[Peter Berthet]

couldnt agree more 🙂

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

you could always pay 3 times the price for adobe premiere and have 10 times the issues getting the job done 😛

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

i could counter tim… but in this case i agree with you 🙂

i wish people would make a decent case when they bash the software … sigh

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

use apple quicklook

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

I laughed a little 🙂

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

are you running the latest CS4 updates ?

how large is your project?

what sort of media are you using ? SD/HD 1080i ? HDV ?

more system specs please!

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Its true but andrew has demonstrated he has in fact burnt successfully a DVD which will play on 3 of 4 machines by my count.

Suggesting that he author the disc again at a lower speed is a waste of his time and media.
While its true that faster burn speeds can generate coasters Logic concludes that if 3 of 4 machines play the disc then the 4th machine, in this case the Sony; is at fault; not the disc.

Given that i spent 6 years selling the things from their early stages when they ALL refused to play home-brew discs (excluding discs authored in the sony machine); Its a safe bet that andrew hasnt done anything wrong and his client is simply guilty of not updating their player.

In fact the only early run machines to play 3rd party or home authored DVDs were the Panasonics and some pioneer models; Sony have ALWAYS been a pain in the arse with copy protection on their hardware, punishing the end-user rather than stopping piracy.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

IMO, it doesnt matter what speed you burn a single layer (DL is a completely different story) disc at these days, assuming one uses decent quality discs.

Ive just finished burning 20 single layer DVDs at maximum speed (12x) and didnt have a single fail using verbatim discs.

I strongly believe andrews problem relates to the DVD recorder his client is using, rather than the media hes created the DVDs with.

we have near on 15 DVD players of varying brands and age in our office and its well established that some of the older ones simply will NOT play authored DVDs from encore, nero, or .. well, anything. Yet i can go and put these same discs in any of the computers or other dvd players and they work fine.

To put it simply, if the disc burns successfully, and it plays in 3 out of 4 different DVD drives/players. Then your disc is fine.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Alternatively the DVD Recorder that your client using dislikes authored dvds and identifies them as ‘copied’ media and simply wont play them, the older the player the more common this problem is.

Theyve gradually phased it out on newed dvd players cause .. well its a pain in the arse.
But Sony were the worst for that on a lot of their early model recorders and players. (unless of course the disc was burnt ON that particular recorder)

Gotta love sony..

Ask if your client has another player they can try, if the disc worked for you on your systems and not on the DVD player they have, its not the disk (clearly). Thus the player becomes the problem.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Cathy it depends entirely on the work your doing, a client may want a job done in HD, or SD. So that will play a major role in which resolution you choose to go with.
Depending on which you choose, video file size and performance requirements on your computer WILL increase.
With this in mind, using a non standard resolution like 640×360; while not detrimental will not yield ideal results if say, you were making a standard definition DVD for a client who were to play it on a SD widescreen tv.
Ideally for standard definition you want to go with 720×480, as it will display correctly on a television set.

Its likely that your TV is up-scaling your 640×360 video to fit the screen. What this means is that your losing pixel information in the process, as the native resolution of an SD tv is in fact 720×576. so its essentially doubling or discarding some lines to fit the image to the screen and display it correctly.

All in all it comes down to what the client wants. Be it SD or HD, you may even need to update your system to something faster as HD becomes more standard.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia