Bill Stephan
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NOT WORKING! 🙂
My 8 year old niece really needs someone to set up her electric trains, so that is as technical as I get on Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Johnny,
Do you have an Avid VTR emulation cable (or have you made your own)? It’s not enough to merely put the Avid into emulation mode. The cable not only crosses the sends and receives for the various signals, but it sends the time code where it needs to go.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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If you’re on an Avid system with the Scratch Removal effect, you can paint in a portion of an image up to +/- 3 fields away from the problem field. Or do a similar fix in After Effects. Or use Photoshop or another painting tool as James pointed out. So pick your favorite tool and go at it!
I once painted over several thousand negative dirts in a Quantel Paintbox for a made-for-tv movie project.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
I don’t understand what you mean by gold or glass mastering for archival storage. A glass master is the mother master used to create the stampers for DVD replication. They are quite expensive to manufacture (we charge around $1,000 per layer), and they don’t fit into your DVD drive/player. They are used in a variety of industrial molding and stamping equipment.
The Llibrary of Congress is doing archival storage using MAM archival quality DVD-R stock, and these are generally thought to be good for 100 years. (I have no idea how they figure out the life of the storage medium!)
It’s also important to store DVDs where they will not be affected by temperature & humidity extremes.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Creature,
As you point out, several are using SATA arrays sucessfully, but many are not. 7200 RPM drives are marginal for DV25 media storage. Avid web site specs them for program storage only, not for media files. Most use 10K or 15K RPM drives. It comes down to this question: Can your combination of driver card and drives push enough data through fast enough? The fact that you are getting overruns on capture indicates that they are not fast enough.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Your SATA drives don’t have the throughput to handle your captures. That’s why you get an overrun on capture. The drives can’t take the data away and store it fast enough. You need a minimum of 4 striped U320 or Fibre Channel drives.
Avid pushes the computer to the limit in a number of ways, and you can’t just put anything you want into the computer and expect it to work correctly. Many people seeking help for malfunctioning Avids on the Cow have tried to use the wrong display cards, make do with too little system RAM, or use hard drive storage not suited to the application.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
It’s quite possible that the replicator you are using is not licensed to use CSS, and they just want you to delete CSS from the project so they can do it on the cheap.
CSS keys are quite expensive for the replicator (I believe 5 figures $$$), and you need one for each encrypted PGC.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
DVD-R discs do have a finite life expectancy under severe usage/continuous playback situations. I have heard of DVD-R discs going bad in six months. That said, I have a sales presentation playing in my reception area 24/7, which has been playing for over 2 years continously.
You might try a more robust DVD-R media such as the MAM archival quality discs. It could also be that the laser diode in the player is getting weak.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Unless you are doing HD-DVD, you want 720×480. After Effects does everything from web graphics up to 2K cinema (maybe even 4K cinema). It’s the swiss army knife of motion graphics, so you need to be careful that you are working with the appropriate frame size & rate for your application.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Brian,
A 16×9 widescreen DVD is made using 720×480 anamorphic footage. If you look at the anamorphic image, it will be distorted — people will appear very thin, and circles will be distorted. That is what you want! When an anamorphic image is displayed on a 16×9 aspect video display, it will fill the screen and “unsquish” so that the circles are round and people appear normal. Just make sure to check the 16×9 setting in the encoder so that the DVD player will handle the anamorphic footage correctly.
Sorry, but I can’t help you out with Compressor or Final Cut Pro issues as we do not use them.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City