Bill Stephan
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Depends on how many subtitles there are. An hour of program could have one hundred or ten thousand caption/subtitles.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You need to burn using the Video_TS folder on the original DVDs. Or make DVD copies directly from the original discs. Or replicate from an original DVD (if it is a DVD-5). To try to burn the elementary streams and menu artwork using Toast skips the mandatory authoring step.
If you have a disc image, that might help you out also.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Michael,
Captioning files are so small that you really don’t need to factor them into your bit budget. As long as you leave yourself a little wiggle room when you bit budget, that will be sufficient.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Michael,
Captioning files are so small that you really don’t need to factor them into your bit budget. As long as you leave yourself a little wiggle room when you bit budget, that will be sufficient.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Law enforcement agencies (especially the FBI crime lab) use special versions of Avid systems that greatly enhance the usable information in marginal video or still photos. The police agency you are dealing with can tell you more about this, as these systems are avilable only to investigators.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Backup software (like Retrospect) will do that for you. If you are on PC, use Windows Backup.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Wrong! It will look correct only if you import a 720×540 image using the “maintain/square pixels” setting.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Bob,
You normally use your authoring software to control the DLT drive. You shouldn’t need anything else except perhaps a Quantum DLT driver. To author in one piece of software and write the DLT in other software is an excellent way to cause problems. Some DVDSP users will write DLT tapes using Toast. It can be done if you know what you are doing, but many authors run into trouble this way.
Because PCs count in 1024 bit kilobytes, the capacity of a DVD-5 is 4.37 Gigs.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Try this test. Make a new file in Photoshop containing a black circle on a white background. Do this one in a 720×486 pixel document and again in a 720×540 pixel document resized to 720×486 (without constraining proportions). Import both into your Avid using the “601 non-square pixels” option. Observe that the circle made at 720×486 is now an oval and the one made at 720×540 and resized is still a circle.
THAT is what the fuss is all about!
I just recently had a customer supply a DVD menu made the “wrong” way, and they just called to complain that the shape of the person’s head in the DVD menu looks distorted. DOH!
Class dismissed.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Interface issues aside for a moment, Avid always was successful because, when you bough Avid, you got the entire workflow. As we transition to HD work, now I see Xpress Pro HD starting to become a dead-end system because of the missing pieces of the workflow. Xpress Pro HD really isn’t very usable for any HD editing jobs. You can’t even view HD footage in HD. That’s why my next upgrade probably will be to “something else”.
Avid no longer connects with its customers. They need to remember why they became great in the first place.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City