Dave Friend
Forum Replies Created
-
Hop,
One option is to use the Project Management function to make copies of projects. This will gather all the assets of a project and copy them to a new location. You can copy only the used parts of the media (plus handles values you specify) or copy the whole media file.
This will mean that if a file is used in Project A and B that two files will exist where there was only one before. Maybe that is undesirable or maybe not. But it would greatly simplify your media management.
Once you are certain that the copied projects are functioning properly you can delete the original files/folders to free up drive space.
Dave
-
Dan,
IMO, exporting m2v/ac3 from the timeline is the optimal solution most of the time.
Test my suggestion by using a small section of a project where a title has been added. Export once straight to m2v and again to a DV avi and export one more time to uncompressed avi.
Compress the two avi files to m2v using the exact settings used for the from the timeline m2v. Use your favorite player to A/B/C compare the m2v files and decide for yourself if one is better than the others.
This can be done pretty quickly as you only need 30 seconds or so of footage.
Please post your findings if you actually take me up on this suggestion.
Dave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW -
Check with the replicator you will be using on the preferred media for delivery of authored projects. The ones I’ve talked to suggest sending portable drives.
Dave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW -
Erik,
You could use the TMPGEnc MPEG Editor to extract the audio and video assets from a DVD. It will do this without re-compressing so there is no loss in quality. You can then author a new DVD with these a/v assets.
Hope this helps.
Dave
-
Ed,
No, there is no way to submit a VIDEO_TS and have the CSS added.
[JumpCut Ed] “am being told my a replicator that in the past, they have received discs from clients that are copy protected and ready for replication. Is this possible?”
I don’t believe this is true. Being able to copy (master being the same thing) a copy protected disc is a non-sequitur. What is the point of copy protection if is can be copied?
Dave
-
Sounds like the replicator simply made a glass master of your disc instead of processing the DDP files and creating a master from the disc image contained therein. So, basically they made perfect copies of the DDP files.
The DDP files do not have to be on the root of the disc although it is good practice to do so. IMO, the person who processed your disc at the mastering facility was asleep at the wheel. They clearly did not bother to look at the disc’s contents. Or if they did, they are not trained well enough to recognize and understand what the presence of a Layer0 folder full of .DAT files implies.
Was the disc clearly marked as containing a DDP file set? And was the rep facility told that you were sending DDP files?
Dave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW -
Hi Erik,
I have spent a lot of time using an Axio SD system. It tends to be more stable than a non-hardware assisted PPro set-up but not completely so. I haven’t been able to determine exactly where the break point is in terms of project size and/or complexity. But there is one, and it is a source of constant sorrow. (Olde Tyme music up and under.)(I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? again yesterday and the song is stuck in my head.)
Until Adobe can address the issue and make Premiere Pro as stable as the other applications in the Adobe lineup I cannot give a whole-hearted endorsement.
I have not used cs3 to any great extent and not at all in conjunction with Axio. Most of the posts I’ve read about cs3 maintain that it is better than previous releases in regard to large project stability. Jack’s post (at the start of this thread) is the first (that I recall) which details that it ain’t so. We will be upgrading the Axio SD system to cs3 early in January before we begin a new, marginally complex, project. I will report back what happens.
Dave
-
Jack,
I have stopped trying to do large project with Premiere Pro. Put simply, it cannot handle them. Beyond a certain size and/or complexity it becomes unstable to the point of being unusable. I find that breaking jobs up into multiple projects is required. This is a pain but not as painful as the constant crashing and other failures to perform that appear once a project reaches the breaking point.
I had hoped that cs3 would address these long-standing issues. Apparently it is beyond Adobe’s technical prowess.
Dave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW -
[Kris Oly] “We are using CS3 Production Suite.”
So you are using Encore for the DVD authoring?
After the common elements have been encoded once you should be able to use the resulting files (m2v and ac3 or wav) in other Encore projects. It is as simple as importing those files and telling Encore not to transcode them.
The new video segment will, obviously, need to be encoded as appropriate for the project.
Dave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW -
Hi Ryan,
Yes, you found your old friend Dave. What’s an old audio guy doing lurking around a DVD authoring forum? Drop me an email
davef [at] davefriend[dot]comDave
Dave Friend
Co-Host Discrete Edit*ors COW