[Dave Friend]

[formernewsshooter] “Does anyone know why Matrox decided to change resolution defaults?”

As I understand it (and that understanding might be less than complete) Matrox went with 486 because that is the spec for uncompressed NTSC D1 video. So they “cheat” the DV preset up to 486 in order to be able to mix uncompress and DV footage on the same timeline.

It should be possible to define a new output module for AE that uses the Matrox DV/DVCam avi codec. The comp should also be set to match that template’s specs. That may not help you much when using footage captured using the X100.

There may be more information and/or work arounds available on the Matrox/Axio/X2 website or user forums.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

Let me get this straight. When playing the tape in the capture window PPro sees values greater than 24:00:00:00 but when you mark an in/out it resets it to hour zero? Or is it just seeing everything greater than 24:00:00:00 as being hours zero? In other words, it won’t cue to or capture based on the timecode on the tape.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

It would be helpful to know exactly what the PPro project settings are and exactly what you render setting are in AE.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

[Bill Stephan] “You need to export a caption file for DVD authoring from the software that created the closed caption data on the master.”

Another option is to get a CC decoder and software to read the data off the tape and convert it to the appropriate script for your authoring software. (Google may be helpful in finding such systems.) Or, you can send it to a CC service and have them to it for you.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

Start here https://www.tek.com/Measurement/applications/video/analog_video.html
Then search around on the Tektronix site for other documents of interest. Lot’s of it will be way over your head. But somewhere on the site is some really good basic information. Sorry, I don’t have the time to find it for you right now.

Hope this helps.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

Kermit,

There is a way to do it. You need to be at least a little bit comfortable using the command prompt window.

I’ve done this several times without problems.

1. Rename the main.dat files. Change the one in Layer0 to main1.dat and the one in Layer01 to main2.dat and put them in the same folder.
2. Open the command window (Start>Run>cmd.exe ) and change to the folder where you put the two .dat files. If the path to the files were X:\dvd project\layers then you would type x: cd dvd project\layers The command prompt should look like this: X:\dvd project
layers>
3. Issue a copy commmand that looks like this copy main1.dat /b + main2.dat /b discimage.iso (This will contantenate the two dat files into a new file named (in this example) discimage.iso. You can name it anything you like but it should have the iso extension. The process will take many minutes.)
4. Use your favorite burning software (Nero, RecordNow, Roxio, insert favorite here) to burn the iso image to DL media.

Note that if the DDP fileset was created using 2054 byte sector headers (as should be the case for a disc that is to be CSS encrypted) there is no point in doing this exercise. The resulting disc won’t have the CSS keys on it and will be, as far as any DVD player is concerned, an illegal copy and it will not play.

Hope this helps.

Dave

[Dave Friend]

https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/

[Dave Friend]

[Morgan Howard] “I’ve been unable to ask the facility any questions.”
They won’t answer or you’re too busy? If they won’t talk, find another replicator.

[Morgan Howard] “Do Replication facilities take a DVD-R as a Master?”
Most do and, while it’s not “the best” way, it does work as long as you don’t need copy protection.

[Morgan Howard] “Am I better off…”
In all probability the encode will look better via one of the Sonic encoder cards compared to what compressor produces. Will it be 10% better? Hard to say – no impossible to say without seeing what is being encoded. Probably not.

Will Scenarist produce a better disc than DVDSP? Maybe, maybe not – there are too many esoteric variables to provide a meaningful answer. In general, Scenarist creates a less complicated structure that is potentially less problematic. This is because DVDSP adds a layer of abstraction to the authoring process that Scenarist does not. On a straightforward title this difference won’t amount to a hill of beans – usually.

[Morgan Howard] “What’s the percentage of defective DVDs on a run of 18,000 DVDs?”
An excellent question and I don’t have a definitive answer. In theory, given that the glass master was produced perfectly, that the stamper is also perfect and that the replication machine is functioning within spec the failure rate should be a tiny fraction of one-percent or less. (The odds that any given End User

[Dave Friend]

[Terry Flaxton] ” does the latest edition of Premier allow you to make visible and invisible different layers without threatening to strike and lose data?”

Yes. You will not lose any preview renders by toggling track visibility as you experienced with FCP.

[Dave Friend]

[benn gunn] ” find that if I compile the project to burn to disc”

This implies that you successfully burned a disc. Is that so? Did Scenarist warn you with a “may not fit on disc” message?

[benn gunn] ” it will have increased to 100% with a RED bar”
Try multiplexing all your tracks before you look at the project size. That should provide more accurate results. Prior to multiplexing Scenarist is mostly estimating.