Bill Stephan
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The up/downconverter lives on the HD-SDI board, and the firewire board has no was to see it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
What are you using to encode your video? Uncompressed quicktime is not a supported format for DVD. You must convert your video to MPEG-2 in a software or hardware DVD encoder.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Your white level in the artwork needs to be RGB 235 maximum, which equals 100 units of luminance in NTSC video.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can build a menu into a title with the program content. I have authoried a number of DVDs that incorporate buttons at specific points in the main program to jump away to a short subprogram. Whether the action freezes or not depends on how you build the program in your edit system. Or you can set a cell boundary to pause for 5-10 seconds and do it that way. You need to composite the menu buttons over the video footage and make a matching overlay. These techniques are not easily doable in lower-end authoring software. Systems such as Scenarist and DVD Creator allow you to set-up the data structures exactly as they need to be.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Does the sample rate of the audio in the footage match the sample rate of the project? If you have 32KHz or 44.1KHz audio in a 48KHz project, you will have a problem outputting to tape.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
1. You must keep Fusion on O/S 9.
2. If you can find someone who has taken the DVD Creator training at Sonic, they may have the Advanced Authoring Manual. Some of the material from this book is posted as tutorials on Sonic’s web site.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Dan,
The fact that you are putting files on a DVD in “Universal” Disc Format does not solve the PC/Mac cross platform issues. Files created on Mac computers have “resource forks” that must be maintained for the files to work correctly. Ususally this means burning DVDs containing Mac files on a Mac system using DVDSP or Toast.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Someone just recently released a training DVD for Avid Marquee.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Specifying handles only applied when you are decomposing a finished sequence into clips for batch digitizing at on-line resolution. This allows digitizing some pad to allow for trimming during the final on-line confor. If you are only creating a log from original source footage, just add the desired pad to you time code ins and outs.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
“Missed Frame Advance” is an underrun, which means that you CPU or your storage didn’t supply the stored media fast enough to turn it back into audio and video. When Avid ran out of data, the output process stopped.
If you have a system made of Avid certified components that is known to be fast enough, make sure that you have as few windows and bins open as possible when outputting. The CPU must refresh all of them every time the screen is redrawn, and this does use up some of the resources of the computer.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City