David Roth weiss
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Not enough information… What size is your text element, what program is it created in??? If you created in Photoshop you will have to account for square pixels.
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Melissa,
The Pioneer will burn any type of disk you want, but DVD-R is pretty standard these days. As I said before, there are bigger fish to fry than the burner itself.
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Mike,
The only way to do what you want is to use a double-sided DVD with PAL on one side NTSC on the other. There’s no other way to do it.
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Melissa,
There’s not a heck a lot to know. Buy the $50 Pioneer A109 that you saw in the other thread and you can’t go wrong. Keep in mind, an external burner is nothing more than the same burner in a box, with either firewire or USB ports and a power supply. The media you use, your encoding techniques and settings, and your software are much more important in creating discs without problems than the burner itself, but consider Pioneer to be as good as it gets.
DRW
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Ugh!!! That’s a horse of a different color. I’ll have to think about that one a while…
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Chris,
While you should probably have sent the tapes via some other shipping method, the fact is, they might have been lost anyway. At best, perhaps your client might have recovered $100 or $200 bucks — but your client would not have gotten his tapes back.
If you’ve already done the work and converted the VHS tapes to DVD or other digital format, you have achieved the service the client requested, and he has his valuable family keepsakes on a medium that will last virtually in perpetuity. The VHS tapes were already likely on their way out anyway, with a shelf life of only 10 years.
So, while the client may be pissed-off, that’s not worth much more than your sympathy, which I’m certain you’ve expressed many times over. Other than that, the client shouldn’t really expect to extract his frustrations out on you. If you want, you might offer him a $100 discount, but don’t let him eat you alive over something that is out of your control.
Alternatively, you might offer to pay to have the issue mediated in small claims court. Any judge would take into account that you had offered a $100 discount, and you would probably be granted the balance.
Good luck…
DRW
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[Alex Alexzander] “If you want to add special content to your DVD, such as assing web links, power points, or whatever, this is the application. “
Hey Alex, what’s an “assing web link”???
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[george] “its seems that DVD+9 dual layer are much more common as available media than DVD-9 dual layer.”
Unless things have changed quite recently, the only disks available are DVD+9.
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1st generation quality H.264 is outstanding, however is is not designed for editing, and so generational loss and the introduction of compression artifacts will make it a poor choice for archiving if you intend to edit or use it for anything other than playback on a monitor.
Go to tape as the others have recommended, or convert your files to uncompressed QT, and store on your HD until HD DVDs are ready to rumble in the near future. HD DVDs will be excellent for storage such files.
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H.264 is a distribution format rather than an editing format. In my opinion its not a great archiving format, but you could get away with it if your finished projects are never going to be edited, never going to be sold as stock footage, etc.