Neil Wilkes
Forum Replies Created
-
EDIT.
I lied – sort of.
You can use CSS/Macrovision (If Licensed) when creating a DDP or CMF image to DVD-ROM, but the disc will not be playable. -
You cannot use any form of copy protection on any form of written media.
Written media works in sector sizes of 2048 blocks, but encryption uses 2054 block sizes.
You must either
A – Write to a DLT tape, or
B – Write to a folder, and import this folder into a DDP capable application where you can add Copy Protection & write the master on DDP-DVD or CMF-DVD.CSS is free, and all you add are flags that the replication house sorts out.
Macrovision requires the authoring house to be licensed, carries a setup fee & a per disc royalty.
ARcoSS has a setup fee & a per disc royalty, but no flags need setting. Just tell the replication company you want it. -
No idea.
As I said, I have submitted countless images on DLT from Encore and never had one rejected. -
Not really.
The XMPSES file generated by Premiere will have the chapter points embedded with reference to the timecode of the clip they were created in.
As clip 1 will be starting at 00:00:00;00 then this will maintain the chapter points.
Unless you start the timecode in Premiere as other than zero, it will not automatically offset the points.
How could it! -
You’re lucky.
Vista is an unsupported OS. -
No Idea.
All I can state is that we have had many projects authored with Encore, and replicated with no trouble at all. -
Your problem is almost certainly using NTSC type MPEG audio, which is an optional stream & cannot be used as Audio stream #1 in NTSC.
You should change this to either Dolby Digital or PCM.
Be warned though that transcoding MPEG audio to Dolby Digital will inevitably introduce not only quality loss, but artefacts as you will be perceptually encoding a file that has already been perceptually encoded. -
DVDSP is a ghastly application for all it’s “advanced” features, and this is IMHO caused by the Abstraction Layer getting in the way (As are most authoring problems that are not pilot error).
It fudges the specs in several areas, this being one of them. -
Not owning eDVD (It has all but vanished completely, as Sonic have completely discontinued it owing to the fact it will not work at all in Vista) So this is assumptions based on reading other people’s posts.
You create your usual DVD with Encore.
Then make a folder as your final export.
Then load this into eDVD for the weblinks & enhancements
Then you would need to create a DLT from the altered version.
Usual way would be to launch Encore, go straight to “Make DVD Master”, and select the modified Video_TS folder as the source for the DLT – and do not forget to point Encore to the correct ROM folder either.
Then you can create your DLT.Hope this helps.
-
It’s also quite possible all your menu sizes are screwed.
PAL = 720×576 and NTSC = 720×480.
They also use a different Pixel Aspect Ratio:
NTSC = 0.9, PAL = 1.0166.Additionally, I would not trust Nero as far as I could throw the installer disc.
It’s only any use for burning DVD from images, and should never be used to create the disc from a folder. It’s asking for trouble!