[Chris Borjis]

do you mean the tape name?

I just found that out awhile ago.

then you also have to move it way over to
the left next to the name so you can see it
if you media bins are not full width.

This is kind of an oddity compared to most other NLE’s
but I can live with it. 🙂

[Chris Borjis]

Forgot to also say a 5-blade projector will work
as well as a variable speed one for synching with
a camera and eliminating the flicker.

check ebay.

[Chris Borjis]

You can avoid flicker entirely if you project it with
a variable speed projector and set your camera to 1/60th.
run the projector with the cam on and in position and
adjust the speed until you see no flicker but white solid.

You may or may not have flicker if you can’t adjust
the camera shutter.

Autogain can be helpful for dark footage, but might
blow out on lighter overexposed stuff.

good luck! 🙂

[Chris Borjis]

what do you mean by “centre cuts the menu?”

Did you design the menu’s with a 16×9 ratio
before resizing them to 720×480 for authoring?

Are there multiple video title sets in your project?

This allows 4:3 and 16:9 on the same disc.

[Chris Borjis]

It’s during the compression step.

How are you compressing your video?

With apple compressor or quicktime perhaps?

also, you should be burning the disc at 1x just
for extra precaution.

[Chris Borjis]

Your bitrate should not exceed 7,000

Your audio should be Dolby AC-3 around 256kbps or better.

Quality Media like Verbatim & Ritek/Ridata will help as well.

[Chris Borjis]

I would make sure the white is legal (235,235,235)

and also be sure and compress that audio to Dolby AC-3
at around 256kbps.

I’ve heard that exact glitch your talking about on
MANY DVD’s that were authored with iDVD (usually) or DVDSP (barely) and had pcm uncompressed audio.

[Chris Borjis]

Any of the Panasonic DMR models will do. Mines an E30.

Listing Pricing info is a little of a taboo for good or bad.

But I can tell you this, do google searches for DVD video
and film transfers. Find a lot of online price guides
and figure out the cost from that. Thats what I had to do
to keep up with my online competitors.

Factor that the DVD Recorder is machine time because all
you do is set it up and come back when its about done.
Once the machine is paid for, it’s gravy from there.

and here’s a last tip:
charge a setup fee (people always accept it)
and charge by the disc not by the time. That way you’ll come
out ahead so to speak on smaller tape transfers and even
out on larger ones, but then economy of scale kicks in
and you still make out well.

[Chris Borjis]

Yeah you’d be surprised. If you think about it though it makes
equal sense to having a wedding video, just like a birth video.

The biggest 3 events in your life:

Birth

Wedding

Death

I’ve seen all of these often, when doing VHS to DVD conversions.

[Chris Borjis]

I do a lot of that as well. I just did a photo montage in vegas.

My advice is to keep things simple and here’s what I mean:

the picture should be downsized to no larger or smaller than 800 x 600.
it can be a litte smaller but try to keep it around that size.
any larger and vegas might choke or become slow.

This will also ensure a sharp picture. scans should be around 150 or 300 dpi then again, downsized to around 800 x 600.