Joe Bowden
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Jorge, you will need two DLT tapes, one for each side of the DVD-9. You’ll also need a SCSI card on the PC connected to the DLT device. Then from Encore, choose DVD Master in the Build palette and it will write to the DLT. When the first side is finished, Encore will prompt you for the second tape.
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You’re welcome, Dragi- I’m glad you were able to get it to work.
Try exporting a DVD image from Encore- Nero should be able to burn that as an image with no problem- check their help for how to burn from an image file.
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Aha! I had a feeling it was something like that.
Glad you found it, and thanks for the update.
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Possibly- simplify wherever possible.
Also, you may want to look at one of the subtitle generating apps such as Lemony or Subtitle Workshop, and then import a subtitle script into Encore.
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Check your project settings…all that information should be there, including video codec used, audio bit/sample rate, etc…the more information you can provide, the better. Once we know what kind of file you are trying to use in Encore, we can then make a better assessment of what the problem may be.
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720×480 could be square pixels, or it could be DV 4:3 or 16:9. Which is yours?
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What’s the aspect ratio of the clip? And the pixel aspect ratio?
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That’s why I suggested to simplify your subtitles- break them up into more subtitle clips if you have lots of text per subtitle clip.
It’s really hard to tell exactly how to fix it, but try to keep the number of characters down, say no more than two lines that are half the width of the screen. Don’t use smaller fonts- use more small clips to do it.
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DVD-Video does have limitations on subtitle track frames- they must be 1440 bytes or smaller. It sounds like Encore was tripping up over an error such as this.
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[Steven Simpson] “I need some way of making it load the default DVD player.”
That’s just the problem…many if not most PCs don’t have a software DVD player, unless they came with a DVD burner and assorted software goodies, or these were installed later by the user- and if they do, it’s a different player on different systems.
DVD-Video isn’t a file type, but a folder containing all the parts, so there’s no default application for the file type of course. This might be possible using InterActual player, but that installs files on the user’s system (usually that doesn’t make people happy). You may want to look into that (there may be licensing fees required).