Max Kovalsky
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We use Lite-On burners almost daily. Have not had any problems with any so far. I believe you can find one online for under $500 these days. It burns 25GB discs at 2x, and Lite-On has promised a firmware update that will enable dual-layer burning, and single-layer at 4x.
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DVD spec allows 99 parts of title (chapter) in a VTS and 99 VTS’s. So in a tool like Scenarist you have many options to arrange your 600 clips. Bad news is that DVD Studio Pro allows only 99 tracks and stories combined.
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In PS, go to file>new. Select NTSC DV from presets, and select NTSC widescreen 1.2 from the pixel aspect ratio pull-down menu.
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You can’t do it easily in DVD – you’d have to set up different menus for each of your links to emulate the look and sounbd you’re after. To do this in DVDSP, make each button an auto-action that links to another menu with that sound and animation. It will be pretty sluggish, though, but it CAN be done. You could do it seamlessly in Blu-ray, but you’d need Scenarist HDMV to achieve it.
Max
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The problem has nothing to do with DVDSP. It was just a bad burn – some data must have dropped out. See if they’ll accept the files on a USB drive/flash rather than DVD. Much safer way to go. If they don’t, send them more than one DVD next time.
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I used the card for quite a few encodes a while back. The SD1000 is identical to the 2000 as far as quality, and the 2000 was and still is being used on many studio titles. BUT, I don’t remember the card (and driving software) being able to handle transcoding. We had a DigiBeta hooked up to it and the card took in live SDI and audio. We also used it with a Media Composer Avid in “VTR emulation” mode, which pretty much means that the sequence in Avid was considered a deck by the card. If you can do this with FCP, that’s your ticket. You’ll need to put the card in a separate machine, though.
Max
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HDV uses MP@HL profile, and BD specifies only HP@HL as compliant. So far I don’t know of any tool that can change profile of a stream without re-encoding it.
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We haven’t used Encore, but from what I know you can set it to encode your source to AVC (h264) on import. Adobe uses MainConcept’s engine for encoding. We use a stand-alone MC encoder and AVC quality is excellent! So at least in theory, you should be in good shape.
Max
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Warren,
We have the BP-1000 and haven’t had any issues playing BD-Rs on it. Although we haven’t tried Toast, I know that it does support UDF file-system, so most likely you’re not setting up your directory structure correctly. There is no VIDEO_TS in BD but instead a BDMV in the root of your disc. Alternatively, see if encore can make an image. You can then burn it with ImgBurn, a free utility.
Max
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