[Deirdre O’lavery]

Hi Roger,

Not sure if you saw the responses to the original post you made in:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/923815

This new post does answer one of my questions regarding what kind of player you tried the disc on. Have you tried it in your PC’s DVD drive, and does the same issue happen? If you could test it in another standalone DVD player, that would be great. Some DVD players, particularly older ones, do not play DVDRs well (or at all in some cases), which is why it might be a good idea to check it in more than one player.

When you say the menu has been upset, what do you mean specifically? Are the chapters off by one, after the new marker? if so, that’s because DVDA reads chapter points in the order the exist. So, if you have have 6 chapters in a menu, but you inserted a 7th chapter within those 6, anything after the new chapter point, will be off by 1.

To correct this, you would have to go into your menus, select/highlight the first chapter in error, then go to the ‘Button Properties’ panel, click on the ‘Action’ tab, and choose the correct link from the ‘Destination Chapter’ pull-down menu. Do this for each chapter selection that is not linking to the proper place within the movie.

Also, DVDA auto-inserts a 1st chapter at the head of each movie file, so unless the first chapter in your first menu is supposed to go to the exact beginning of the film, you would change it from ‘1:Scene/Chapter’ to ‘2:Scene/Chapter’.

Hope this helps!
~Deirdre

“All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people”

~My Man Godfrey

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Robert,

have you been able to check the dual layer disc on more than one DVD player? Some DVD players have a hard time with DVDRs and will not play correctly. Is this a stand-alone player, or like a DVD drive?

When you were prompted for the layer break, did it give you an option to choose a layer break point (either manually or automatically), or did it tell you that you needed to insert a layer break marker between a certain timecode range?

If you weren’t aware, placing a new marker for a layer break will create a new ‘chapter’ point on the disc, so instead of having 14 chapters, you will now have 15. That may not be an issue, and your menus can display only the chapter points you want to have visible, but if you cycle through the chapter points while playing the main movie, it will read the layer break point as a chapter.

Single layers are large enough for 1 hour and 40 minutes, but if you’re looking for optimal quality, I would say a dual layer is best. Especially for HD footage, since the footage is converted to standard definition for the DVD and you want the best possible quality.

On a single layer disc, a show about 60-90 minutes will look pretty good, but shows longer than 90 minutes will noticeably degrade. Probably not as much with just a 100 minute show, but I’ve had 110-120 minute shows on single layers and the quality loss from compression is pretty noticeable.

Still, I would go with single layer as the other 2 have recommended if you aren’t able to solve the issue, unless of course this is for a client who is requesting dual layer.

Cheers,
Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Steve,

Thanks for your input – it’s very much appreciated.

I think I may have an idea of what happened. From what I’ve read, Nero doesn’t work with DL discs very well and chooses it’s own layer-break which isn’t always in compliance with authoring standards.

Usually I would use DVD Architect to burn the disc, but my main machine was in use and so I burned the ISO over the network on another system using Nero.

What I’m probably going to start doing is sending them authored discs as a DDP image with one folder for each layer, and either burn them on 2 separate DVD5s or on a USB drive.

The Nero/Layer issue may not be the problem, but right now it makes the most sense — so the issue may not have anything to do with DVDA.

If anyone has any other suggestions or excperience with this error, that would be great.

Thanks!
~Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Correction:

“I’m wondering if this is because I burned the image as an ISO file from Vegas to my hard drive”

should read:

“I’m wondering if this is because I burned the image as an ISO file from DVD Architect 5 to my hard drive”

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Just wanted to say that I downloaded the trial of VASST GearShift and I totally love it!

Thanks for the suggestion!

~Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

John,

Thanks for your help. I will look into Gearshift as well as creating the Cineform template.

Best,
Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Hi John,

Thanks for the response. I have downloaded the trial of Cineform NeoScene, but it produces an error that says it will not support the file type.

The original BVAP folders from the client are no longer available, so all he has are the .mov files he converted before deleting the original media. I’m hoping he can re-wrap the future scenes somehow, into a format that is better recognized. I think I read that FCP can re-wrap to .mov to mp4, so perhaps that will work.

For now, unless I find another solution, I may just render out down-converted copies of the clips so I can edit them, then relink to the original for final output.

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Thanks Danny – I will try as you suggested.

Cheers,
Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Excellent advice – thanks so much, John!

I will try the script next project. I went with the mpeg2 manual conversion this time and it looks pretty great =)

Best,

Deirdre

[Deirdre O’lavery]

Thank you!

It’s such a pain and I didn’t frame for TV in mind. I have successfully cropped it and the quality doesn’t look too terrible, but I’m sure there will be some framing issues they will just have to live with.

Thanks again =)

~Deirdre