Dave Friend
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Kenny,
I assume you are going to use the Adobe Media Encoder. If so, setting M=1 and N=1 should give you an I frame only file.
Make sure to choose the MPEG2 format in Adobe Media Encoder and not the MPEG2-DVD format.
Ask them to specify the bitrate and if they want CBR or VBR.
You should probably ask the client what Profile and Level too.
Some broadcast servers are very particular about these items.
Dave
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Clint,
With the Matrox RT.X2 you will want a very good graphics card because the X2 makes heavy use of the graphics card for certain effects/functions.
If you use After Effects at all you will enjoy a really powerful graphics card. I know nothing about the card you mention but it look very capable. Like Tim I have had good luck with Nvidia based cards. Try to compare the GX graphics card with those approved by Matrox for use with the RT.X2. If the one you are looking at comes from the lineage of an approved card your odds are better that everything will play nice.
Dave
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Beth,
SMPTE recommended practice for digital audio sets a -9dBfs maximum peak. Probably more important to apparent loudness is where the mean peak is falling and what kind of dynamic range you want.
For my money keeping the narration peaking at -12dBfs with an absolute limit of -9dBfs produces good results.
BTW, you’re always using 16 bits. It just that more of them might be set to 0 at lower levels.
Dave
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[Bob Cole] “So adding data files won’t affect the playability in a DVD player, and vice-versa?”
No, it will not. The only possible side-effect would be on the PC side. If XP (and probably Vista) see more than one media file type that it knows what to do with it may ask the user what they want to do. I’m sure you’ve seen this behavior when putting in a disc or plugging in a portable drive.
But the DVD will play just fine on both set top and computer based players.
What are you using to author these days?
Dave
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Bob,
As long as you don’t need to link from the DVD video playback to the other files on the disc there’s no problem.
Most authoring software has the ability to include a “ROM Data” folder. It’s as simple as putting the files (and folders) you want the user to access into a folder and telling your authoring software to include this folder in the DVD.
The “ROM Data” folder and it’s contents will be at the ‘root’ of the DVD file structure when viewed with Windows Explorer or a Mac’s Finder.
Dave
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Bob,
Are you trying to link to data (files, web sites) from a video DVD?
Or is it simply that you want to put data on a disc along with a VIDEO_TS?If the second question is true then it’s trivial to do. If the first question is true my recommendation is don’t do it.
eDVD worked as well as any solution that was ever developed and it ultimately proved unsupportable. Apple’s DVD Studio Pro has @Access which is supposed to provide linkage outside the DVD domain. In my experience it’s not reliable.
Dave
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Michael,
The short answer is you cannot add layers to a PSD that has already been imported as a sequence without breaking the linking.
Your life will probably be a lot easier if you simply create a new PSD of the new elements and import them either as sequences or one layer at a time.
Dave
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Brian,
Check the layout of the subtitles and make sure that none lay across a chapter marker. There must be a gap between subtitles at any chapter point. I would expect Architect to warn you if this condition exist. But I don’t use Architect so maybe not.
Dave
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[Daniel Schneider] “They also said I could submit the separate layers on two separate DVDs. How could I do this, should I?”
Whether you can do it depends on the authoring program you are using. Scenarist and DVD Studio Pro make it pretty easy. These are the only two that I know of that can do it.
What you end up with is a folder (two folderd for a DVD9) that contain the exact same files that would be written to DLT. Simply burn the contents of the folders on separate discs. Probably best not to use Finder if your on the Mac. You’ll need Toast to create a UDF formatted disc vs. HPFS format that Finder will make. Be sure to label the disc properly. You should have a Layer 0 (zero) and a Layer 1. Also, make sure to indicated boldly that the disc contain files for replication in the form of DDP files.
No really compelling reason not to do this.
Dave
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This is because the commands that figure out what the next button is are at the end of the chapter. If you press the menu button on the remote then those command don’t execute. It appears that your authoring program then uses button 1 as the one to highlight.
I’m guessing you’re using DVD Studio Pro. I’m not sure you can create a script that will make it behave the way you would like.
Dave