Max Kovalsky
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Go to either LA411.com or Newyork411.com and look under DVD authoring in the post section. Many of these companies will have one or more dedicated author on staff.
Max
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Exactly. The reason is that people who work in the DVD industry are specialists – a menu designer usually can’t author, compressionist has no interest in design, and the author’s head is too full of code to think about graphics and video quality. There are also QC specialists who know a little about it all, but probably couldn’t put a disc together on their own. If they’re looking for one person to do all, their volume is likely to be low and their clients are probably not quality-obsessive, both of which will translate to a low salary.
Max
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You’d have to do your subtitling outside of the authoring app. I know many subtitling shops use FAB, which can easily offset the starting time-code once titles are finished.
Max
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It depends what kind of work (i.e. level of clientele), your location, your level of experience and your reel if you’re also doing graphics. I’ve seen rates range from $12/hr to $60/hr in New York alone. If they’re looking for a one-man-show, I would expect their rate to be on the lower end.
Max
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In most cases authoring studios rely on specialty subtitling shops, which in turn use FAB subtitler. FAB can output the BDN and PNGs and also cross-convert any format to any other.
Max
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Steve,
In a BDN, you have to specify x/y coordinates for each title. These are based on the resolution of your video, which will likely be 1920×1080. I am not sure you can do this in STL at all, but if you can, your x/y will probably relate to a 720×480 screen.
Also, the subtitle files themselves are PNGs with alpha. In STL, you had to specify color mapping (white = transparency, red = white, etc..), with PNGs for BD what you see is what you get. If the disc is authored in Scenarist, the PNGs need to be parsed through their Designer tool before they will import into Scenarist. Not sure about the Blu-print workflow.
Hope this helps.
Max
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New York
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Don’t know much about DVDit, but if it’s a strictly burning error, you should build an image to hard-drive and burn with ImgBurn.
Max
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Good idea. I advised Tim to get a BD forum going a few months back, but things have changed since.
Max
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Most authoring houses use specialty shops for subtitle creation. They know how to use the 4 available colors to anti-aliase (get rid of the pixelation you’re describing), prepare TIFFs and placing script for most authoring apps.
Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
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Most authoring houses use specialty shops for subtitle creation. They know how to use the 4 available colors to anti-aliase (get rid of the pixelation you’re describing), prepare TIFFs and placing script for most authoring apps.
Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv