Phoenix Studios
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hi, i can’t find the pdf for netrender, but I am wondering if someone can help me get this set up on a lan: i have 3 or 4 machines on the lan via router. So i set the c4d machine as the server and all others i autostart render client on? then when i do a render in c4d, it automagically uses the resources of the other machines and not the c4d machine? thanks!!!
jigs -
i hear ur pain, I am having the same problem but I use different disks and mostly DVD+R. there seems to be a complicated relationship between the burner, the media, and the end-reader, whatever that may be. CDFreaks website is a great place to read all about it, as is The Firmware Page. Here is one techie article I just plowed through:
https://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113
but none of this really helps us, poor content creators. We just want a technology that works, all the time, anywhere. Unfortunalty, there are not very many technologies that can boast that.I had a thought once to test DVDs, or at least the masters, using NERO test tool, but even that software was not consistent. By the way, it seems that Lite-On drives get high marks for burn quality, so we have about 6 or 7 of them here. Still, problems exits. I had one the other day that just died after about 6 months of service.
Anyway, it would be nice to read an article on bulletproofing the burn process….
jigs -
hate to be a pest, but i need a way to “package a project” and archive it. I realized too late that the “save as” function does not collect all the resources and place them in a new Sources dir, only some of them. Audio, pics for slideshows, others? are not collected. So what to do? I was expecting a function like PPRO has for managing projects, I guess that was silly eh? thanks!
jigs -
Hi joe, thanks for that thought. I guess the “western” market is like that, but here in Asia SVCD still reins as it’s 1/10 the cost to produce. So that means a lower sale price at the pump. But as you point out, its not futuristic.
But what I need is a way to convert now, but it seems there is none on the market that takes the DVD, menus and all, and just batches the whole thing into a VCD. I guess our studio will just have to bite the rupee and deliver on DVD for this one. That means we will have to spend 100 rupees on each promo vs. 10. I could recreate the entire menu system in say Nero, but it will never look as good, and would take more time then it’s worth (perhaps).
Ke garne,
jigs -
hi, thanks for that, but i guess my real question is how can i do this without having to reconstruct the encore meny system, which is so grand. I guess the answer is ya can’t. I can import the DVD into a NERO project, and it transcodes all the assets ok, but requires me to build a whole new menu system for the SVCD. Arg… only if Adobe had thought of this.
jigs -
thanks for that, but i understand that! i want to know which tool/procedure to use to take the DVD and convert to SVCD or VCD, my market here (nepal) is still VCD based, heck, people still play cassettes here! any tips?
thanks,
jigs in nepal -
no help on this one yet? I really need to crank out some VCD/SVCD from this project soon! thanks,
jigs -
Just posted some thoughts on this here…but basically making the project settings match ie. DV PAL or NTSC, and then spitting out uncompressed video from the timeline for import into Encore. There is a recompress checkbox that is on by default in PPRO, turn that off. Optimize stills, etc. Let Encore do all the transcoding. Does the video look good before Encore? I have Canopus Procoder2 in PPRO 1.5, so no matter what, output is always great (unless the shots suck). In PPRO2 you can transcode from there to test to see if what you are getting out of Encore is any different, but in 1.5 I never had any luck making great VOBs without Canopus. luck,
jigs -
hi i am not an expert here just a user who just put together my first encore project (promo for AV studio) and what i did was just matched the project settings in PPRO, ie DV PAL to the same in Encore and spit out dv PAL avi’s. worked great. But I don’t think it matters, you can transcode in Premiere, Ie. make a VOB there, and put that in the Encore project and it knows not to transcode it again. I’m impressed. luck,jigs
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well i do the same thing but i use BORIS RED and Premiere 1.5, and no problems there. Are you letting Encore do the transcoding for you? I just run out normal DV PAL (no recompress) import that and let Encore do the transcoding, sharp as a tack – EXCEPT – for a few clips that i had as flash source, which I had to use AfterEffects2 to convert to AVI (it’s the only tool that I have that does that, I think…) and the images were clear but the entire clip has the jitters. That’s a strange one! Good luck,
jigs