[Daniel Ludwig]

stev,
you allways have to do a bitbudgeting if you are authoring a DVD or BD. it´s a necessary step in the whole process. otherwise you might overfill the disc by choosing the wrong duration/bitrate-szenario…

if there are a lot clips, you can prepare a watch-folder within AME to transcode them.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

stev,
your next step is to encode your video-asset using adobe media encoder – MXF in-> MPEG2 elementary stream + dolby digital audio elementary stream out!

these assets could be imported into encore for authoring.

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

no pro-apps-support in europe 🙁

[Daniel Ludwig]

why not used clipwrap to create pro res-files out of it and edit within FCP??

[Daniel Ludwig]

look for ROM-Data within the user-manual.

[Daniel Ludwig]

Joe,
the usual way of authoring is:

1. edit your video
2. export it as selfcontained quicktime-mov
3. encode the authoring-assets using compressor or any other encoding-tool that could generate DVD-compliant assets
4. import them into DVD SP and author the disc

within compressor you´ve got several DVD-presets that containing dolby AC3-audio.

be awared that these defaul-AC-3-settings are used with film-source. in that reason they needed to be changed. please search on the correct settings on the cow or the web.

if you just imported your quicktime-mov into DVD SP, then the resulting audio will be PCM.

especially on DVD+/-R media my advice is to use dolby AC3-audio.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Joe,
there might be different issues!

1. burning-method

have you burned your DVD using DVD SP or have you burned it using mac os finder? finder will not create a proper DVD, as it needs to be formatted unsing the UDF-format. finder will burn the disc using mac os HFS-format, so the disc will not be recognised by DVD-player.

2. compatibility-problem

DVD+/-R media has ofter problems on different players, depending on which player you have, especially on older player that´s a big problem.

3. DVD-media

be awared only to use high-quality-media like verbatim or tajo yuden, other media often have problems with the players

4. PCM audio

98% of all DVDs with playback-issues that I´ve seen has PCM audio on it. if you are using DVD+/-R-media they could only handle max. 8Mbit (total max. bitrate) instead of 10.08Mbit given by spec. so you should use dolby AC3-audio instead of PCM (wav/aif), as PCM have 1.5MBit, that´s a lot more.

you see, there are a lot possibilities why a DVD could fail to play.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

LTO and film roles are insurable, good “old fashioned” tapes as well – harddiscs are not, as far as I have been told.

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey guys,
calculate the discs that would be needed to replace ONE tandberg 50TB LTO-storage-loader! (8 catridges) 😉

I´m not kidding, that the max. size they have at the moment.

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

any projects created before?

temp-folder might need to be deleted!

cheers

danny