Neil Wilkes
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It is.
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This is going to be one of those things that will work for some users and not for others.
A 32 bit Vista installation will give you more likelihood of a working setup, but until it is officially supported, I suspect actual real-world usability will vary from person to person.As far as supporting Vista with the 2.0 production bundle, it will take an update to get proper support included as Vista did not exist when this package was released.
Most software is still not Vista compatible yet, and the smart money is waiting until SP1 for Vista – let others iron out all the wrinkles first! -
As Joe Bowden says – you cannot use the M2T file natively in EncoreDVD.
You need to export as an AVI first – there are detailed instructions on this at the Cineform website.It might seem like an un-necessary step, and it may appear that it would be better to do the whole process all in one go in Encore.
Trust me, the quality will be higher going to the interim AVI format. Trying to go from HDV to MPEG-2 usually ends up looking a bit of a dogs dinner by comparison, and all the major authoring & Production houses using HDV use an interim export. -
One of the golden rules of Audio is to never – under any circumstances – mix sample rates.
So, before doing anything you should ensure that all sample rates are at 48KHz.
Second rule of Audio is that when you decode a perceptually encoded file – such as one of these ghastly MP3 things – to PCM, and then re-encode to another lossy format, like MPEG audio, you will inevitably get artifacts and often these noises due to recompressing already heavily compressed material.
About all you can do to minimize the effects are to
1 – Not use MP3
2 – If you must use MP3, do not re-export as MPEG audio.
3 – Export at 16/48 LPCM. Then allow the DVD authoring application to create DOlby Digital files, but again be aware that you may still end up with artifacts.
4 – where possible, use uncompressed PCM as your Audio source.Good Audio will never happen from MP3.
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See your other post.
What you need are Chapter Playlists – they will be your new Best Friend. -
How is this set up?
The best way is to first remove all end actions on the chapters.
Next, create a series of Chapter Playlists – one for each chapter.
Link the play all button to the main timeline
Link each of the chapter buttons to the correct chapter playlist
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This is a limitation of interlaced displays over progressive (IE, computer) displays.
There is nothing at all you can do about this apart from be aware of it, learn what you can & cannot get away with, and work within the restrictions.Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings here…..
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I think that you have another problem here.
If Act 1 is 52 minutes, and Act 2 is 62 minutes, it will always cut Act 2.
Dual Layer discs will always want to place more data on Layer 0 than Layer 1.
It is the way the specs are written.
You simply cannot have more data to Layer 1 – the discs are created in OTP (Opposite Track Path) so that the laser starts at the middle and works out. When it hits the layer break, it refocusses to the inner layer, (Layer 1) and starts running inwards again.
SO, by specs, you cannot have more data on Layer 1 than on Layer 0. -
Don’t hold your breath on Blu Ray or HD DVD.
It just isn’t going to replace SD DVD for at least 3 to 5 years, and even then will not have even close to the same market penetration as SD DVD does already.
Adobe would be mad to develop for either format yet, as the expense is considerable, and nobody knows what is going to happen.
Even Sony are now saying Blu Ray is going to be more of a games format than a movie one…. -
Jeff is 100% correct.
This is overscan entirely.
All CRT sets do this to some degree, and DVD is not the same as SVCD is. Both use MPEG-2 for video, but that is as far as the comparison really goes.
Also, you will have noticed that a computer monitor does not overscan, so you cannot test this any way apart from using RW discs to keep the coaster bills down.Good Luck.