Bill Stephan
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It sounds like you have a serious compatibility issue, or maybe the menu asset is corrupt. If your DVD burner is bad, it most likely would burn completely unusable discs.
You need to swap the elements of the project until you find the one that’s causing the trouble.
Bill Stephan
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You don’t describe what “plays in some players but not others means, but here are some possible causes:
1. Poor quality or defective DVD-R stock. Avoid off-brand discs.
2. Too high total bitrate. What birate was used to encode the picture? Is the audio encoded as Dolby or PCM? Are there multiple audio or subtitle streams? You want the total of the bitrates for the picture, all sound streams & all subpicure streams to total no higher than about 8.0Mbps with occasional brief higher peaks usually OK.
3. I’m not sure about how good the compatibility of the authoring software is with the DVD Spec, but there is a slight chance this might be an issue.
4. Bad DVD burner.
5. Poor compatibility of the player with the DVD Spec. This is more of a problem in older players. Some Blu-ray players don’t do a good job of playing DVD-R discs.
6. Weak laser diode in the DVD player, usually indicated where a specific player plays replicated discs easily but has trouble playing burned discs.
7. Inorrect file or folder structure on the DVD, which happens most often when authoring in one application and using another to burn the DVD-R.
The only DVD discs that are 100% compatible are correctly authored and manufactured replicated discs. Burned discs are inherently more difficult for players to read.
Bill Stephan
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Hi Eric,
I have to admit I don’t know what the outline of a triangle on your picture track means.
For better encoding, there is a software plug-in for Compressor that gives you advanced encoding capabilities. I don’t remember what it is called. Maybe someone else can give you the name. We use mostly big-iron encoders here.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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If it is a yellow triangle, that is an error message. Maybe your video track is encoded in a format that DVDSP doesn’t accept (H.264, VC-1, etc), or wrong video standard (PAL or HD in an NTSC project, for example). Check your encoding workflow.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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No component outs on 3/4″ VTRs. Those are strictly a composite-only format.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Encode your footage as 50i. Because the source is progressive, it will still appear as progressive on the Blu-ray disc.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Regarding your Phillips DVD player, I’ll bet you find in the setup menus a setting to enable/disable 24P playback. But for the DVD player auto detect the capability of the display, that requires an HDMI connection.
Regarding BitVice, I don’t use it, so I can’t comment on its features. Iwould think that the help file or other documentation would explain the various encoding options. Maybe another BitVice user can comment.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Alan,
You say your MPEG-2 is encoded at 23.98fps. DVD spec does not support that framerate. If the original source is 23.98fps, that must be encoded as 29.97fps using 3:2 pulldown, and you should encode using an advanced encoder having IVT (3:2 pulldown removal). Those encodes will play as 23.98 if the DVD player senses it is connected to a 24P-capable monitor. Otherwise, the player plays 29.97 with the 3:2 pulldown, which displays properly on everything else.
Apple Compressor does not have the ability to encode with IVT.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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There are plenty of After Effects tutorials here on the Cow. You should be able to find something that will show you basic animation. It’s very easy to make a simple animated bar.
If you don’t have AE, you can do the same thing in Photoshop. Animate in the timeline window.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Also, designs that are too complex for weaving are printed directly onto a neutral-colored fabric.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City