Eric Pautsch
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Impossible to tell without looking at the entire disc structure. Best to reauthor in a more professional tool like DVDSP unless you really know the spec and how to manipulate the abstraction code in MyDVDEdit.
Try DVD Lab on the PC – its only $200.
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What kind of issues?
Here’s the only site I know of:
https://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/index.php
You’re limited on a Mac. Might want to move to a PC to get more authoring tool options. DVD Lab Pro is great for $200.
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Create your menu background and drop it into DVDSP, draw a button without an 8bit overlay and set that button’s target to your track.
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You need to design a new menu from scratch.
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You are limited to 1G of space per VTSM or in the VGM. You need to remove some assets from that VTSM and move them to another.
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Look in the manual under disabling User Operations.
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Cool! Nice to know those Samsungs will play 50i discs!
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Yes
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Several mistakes you are making here:
1. You do not send a DVD-R to a replication plant. Output a DDP image and stick this on a pen drive and deliver that. DVDSP allows this very important step – so use it! 🙂 There can be burn issue on a burnable format as well.
2. Using the Max bitrate can be an issue. Newbies often crank this up think its their path to the best quality disc. DVD has a limit of 9.8 mb/s (just over 10 mb/s for audio and video combinbed). But since all encoders will introduce some kind of bitrate spiking, you just might go over that limit.
The link from the Cow you shared is about the worst advice I’m seen on here!
Compression is give and take. There are so many variables: source quality, length of the film and the encoder itself. Some encoders are awful and Compressor is one of them (my opinion only)
My advice is to do some testing with different bitrates so see if you notice differences. But first you need to do a bit budget with a calcualtor. There are several available on-line. This will give you the optimun bitrate for the length of material you have on the title. Based on what you posted, Id say go with a CBR bitrate of around 8 mb/s and be done with it. But it all depends on what you are encoding. Its also important to get a bitrate viewer and make sure your bitrates are the 9.8 ceiling – do a search for one of those on line as well.
Bitrates don’t matter to replication facilities
When you replicate it allows you to apply the DVD-Video logo.
Replcation facilities dont need the same tool you author in. They just take the info off the disc and start presses plastic.
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I like Verbatims. Do a google to get prices and where to buy.