[Dan Asselin]

I believe that you are right in everything you say. I have, however had a few bad moments that you appear to not have had. None the less
I will keep your post handy and attempt to incorporate some of what you are doing into my workflow.

Thanks;

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

I think you are right on. My experience indiates that 7 mbps is the upper limit before you start running into DVD compatibility issues.
I recently found out that The National Film Board of Canada uses 2 Pass VBR 5.5 becaue they are most concerned about compatibility with the greatest amount of DVD players. Anywhere in that range should provide an excellent result.

[Dan Asselin]

Excellent info thanks a lot Rob

[Dan Asselin]

Hi Noah;

My name is Dan and I have been noticing that in this forum we get a great deal of questions about ripping DVD’s. Instead of always having to ask whether they are trying to rip copy-protected DVD’s why not instead set up a header at the beginning of the forum like the one used in AE for standard questions. Then if they can’t find what they are looking for there then they are simply DVD pirates anyways.
We should also understand that many of the tools the pirates use have valid uses in professional settings as well plus they are generally free.

If this idea interests you then contact me and i would be more than willing to take charge of creating such a file or assisting at the very least. We can discuss my qualifications off-forum.

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

I recently ran into the problem of taking a 1920 by 1080 piece of footage and creating a DVD 5. I simply imported the footage into AE (720 by 480 comp) and resized to fit allowing for some small vertical loss. Then I rendered DVD compatible files using Adobe media encoder 16 by 9 (I used 5.5 mbps 2 pass VBR Q4) and that was it.

Did I miss something? The client is happy, the footage looks better than expected and it took less time than I thought it would.

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

Hi: This is a post I sent to some others but it might be of interest to you as well. In order to help you with synch I would simply skip the step using FILE MERGER and work with the pieces.

I remember the first time a client gave me a dvd to get my content from. I thought I was in real trouble. Then I went to the web and found that everything I needed was available for free.

First I use a program called DVD SHRINK to pull my assets from the disk. Then I use a small program called file merger to place the VOB files together, in order, and then finally a program called REJig (in file mode) to de-multiplex the vob files into M2V and AC3 streams which can be imported any authoring programs.

I assure you it is not as complicated as it sounds. Here are some links that may be of assistance to you.

https://www.videohelp.com/

https://www.dvd-guides.com/

Good Luck

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

(This was sent to a previous poster but you might find it interesting)

I remember the first time a client gave me a dvd to get my content from. I thought I was in real trouble. Then I went to the web and found that everything I needed was available for free.

First I use a program called DVD SHRINK to pull my assets from the disk. Then I use a small program called file merger to place the VOB files together, in order, and then finally a program called REJig (in file mode) to de-multiplex the vob files into M2V and AC3 streams which can be imported any authoring programs.

I assure you it is not as complicated as it sounds. Here are some links that may be of assistance to you.

https://www.videohelp.com/

https://www.dvd-guides.com/

Good Luck

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

Dear Kelissa;

I remember the first time a client gave me a dvd to get my content from. I thought I was in real trouble. Then I went to the web and found that everything I needed was available for free.

First I use a program called DVD SHRINK to pull my assets from the disk. Then I use a small program called file merger to place the VOB files together, in order, and then finally a program called REJig (in file mode) to de-multiplex the vob files into M2V and AC3 streams which can be imported any authoring programs.

I assure you it is not as complicated as it sounds. Here are some links that may be of assistance to you.

https://www.videohelp.com/

https://www.dvd-guides.com/

Good Luck

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

Here are my keys to playing on as many DVD players as possible.

1….Burn as slowly as possible. If you can find DVD’s that will
burn at 2.4x then use them.
2….Run a test with different brands of DVD’s. If you look closely
at some of the literature for DVD burners you will see that they
work better with the discs from some manufacturers than others.
3….Try to keep the top end of your transcoding setting to 5.5 mbps.
Now I know that this may effect quality to a small degree but
that is the price you may have to pay for playability.

Good Luck;

Dan

[Dan Asselin]

Also Aharon’s tut on “Horror Text” would have some key info