[Carlos Angeli]

Did you check that the audio track was activated in Premiere?

[Carlos Angeli]

Hi Daniel,

I was expecting to create something better on DVD. Thanks anyway

[Carlos Angeli]

They just want it to fill the hole screen. Other than that, I suspect they don´t know what Scope or Flat means. Apparently they just have a person who projects the movie.

What I don´t know is:

-if I submit it in Scope is the video going to have black bars?

-is it going to be zoomed in thus loosing part of the sides or should I go with Flat and just lose a bit of top and bottom of the image?

I´m asking this cause the person doing the DCP told me I could get black bars from Scope.

[Carlos Angeli]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the advice and congrats on the spot. Simple and effective.

I talked to the person in charge of the DCP process, and he told me if I wanted to make it full screen, I should deliver the spot in Flat. Otherwise, I could get black bars.

Too bad as I had already planned it in Scope and also prefer that format, but I´m afraid I´m gonna get either black bars or Zoom in when proyected in the movie theatre. Also, I´m not sure which one matches the movie theatre best.

[Carlos Angeli]

I´m thinking animated masks in After effects. Also the different branches of the nerve could be in different 3D layers, to give more of a “volumetric” effect.

Another solution would be a 3D app, like Maxon´s C4D. You could use it with a 3D stroke plugin to create the nerve.

Good luck

[Carlos Angeli]

Thanks Walter for your explanation and advice. I´ll try to find out if the projector accepts some other format.

[Carlos Angeli]

Thanks Ted, I´ve tried to gather more information from the person who contacted me, but he couldn´t help much so far…

He did told me that they receive the movies in usb sticks and just plug them in the projector, and forwarded me an email he received with a VOLINDEX file an a XML file as an example. I´ve never worked with this kind of file before, so I´m guessing it has been “translated” somehow to something the projector can understand.

[Carlos Angeli]

Hey Vince,

We already have DVD players (LG DVD 552: https://www.lg.com/ae/home-entertainment/video/LG-dvd-player-DV552.jsp)

They’re supossed to read DIVX, hence the purpose of the question. I´ll give DivX a shot before considering other options, but definitely will consider your advise.

[Carlos Angeli]

Hi Vince,

the purpose in this case is not for a pirated movie, but to make a test on a DVD player that supports USB connection and supposedly can play DIVX files.

I wanted to see if it can play 1920×1080 divx instead of 720x 576 DVD videos, for marketing purposes. We´ve been using DVD´s so far but I was asked to try getting an alternative to buying Blu-Ray players.

Leo,

I will try that FREE Divx converter.

Thanks

[Carlos Angeli]

Tony,

I checked this software you mention and wasn´t able to do anything at all with it. It wouldn´t import any file wheter it was avi, mp4, mpg or flv. Don´t know why.

Still, in my experience at least, every editing/ cropping software needs to somehow reencode/ join the output file.

Maybe you should give Virtual dub a try. Is free and preety powerful for a non profesional editor software. It has a mode called “direct stream mode” wich is suposed to keep the same input quality.