. A second click is needed to execute the button. A DVD menu that needs to work correctly in software DVD players need to be built with an overlay.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Check it by looking at the footage on a 16:9 monitor or flat-screen TV.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City