Michael Sacci
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Slu,
I have an old Sonic Solution SD2000 card and a computer that can run it. My version for a Mac and it only runs on OS9. I can sell a turnkey system so it really doesn’t matter what system is it. This card has reverse telecine and segment based recoding.
The only advantage of any hardware encoder card is if you are coming from a tape (which is what you said you where doing) You don’t capture and then encode it all happens in one step. But the card is only for encoding for DVD authoring.
If you are interested contact me at onthecow (at) michaelangelodv (dot) com.
Once again Hardware encoder does not give you better than software but it gives you professional quality at real time from tape masters. I will let this go cheap, I just need to replace the computer with any intel mac, a used iMac intel would be fine.
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Even if you did it the way Bill states, it would be unbearably slow. DVD menus where meant to be simple. Look at even huge budget DVDs you will only find a handful that have tried anything semi-creative with menu function. Design cool motion menus but stay in the simple overlay method for buttons.
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#1, that is the way they work, no way around it with ps layered menus. YOu need to use overlays for the menu to work on a set top and computer the same. Of course when you go to overlays you have to use simple shapes and only 3 colors/shades of gray.
Take a look at every hollywood DVD, you will not find hardly any with fancy buttons.
#2, you need to find out what software they are using, you really have no control over this unless you are going from a 16:9 video to a 4:3 menu or the other way around. WIndows is a mess because there are so many options that are not true DVD players. If the client is only using WMPlayer have them try it on a true DVD player app.
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that is but a DVD is SD (and it is 720×480, there is no 420).
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Your DVD will always end up being mpeg2 elementary streams.
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There should be no confusion about H264, you NEVER use it for a DVD project.
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The only thing you can do on a Mac is burn HD video so it can be played on a Blu-ray player, there is no real authoring. Compressor 3.5 can burn a playable BD. Adobe Encore do a little better but it is still very limited. Toast 10 with BluRay plugin is in-between the two. None of them can produce anything that can be replicated. (there is a 3rd party app that can convert the encore folder to be replicatable).
If you want to do real authoring you need to look at DoStudio which is Window’s only.
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You are wrong and this has been posted about hundreds of times. H264 should NEVER be used in the SD DVD workflow. DVDs are always m2v video, using H264 just adds a bunch of time and greatly reduces final quality.
Since there are already too many HD to SD DVD workflow post I just ask you to search the forum.
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It makes no sense to work with a video resolution like that. SD DVD is 720×480 WS period. You work with that resolution but that is what is going to be on the disc. If you create your video and graphics to be 4:3 safe, you chose 16:9 Pan and Scan and the DVD will play the video full screen on a 4:3 screen, but you lose the left and right of the image. If it is not produced 4:3 you have to live with letterboxing.
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That is what does not work, with any software (most of which have be left to die).
If you want you simple put a menu that tells people that there are files on the disc in a folder names “x”
BTW, you add the DVD-ROM material in DVDSP without going to DVD@ccess. It is the linking that causes the problems.