Max Kovalsky
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It could be that DSP 4 is not finding assets. I’d put all original assets and project file on an external drive, open it in DSP 3, relink, save as. And try opening that new saved-as project in DSP 4 from the same drive.
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I believe the authoring tools for both formats are decided, but not the formats themselves. Compression standard on the mid to high end is Sonic’s Cinevision, which can compress for both formats. The tool is priced at $80K. Authoring for Blu-ray is done either with Sony’s Blu-print or Sonic’s Scenarist HDMV (which is what we’re using), both are at $50K. For HD DVD, you need to hand-write the code. Scenarist HD DVD ACA ($50K) and DoStudio ($250/month and our choice here) can both help you with muxing your streams. Word of warning: learning curve for both compression and authoring is very steep.
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Then of course Walmart and BestBuy stores had $100 HD DVD player sale yesterday (I’m sure at a premium subsidy from Microsoft). Stores got around 50 players each and were all sold out within 15 minutes. We’ll see what kind of numbers the HD DVD group will publish in the upcoming days.
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There’s DVD Re-author. It will break apart all the elements and assemble them in a SCN (Scenarist) file. You may not need the SCN, but you’ll get all your elements out of it.
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As far as sales of commercial titles, last quarter showed a tie with Blu-ray at 51% and HD DVD at 49%. As far as corporate communications, screeners and other types of one-offs, Blu-ray so far has a clear advantage – the near 100% compatibility of BD-R media (given it’s properly authored as HDMV). We’ve been burning 25GB discs for almost a year now, so BD has been the way to go for smaller jobs. This will probably shift as HD DVD burners start to hit the US market. Our facility, by the way, will soon be among the first in the US to acquire an HD DVD burner.
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A subtitle shop may be able to do the conversion for you, but it may make sense just to time the subs from scratch in a program like BelleNuit or Sub Workshop. For a feature, this should take less than a day.
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Yes, but you have to write the SPRM 1 (current audio stream) into a GPRM first. It’d be: mov SPRM1 to GPRM1; if GPRM1=0 (track 1), then X, etc.
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HD DVD spec only allows for 29.97 video. Make sure that’s what you’re encoding.
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Gambit, why don’t you send me an email off list? (max@area4.tv)
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Sounds like xilisoft encodes the video at too high of bitrates, which makes your player choke. See if you can change the bitrate setting to lower in preferences. Otherwise, try a standalone encoder to make your mpeg2s.
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