[Daniel Ludwig]

hi sean,
what kind of computer do you use? mac or pc? is it an HD-film or an SD-film?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi again,
I wold prefer DVD SP but Encore will be OK as well.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Krish,
you can playback NTSC-DVDs on PAL-player but it wont work the other way round.

if you need to convert PAL to NTSC I would advice to use compressor with framecontrol. you should go 29.98 NDF and encode it as 29.98 NDF (progressive) otherwise you could get in trouble with the field-dominanz.

note: it´ll take a bit of time to create your NTSC-film out of your PAL-material.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Gloria,
why do you set an end-action at the end of your chapters?

if you have a 90min film the end-action wont be necessary.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Alex,
authoring-programms expecting elementary streams, no multiplexed programm-streams.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Carlos,
there are some mistakes in your workflow again!

if your exporting to 29.98 dropped frames, this is not correct – it used to be 29.98 NDF (non dropped frames) dropped frames can´t be progressive.

you need to export to 23.98, because that´s for DVD 29.98 non dropped – progressive with 3:2-pulldown.

I tested Adobe Media Encoder CS5 a few minutes ago with 23.98fps and figured out that it´s mark the progressive picture as lower field as well, even if you tell him that the input is progressive.

I guess it makes an mistake as it should be flagged as progressive frame, but it used to be flagged as progressive sequenz (so you´ll see the field-dominanze with streamclip), like Mainconcept Encoder (Adobe Source Code) is doing the same mistake.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Willy,
before your DVD is playing the first menu you should jump to a video-track to keep the resume-values of your player happy.

it could be a small (3-5sec) black-track with silence-audio, or a disclaimer and the end-jump link to your prefered menu.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hey Carlos,
yes – MPEG Streamclip is a great tool for a job like this. virtual dub wont be supported/developed any longer as I know.

it´s quite easy to export to quicktime or avi from within streamclip.

I´m quite sure, if you´ll keep the frame-rate of your input-video and encode it, you wont get any problem with the playback of your video.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
first of all, you´ve allways have the possibility to transcode your video to an eding-codec like uncompressed, pro res or foto-jpeg.

a tool in every editors toolcase would be MPEG Streamclip, the swiss knife for free – PC and mac.

now to your questions:

1. in case your clips are 25/50 fps you should go PAL, all others should go NTSC.

2. even 24fps will we encoded as 29.98fps NDF with 3:2-pulldown, so I wont see a reason why progressive should be a problem.

note: if you need to create a DVD for int. market you should go NTSC as well, because DVD-player in US wont play PAL-framerates, but PAL-players will play NTSC-DVDs.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

8MBit wont be the main problem.
we have been creating a lot DVDs using 8-8.5 MBit for video+audio on DVD-R and also replicated ones without any problems.

the main reason why there is a problem is 24 vs 25fps, you can´t use 24fps for a PAL-DVD, it will allways shutter, because to fit 25fps the last frame will be repeated I guess. FCP is doing the same if you put an 24fps clip into a 25fps-sequenze.

in fact to edit h264 within premiere is no good idea as well, h264 is a distribution-codec, not a post-production-codec, but that´s another story.

so your best choice will be 24fps NTSC-DVD, so you stay at the same framerate and you´ll be progressive.

cheers

danny