David Roth weiss
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[Frank] “You can’t really burn the DVD’s you’ve authored within DVDlab- you have to burn it elsewhere.”
Not such a bad thing. Authoring programs can’t stay up to date with new burners as easily as devoted burning software.
[Frank] “It also seems to have more problems using ordinary mpg2’s”
Can you define “ordinary” in this case? Reel rejects most files other than 720 x 480 elementary stream (seperate audio) MPEG2 files, and is fairly choosy. DVDLab is actually more tolerent, allowing import of more files types. If your MPEG2 encodes are 720 x 480 DVDLab should not have to reencode. Make cretain to look under the hood to toggle off any function that might be forcing a reencode.
[Frank] “You aslo can’t really test the project you’ve created within DVDlab.”
Testing is somewhat limited in all DVD authoring packages, because until you actually multiplex they all simply simulate most navigation and commands.
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Rick,
Just like Discreet Edit 7.5 HD, right???
DRW
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You’ll do fine Ruby… Knowing what and where to ask is half the battle. There is a whole load of really good info to be found right on this forum. As is typical of the best forums like this one, somebody is always working on a project more complex than your own, so you can learn what you need to know from them before you really need to know it. Then, when that complicated gig coems in, you’re already many steps ahead.
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Hey Ruby, what about my glass??? Vueve Cliquot I hope…
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Set the target for DVD, then change the stream format to Generic ISO MPEG Stream — then go down and change the width and height to the appropriate numbers your want.
Its all there… thats the only way to do it.
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Procoder will do it all, I just tried… Perhaps TMPGenc can do it too if you can find a way to force it to create an ISO MPEG Stream (the only absolutely customizable MPEG2 stream).
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Michael,
You already have it down… Most likely you’ll be working primarily with highlights, which are the best of the best, and they’ll provide you with multiple angles of everything, cuz they always have a few zillion cameras. The biggest part of the job in sports to simply pick the angle that blows everyone away, and build up the moment further by showing a reaction shot of either the player, a teammate, or the fans.
At Fox Sports, where I used to work, the announcers always wrote their own copy, cuz each has a distictive style, and they know they’re own style best. We’d just cut the best pix and put lots of crowd noise underneath, then show it to the announcers. As they watched it the first time they’d just ad-lib their lines and the producers would type it all out, and then they’d bring them them to the VO booth to record it. When the VO came back, I’d lay it down and we were done. Its about as easy as it gets…
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Ruby,
Don’t all the settings on your software, but AC3 is a Dolby encode. It is the standard used on all Professional DVDs, so don’t worry about it degrading audio quality. Use either 192 Kbps or 224 Kbps settings. You can try to keep your video encode at 8.0 Mbps, and see if the AC3 encode does the trick. But, if you still get skipping, lower the video rate to the 6.8 Mbps I recoomended earlier and you should have no problems.
Good luck, keep me posted…
DRW
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Ruby,
You did not mention how you encoded the audio portion of your program, whether you used AC3 encoding or left audio as PCM. I’m assuming you did not encode to AC3, as this type of problem seems to usually stem from this issue. Preferably, you should always use AC3 audio encode. Its makes a huge difference, as overhead is exceeded at high data rates if you do not. Lower your video encoding rate to somewhere around 6500 or 6800, and/or encode your audio to AC3 and your problems should go away.
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Each peice of the audio/video puzzle is refered to as “an element.” Your text saved as a PNG file is just one the video elements of your finished project. For example, here in Hollyweird when you walk into a big post-production facility with a box of tapes, CDs, etc. that comprise your show, you would normally tell your online editor that all of the “elements” for your particular project are in that box.
The pixel dimensions of a finished DVD are 720 x 480, but if you create text elements at that size in Photoshop it does so with square pixels, the VGA standard. That will be resized because video uses non-square pixels. So, in Photoshop create files using one of the following frame sizes:
— 720×534, for DV NTSC
— 720×540, for D1 NTSC
— 768×576, for DV or D1 PAL
Good luck…
DRW