David Roth weiss
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John,
I go through this stuff all the time with my British friends… I have to explain my jokes to them, and they are very intelligent people. It can be very frustrating for a would-be comedian… Sometimes I wonder how you guys came up with Monty Python???
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John,
Characterizing your words as “shorthand” was an attempt at humor… You have so many words to spare, I figured you wouldn’t mind if I misappropriated a few.
Sorry if I offended you.
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[arky] “Other Title designs are not language based, but simply allow the viewer to access Multi-Angle content manually, using the remote, at isolated portions during playback of an otherwise non-Multi-Angle feature.”
“Shorthand” for adult films…
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Bob,
In a nutshell, multi-angle is currently in use by only segment of the entainment industry. There’s doggie style shot from behind, from the front, from above, from below, POV of the guy, of the girl, etc., etc., etc. Get the picture???
DRW
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[Shahram] “I bought a NTSC-DVD and I want to convert it to PAL and Canopus AVI DV and use it in my premiere project.”
Thats a bit of a problem here on the Cow cuz you’re clearly asking for help with ways to transcode and make use of copyrighted material. Thats pretty much universally frowned upon here in our professional community.
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[harold] “- multi-pass encodes (basic version supports 1-pass cbr, 2-pass vbr; SP supports more passes than any sane person would use… at least nine passes… for vbr _and_ cbr) “
Procoder will do 12-pass at Mastering Quality — other than spending a lot more of your valuable time, I would imagine that could derive some benefit from 12 passes if you happen to have perfect original, a perfect online, a perfect monitor, and perfect eyes…
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Mike,
I’m also on the PC platform so I’ll give you the very short book. Procoder 2 is a great way to go. It does so many things, and does them all well — and MPEG2 encoding is what it does best. You’d be well served to bite that bullet. I’ve tried ’em all, and I see no compelling reason to go with a competitor, unless you feel compelled to spent $2K on Cinema Craft, simply must have a cheaper solution, or for some reason must have an all-in-one authoring/encoding package.
For authoring, I still prefer ReelDVD for most day to day stuff, because it produces compatible disks that never seem to come back. But, its very limited, and is strictly authoring, with no graphics creation app attached. Adobe Encore and Ulead DVD Workshop are two comprehensive DVD creation packages that are currently in favor, and both are very good. Adobe seems to be the most wise of the two, as Ulead’s future is questionable now, with a hostile takeover rumored.
The Fuji demo you saw was most likely encoded on a hardware encoder. Today the difference in the output of software and hardware encoders is not great, so unless you plan to make DVD creation a very big part of your business, or need to output in realtime a whole lot, you probably needn’t entertain hardware encoders at all.
Hope that helps…
DRW
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Mike,
It would require a book to answer a question like that. What platform are you on?
DRW