David Smith
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I do a lot of “legal” ripping of DVDs for schools that get permission to copy them….and I use MPEG Streamclip mostly, but it does not work with encrypted material. So for that I make a disc image with DVD Decryptor and then mount that image and then use MPEG Streamclip to grab the content. Also DVD Demuxer is now freeware, but sometimes will rip the tracks into hundreds of pieces…but sometimes not. It also will not demux encrypted DVDs, so I’d use DVD Decryptor first and make a disc image or set’ of DVD files.
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If bolding them does not look better, do you have the ability to create Tiffs for them? That would look a lot better, you’d want to create a SON file with a group of tiffs or bmps. If you know someone who does captioning or subtitling, they may have a program called Swift 6, which does this quite well. If you are able to get a SON file, make sure there are no spaces in the filename, use underscores or dashes.
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You could use Stories and scripts to do this. Stories are just like playlists for groups of chapter stops which you can rearrange and set different end jumps that don’t affect your main track(s).
So you could add two stories to your main track. And also add two scripts, one for each language.
The idea is: You select the Armenian language, which goes to the Armenian SCRIPT, which should have two operations in it. First it turns on the Armenian subtitles, then it jumps to the STORY for Armenian, which contains all the chapters in the video, at the end of that STORY you have it jump back to the Armenian menu button, or wherever you want it to go.
Same thing with English. Jump to the SCRIPT that turns on the English, then jump to the English STORY, which has all the same chapter stops, but that’s a different Story so you can add a different end jump, which would go back to the English menu.
Make sense?
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This is a tough one to visualize, so forgive me if I am missing it, but adding one more story for that main Play All button, you could just direct it to the tracks and avoid the other stories.
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Original video ripped to PAL MOV file from a PAL DVD with DVxDVD and it looks good. I keep the FCP settings the same, import the XML PNG stream as DV PAL. I did find that making the font a little larger, in this case a 30 (then I have to size them down a bit for this project) looks a little better. Still a little fuzzy though. I’m going by my final output, which in this case is an MOV file, but then I gotta transcode it to a MPEG 2 file for the client…
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Gonna look for that! Many thanks!
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Be sure that there are no spaces in the title of the SON file. Use underscores instead. But you have to do that when you save out the original SON file. You can’t just rename it because there are still spaces in all the references to the BMPs. Try that and see if that helps.
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I’d use Mpeg Streamclip for this one. Free download. It will rip the DVD into whatever format you want.
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I looked into this further cause I like the effect. The answer is definitely to use a “Layered Menu.” You’d have to create it in Photoshop though and those “bigger” buttons would actually be on separate layer so when you roll over it it shows that bigger button. Again not sure if you can do it with a motion menu but I’ll bet you could. Maybe Noah could weigh in on that….
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I think if you use Photoshop you can do something like that. Not sure you could do it with a motion menu, but if it’s a still you could have a “clone” menu pop up directly over the other one with a bigger button and it would look like only the button was growing. Kinda hard but I think that is doable.