[Michael Sacci]

The thing that takes so long to install is all the media. Don’t delete that and re install takes about 45 minutes.

As far as the install not taking, hard to say without seeing what you have done. But I would always uninstall Compressor, Qmaster and all that stuff along with it.

[Michael Sacci]

Sorry, I always use Build and Format. There is no difference in doing it as one step verses your 2. But the problem with you way is if you make a change and forget to do the build, DVDSP will burn the disc with the old build without any warning that changes have been made. If you always do a build there is not a problem. Now I don’t always format, so I do proof a build as you state, but when I do to format I use Build and Format as a safety net. If you have not made any changes it doesn’t add but a couple of seconds to the process.

What is a problematic process is the BURN function. People do have problem with that.

Using build in Toast is a good procedure but I don’t use Toast that much anymore. I have had less then 5 bad burns in DVDSP in the past several years and hundreds of disc made.

Totally agree with always unchecking “Lossless Linking” with they had made that the default. Asked for that for years.

[Michael Sacci]

you are correct about programs De-interlacing on the fly.

Check your settings there is a change you are simply swapping fields, whatever your captured field order is, make sure that is the setting for your m2v encode.

[Michael Sacci]

If you want real answers give real information and settings. If you cannot there is no way to help you.

Did you test the way I said?

[Michael Sacci]

Quality cannot be judged in Simulator, test a build in DVD Player software or better burn a disc.

You need to give more info. What did you make the mpeg movie? Is it a m2v? What is your source files?

[Michael Sacci]

I have an old Sonic encoder system, not used in a long long time. If you mapped the 5 channels of audio to a 5 channel surround on capture, then you rip it to the five discreet audio and then recode it to give you the 5 tracks for authoring, that would be faster ripping a DVD. You maybe able to capture as PCM also but I don’t know if the incoming would be converted to a stereo.

Are you in the US? If you want to figure out if this would be a solution contact me off forum at onthecow (at) michaelangelodv (dot) com.

[Michael Sacci]

Is that not what I said. While stories are quick and easy, scripting is cleaner. Some players do not display things like time when in a story. Not a big deal and I do use them.

But thanks for flexing your muscles and touting your superior knowledge.

[Michael Sacci]

Sure you can do that unless your have to sacrifice quality to fit to on a disc. You can set a story up to do it also. No extra space and the story can have its own end jump.

But the right way is to script it and end jump to the script.

[Michael Sacci]

NOPE, DVD menus will always be 720×480 and displayed at 72 dpi. The problem is that an overlay is a lot lower resolution, that is why things stair step so easily. If you look at Hollywood DVDs you will find very few Text buttons and when you do they are normally big and bold with heavy borders that find the edges. Another issue you have is that quality goes down depending on how the DVD is hooked up to a TV, If the user is using composite vs component it will look even worse and probably will not line up. It is the nature of the beast.

The best solution is to have a light color for text and then a heavy stroke border, then on the overlay the is more more than 11 or 12 about 75% opaque. The other way is to use another color or shade of gray to act as anti-liasing and you step down the transparency but use the same color. Using black as your text color will give you a little bit of this automatically.

So black = blue 13
Dark gray = blue at 11
light gray = blue at 9

Your text overlay should look sharper.

[Michael Sacci]

mp4 is simply a movie codec, it doesn’t do anything.

If you are on the web you will need to use html and what not. Abode Flash or products like that. One feature the Encore has it will convert your DVD (developed in Encore) and make it a web site. That maybe the easiest way to get what you need.