[Eric Pautsch]

Yeah…I agree with Noah. I’d make those audio files AC3 at this point. Don’t go to replication without being completely sure what your doing here.

[Eric Pautsch]

Popped up means they are record inhibited. Also check the menu settings.

[Eric Pautsch]

Yes…Christopher is right. If you have the original assets, do the editing, then convert back to AC3. I assumed you no longer had the original uncompressed files. If not, then you’ll need to convert to an editable format, add your effects and encode back to AC3.

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[Eric Pautsch]

Do a google search for “ac3 to wav”. Here’s one tool that comes up:

https://www.riverpast.com/en/support/tutorials/convert/ac3/aif.php

[Eric Pautsch]

You’ll need a tool like MPEG Stream Clip to convert those VOBs to an editable format:

https://www.squared5.com/

[Eric Pautsch]

Totally Off Topic but this isn’t the Tyler Smith who rides Ghost Tree and Mavericks is it?

Eric

[Eric Pautsch]

Are these digital file or projects you can put onto tape? Tape is the cheapest, longest lasting and reliable archiving medium. It would seem to be the greenest but I can’t be sure about that.

Blu Ray is a very expensive archive medium at this point. On top of that it has had no real world testing since its such a new technology. Look at a recent post on the DVDSP forum about some guy who seems to missing data from some of his discs.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/155/869969

For the price of a burner and a blank disc you could get yourself 2 Terabytes of HDD space that would take but less space than a stack of BD-R discs.

Not sure what goes into HDD production but you’d be surprised how much toxins are involved in BD production – especially at replication plants. Huge amounts of waste and blown discs are required before you start getting good discs. I’m assuming the same might be the case in producing BD-Rs?

So if you concerned about being “green” I’d probably go the HDD route. It’s 5x cheaper as well.

[Eric Pautsch]

Thanks Max…you can set a GPRM and link in a single button command?

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[Eric Pautsch]

Several ways to do this…here ‘s one. You’ll need to put the value of SPRM 8 (button highlight) into a GPRM. Then based on which button was chosen, set the correct audio stream in the title PGC.

1. Set GPRM 0, SPRM 8
2. Div GPRM 0, 1024
3. Jump Title

Pre-command of title PGC

1. go to 3 if GPRM 0=1
2 go to 5 if GPRM 0=2
3 Set system stream 1
4 Link PG
5 Set system stream 2
6 Link PG

There are other ways to do this (and maybe better depending who you talk too). It also depends on which Domain your menus are as well and how your entire title functionality is set up.

[Eric Pautsch]

eDVD is no longer supported. In fact I don’t think there is any supported software that does this kind of work. You could try Intellidisc but not sure of it’s current status. There is DVDAccess for the Mac but do a search on that and you’ll find loads of problems.

https://www.intellidisc.com/

DVD and the web were never meant to go together. It always required some kind of third party software…like Interactual Player – which is now supported by Vista. Since so many variables exist studios abandoned it several years ago due to all the player issues. In fact I flat out refuse the work if someone asks – to many unhappy clients even after I explained the compatibility problems.