David Smith
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Export that big file out of FCP or Quicktime Pro as DV NTSC with the sound at 48mhz, should be a preset for that. That should bust it down to a few gigs, then pull it into DSP4. No AIF, use AC-3 audio. That should look just fine and fit quite easily.
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Auto Assign Now works fine unless you have lots of buttons all over the page, in which case you’d get some funny navigation. But it works when the buttons are placed symmetrically just fine.
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Those errors really suck. Whenever I’ve run into that, I’ve pretty much just re-encoded the video. If you have lot of navigation and stuff in there, you could re-encode it with the same exact name and place it in the same spot and then reopen DSP. That might work. What type of video file was it? Mov?
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Thanks for that reply, Lucas. Not sure if I was very clear in my question, but these are DVDs that I am 100 percent sure DO NOT have closed captions. So when I pull in the demuxed files it is puzzling to see that Scenarist “thinks” there is a caption file already attached. I’ve looked for settings referring to captions in these demuxers but I have not seen anything that refers to them yet. I think they are somehow mislabeling the m2v files as having captions. If you have any more ideas I’d love to hear them. Many thanks!
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I think I was thinking you were doing this in DVD Studio Pro, sorry about that! But yes you do need to add chapter markers if possible in Final Cut. I never use that to make DVDs so I’m not sure if you can or where you would do that. Dual layer break points can only be set at chapter markers so you gotta have them. And the bigger your project, the more you will need cause it has to be able to figure out where to split the files to fit on the DVD. You have a lot of data going on that disc (remember dual layer discs say they’ll hold 8.5 GB or whatever, but in reality it is a little less). And look in your render folder inside Final Cut Pro highlight Final Cut Pro in your application window and click on that little icon up to the left and it will say “show package contents” and you can go into MAC OS and find Render files, it’s somewhere in there. Might even invest a few bucks in the program “What Size?” and it will sniff out all your files and tell you where the big ones are hiding.
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Sounds like you know how to set your project to dual layer (under the Disc/Volume tab), that’s a pretty beefy size for a dually, but if you add more chapter markers, it might be able to find one. They can only be set at a chapter point. Also if you have Final Cut Pro, there might be a ton of hidden files in your render folder that is taking up space.
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I think I have had this problem. You are probably using the button settings to tell it which stream to play when you leave that button. What you could do is add an end-jump command to that track that sets the subtitle stream to one of the ones that are not being used. Like stream 5. So when it finishes it will turn it on to a stream that does not exist. Then you will start clean again. That’s a cheater way of doing it without resorting to scripting. Make sense?
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If you are going to SD DVD anyway, maybe you could just dub your HD master straight to DVD and then rip it with something like Cinematize for use with Studio Pro or Final Cut. Just a thought if you are in a hurry.
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Sadly I don’t think there’s much out there for ripping, editing, and burning back to DVD in the way of Freeware. You’ll have to spend a little money for that I’m afraid. I have looked and all the free stuff seems to be crappy.
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The key is getting some sort of a DVD Ripper. You might want to invest in something good like Cinematize for PC (sounds like you are a PC guy). That will enable you to rip the DVD into some sort of high quality video file like an MOV or an AVI. After that you could use something like Quicktime Pro to do some simple editing to remove the ads. Then some sort of software to make a DVD out of that edited file. You might be able to find some free ones out there. If you just want to rip them to watch on computer or iPod I’d recommend a free program called Handbrake. That makes pretty nice files you could edit in Quicktime Pro which is only 30 bucks. Best thing for iPod viewing and it is free.