Leigh Jewell
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Design the menu at 960×534. Re-size to 720×480 (image will be anamorphic). For a Pan-Scan sub – take the 960×534 image, change the canvas to 720×534, then re-size to 720×480. For a letterboxed sub, re-size to 720×360 then change the canvas to 720×480.
HTH.
Leigh
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I don’t really use DVDSP that much since I have a different authoring system. However, here’s an article from Ken Stone from last year explaining how to do it.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dual_layer_media_gary.htmlLeigh
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Best advice is to buy a dual-layer burner. If you are making check discs for the client, recompressing it to fit on a single layer isn’t making a true check disc.
Be aware, though, that dual-layered burned discs still have some compatibility problems.Leigh
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Thanks, Jeremy. Unfortunately I already had those codecs. Even tech support at AJA couldn’t figure out what it was.
Leigh
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There are only a few fonts that have the circle P available. HypatiaSansPro and Lucida Grande do as well as Apple Symbols.
The only way that I have found to access the character is to open Special Characters from the Edit Menu in the finder. It will be under Letterlike Symbols. Choose the font you want to use. Go to Photoshop, while in type mode double click on the character in Finder’s Character Palette.
(I’m on a Mac using Photoshop CS3 and this worked fine.)HTH
Leigh
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Toast would be a good program to use. The program that you are currently using may also work just fine. Since you said that it will play once you navigate to the files, it sounds like the correct files are there. A couple of things to check: make sure that you are writing the disc as UDF not as a mac disc. This would certainly cause a DVD player to not know how to play it. Also make sure that the Video_TS and the Audio_TS are at the root level of the disc – that is, they aren’t buried in a folder.
My best guess, though, is that you are burning it as a mac disc.HTH
Leigh
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Use the free program MPEG Streamclip – https://www.squared5.com/
it will convert the VOBs to MPEG2 files in one fell swoop and you don’t lose any quality as long as you keep it at MPEG2. You can also rip the menu though since you are adding a button, you may still have to go into a program like Photoshop. Actually, you should be adding 2 buttons – one to turn the subtitles on and one to turn them off.Leigh
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Well, I really wish this was a simple case of Drop, Non-Drop and since I’ve been working in this business since BetaSPs and 1″ was a master format, I do know about the whole issue. I really loved it when you finally didn’t have to tell Final Cut what you were capturing.
I open the file in the Browser, it says that it is non-drop. In my timeline preferences, the sequence is non-drop. I set-up the machine that I captured from and I set it to output non-drop.Thanks.
(Have read the manual front to back and back to front from version 1.)
Leigh
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This may be a stupid question, but in the “Edit to Tape” window, did you tell it that you want to do video and audio. Next to the video icon, there is an audio channel icon which tells it which channels you want to output.
You also haven’t really said what trouble-shooting you have done. Can you do an assemble edit and have the audio channels go to tape?Leigh
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I’m assuming that you are not going to be replicating (ie. creating a glass master and pressing) the discs.
If you are going to be just burning the discs, the compatibility level for dual-layer discs are still not that great.
If you want to play it safe, go for the 2 disc set.Leigh