[Eric Pautsch]

Your layer break point is set at the wrong location. Layer 0 needs to be larger than layer 1 but it can’t go over the 4.7 limit of course. Look in the manual under setting your break point. come back with more questions if you need the help 🙂

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[Eric Pautsch]

Not much for free. You might find something here:

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/authoring-dvd

[Eric Pautsch]

Value of what? A Track? I don’t get your question? 🙂

[Eric Pautsch]

Like lukeny said…DVDLab is, by far, the most feature-packed tool available for the money. You could use Encore but it doesn’t come close to DVDLab’s advanced feature like you were asking for.

You could try Scenarist or Creator but your looking at an investment of 10s of thousands of dollars while the learning curve runs way more than a week 🙂

DVDSP is great but its mac only and you have to buy the complete FCP bundle to get it.

All DVD tools will loop a menu so if thats all you need you don’t have to look far.

[Eric Pautsch]

For the money you can’t do better than DVD Lab. For the custom motion grpahics and menus you’ll need a compositing program like After Effects or Motion and Photoshop..

https://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html

[Eric Pautsch]

Sonic Cinevsion (m2v,VC-1,AVC), Cinemacraft (AVC) are upwards of $50-75,000.
Compressor, Main Concepts, Sorenson are examples and cheaper alternative but won’t give you the same quality

[Eric Pautsch]

Yes…that looks like a great tool!…I plan on getting my license in September. It writes HDi for you but you still need to code your own ECMAScripts. All advanced HD authoring tools need to be like this…eventually I think they will. Hand coding is really inefficient.

[Eric Pautsch]

Are you looking for a tool to just do basic menus with no interactivity or are you talking about interactivity like titles you buy in stores?

Your looking at a heavy investment. At this point all HD DVD and BD titles need to be hand coded. There is no “point and click” HD DVD or BD tool at this point. There are several consumer tools like DVDitPro, DVDSP, Encore and Ulead.

These links should help a little:

HD DVD

https://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/pages/hd-dvd-resources.aspx

Blu Ray & HD DVD

https://www.hdcookbook.com/

[Eric Pautsch]

Is that 6.2 CBR or VBR? If its VBR what is your max bitrates? Yes..there is a definite relation to audio and overall bitrate. DVD allows an overall bitrate of 9.8 for both video and audio combined.
AIF audio takes up about 1.5mb/s of space while AC3 only takes up .192mb/s depending on what setting your using – but .192 is fine for most jobs. So you can see, if your video bitrates jump up into the 8+ range (even for a short time) you could have problems using AIF.

Here’s a link for DVDSP

https://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=31809

How much video do you have? What tools are you using? I usually will use a CBR encode of around 6.5 or so with 1 hour of video.

[Eric Pautsch]

What’s your bitrate? It’s ALWAYS a good idea to use AC3 audio as well – it takes up less bandwidth giving you more space for a higher bitrate in the video.