Jerry Waters
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I have both a Z1 and an A1U. Both are in perfect shape and have some extras. When I bought them, they were about all that was out there. I shot a movie with them but now plan to go to 24p cameras exclusively. If you would be interested in used equipment, contact me at:
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In Nero choose “Burn DVD video files.” When that opens, hit the “Add” button and navigate to the place where DVDA created the “Prepare” files. Highlight those folders, both audio and video, and add them. Hit “Finish” and insert your disk, hit “burn”. If you want several copies tell the program how many. The first takes some time. Subsequent copies are faster. Good luck.
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DVDA is DVD hell. It reencodes many files it shouldn’t but you CAN render a file it will not reencode. It depends on what you want to output. Render an mpg2 file using one of the templates – NTSC DVDA video stream. If you are doing widescreen make sure to do that. If you are going to 24p, you MUST encode one of the templates with “pulldown” in it or it will reencode.
After the mpg2 file, do the audio render in AC3 with the SAME FILE NAME. When you open the video file in DVDA it will also pick up the audio.
In DVDA on “Prepare” – do NOT burn in it. Burn the file with Nero or something similar. You will get much better results. Frankly, DVDA should be given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks.
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I think most people burn with Nero. You can encode with DVDA but even there you can easily get into a mess. Incidentally, if DVDA tells you your file is “6.1 gb” when it is much less, that is an error message (apparently the only one DVDA issues for all problems). It could be a render it didn’t like.
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Thanks for the help. I called Adobe about the “DLLs missing” problem and the technician was having to research and call me back.
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No, and that could be the problem. It was already on there so I assumed it picked it up. Of course that is the wrong assumption.
Can you shed any light on the “no plugin DLLs” question? It was trying to do an mpg2 file so am I required to but an mpg2 codec. I already bought it with another program and again made the wrong assumption.
Thanks for the help.
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The same thing happened to me for festival submission. DVDA sucks. Read the post below about “Recommendations for REAL DVD program.”
If going to progressive, you MUST render with the pulldown template to get it to work. Don’t render it “24” because DVDA will say the file is 6.1gb when it is only 3.9. That is DVDAs way of saying “error.” I don’t think it has any other error message.
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Sony says that the problem was I encoded 24 WITHOUT PULLDOWN. Supposedly, if you use pulldown it works but if not DVDA will reencode. Isn’t that strange with Sony and others making 24p cameras? DVDA is written for deinterlaced footage only?
That sounds like huge BS to me written by somebody who wrote the thing and doesn’t want to take responsibility to fixing it.
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Sorry, Mike, but MY version of DVDA shows that it IS REENCODING.
I will go ahead with this but am totally pissed – almost 2 years into a project, deadline close and I can’t get this program to move past a 4 VERSION problem never corrected. -
They are reliable. I bought another company package with similar terms. It took a while but the issuing company handles it. Usually Videoguys posts instructions for upgrade when they have them.