Jon Geddes
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There are some players that just don’t play any burned discs, period. I have one of the first dvd players ever released in the US, and it has this problem.
However, if their player supports burned media, and its just your disc it won’t read, you could try some methods to improve your compatibility. First of all, you could try burning at a slower speed. If you are burning a single layer, you could try 4x. For dual layer, you never want to burn faster than 2.4x.
If this doesn’t help, you could always try a different brand of disc, such as Taiyo Yuden.
And the last thing you could try, is burning it on a DVD+R with the Booktype set to DVD-ROM. This creates a disc that is more compatible than DVD-R, but requires that your burner supports it (most of them do). To change the booktype, your burning software needs to support it, or you can download a program that will make all your applications change the booktype when burning DVD+R discs. If you just burn regular DVD+R without changing the booktype, it is less compatible than DVD-R. Booktype can only be changed on DVD+R discs.
All the dvds that we burn for clients are on DVD+R discs with the modified booktype. This creates the most compatible type of burned disc possible.
Jon Geddes
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Encore has far better integration with Photoshop than any other authoring program. It makes authoring so much more efficient if you are creating your own menus (still or motion). DVD Studio Pro does have the advantage of scripting though, which allows for some complex programming to be done with your dvd, however the average person doing authoring never even makes use of it. It also has better default menu templates than encore, however if you are using advanced motion menus like the ones I have available at https://www.precomposed.com , you won’t be using the default templates anyways.
For complete control over every aspect of the dvd specifications, you will want to use a program like Scenarist. It is very expensive, less intuitive than DVDSP or Encore, but gives you complete control if you know what you are doing.
Most of the other authoring applications are designed to be very user friendly, but seriously lack control (almost like using an AOL browser to browse the internet, once you know anything about computers, you wouldn’t be caught dead using it)
Jon Geddes
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Let me just try and clarify that for Jawaad:
For your button highlights to use 2 different colors for the same button, you must create a separate layer for each color in photoshop, and prefix the first one with (=1) and the second one with (=2).
You should create a layer for the stroke. Assuming you applied the stroke as a layer effect, right click on the little ‘fx’ to the right of the layer in the layer panel, and select ‘Create Layer’. Rename that stroke layer so it is prefixed with (=2). You can now change the colors separately in Encore using the ‘Edit Menu Color Set’. To modify the automatic colors, create a new color set.
Jon Geddes
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Blu-ray players connect to tv’s through digital connections (such as HDMI), so there is no overscan. You don’t really have to worry about title safe areas, however, you shouldn’t place text that close to the edge anyways. If you’ve ever taken an art class that covers composition and layout, you would know thats a design no-no (looks bad).
Jon Geddes
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You are correct, however most people don’t use the arrow keys to navigate the menu on a computer.
Jon Geddes
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You need a separate layer for the reverse side of the Book. You should read this tutorial that explains the expression you need to use:
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/invisible-facing-away.html
Basically, you need to give an expression to the opacity of each layer so its not visible when facing away from the camera:
if (toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ) value else 0
Jon Geddes
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That is not supported by the dvd spec, but you can do it using some workarounds.
You can create a separate menu for each button, and use the auto-activate function with the buttons when navigating. This workaround would only work on set top dvd players and not software dvd players (on a computer). It’s not an ideal way to author a menu, but if you are still interested let me know, because its more complicated to setup than you think.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
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If you haven’t already, you might also want to try turning on motion blur for the picture layers in addition to what Jeff suggested.
Jon Geddes
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You will either need:
1) A DVD Recording Unit that will capture through firewire straight to dvd2) A Hardware capture device for your computer that allows you to capture straight to m2v. On the PC, the old Matrox RTX100 use to offer this, but their newer RTX2 does not.
Jon Geddes
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If there is, I don’t know anyone that uses it. Most of us who require the highest quality transcoding don’t use adobe products (Main Concept Encoder) at all, and instead use Cinema Craft Encoder, Procoder, or TMPGEnc.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com