Max Kovalsky
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If there’s only one person who doesn’t have a PC, print out the recipes and mail it to them. I’ve authored a recipe disc once, and it’s a TON of work. If you HAVE to do it, I’d hire a pro and budget at least 2 weeks. The reason is that you’ll have to make menus from all your text with 6-8 lines of text per menu, program and QC all next/back/main buttons, which will easily be in the 100’s, if not 1000’s. Not to mention layout/design preferences and issues.
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Livetype is another forum. What are your sticky points in authoring?
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I totally agree with what’s been said. I work in Scenarist, and it’s ALL about scripting. If you’re not sure what a template script is supposed to do, do not use it. There’s simply no way for you to trouble shoot it. Set up your own scrips at suggested — set your GPRM 0 to x in track prescripts, then set all end jumps to a single script that checks for that GPRM 0, sets highlights and jumps to appropriate menus. We can’t help with what you got — first, dividing and multiplying by 32 is redundant, second we have no idea where your GPRM 0 is set and what it represents.
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I agree with Dave — the speed of your drives is as important, if not more than the processing speed. When shopping around for PC, make sure to get one that has a built-in SATA (with at least 4 ports) or SCSI RAID controller. Reading from one stripe and writing to another will boost your performance by as much as 50%, possibly more.
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This one is the most economical solution, and does what you need — picture-in-picture. Depending on how long you need it, you may be better off renting one.
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I’d call Sonic, but I think they discontinued it. It never quite worked as intended and got a lot of people (myself included) into trouble. As is stands now, there is no way to link to a site from a DVD. There’s DVD@ccess from Apple, but it has the same, even more serious compatibility issues.
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That’s just a fact that SD DVD looks terrible when stretched by as much as a factor of 6. The theory is that adoption of HDTVs will drive the new HD formats – HD DVD and Blu-ray.
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Layout files tell DVDSP’s pre-mastering engine if it’s a DVD 5 or 9 and if 9 where the layer break is. Keeping or deleting them files won’t make much difference, and if you’re burning out of DSP, it won;t include them on the disc anyway.
This may be surprising, but there are still players out there that will not play DVD-Rs, only pressed DVD-Video discs, which is a different beast.
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Eric, I wish this was true. You may be right in that the prices are moving towards 30’s, but that’s for each individual component.
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A little late to the thread… There are a few studios (including BBC America) that have a whole philosophy against using ANY UPS whatsoever – all operations are allowed, everything is skippable. Any prohibition is sure to evoke a negative reaction on the part of the disc owner.
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