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VOB contains video (MPEG-1/2), audio (PCM, Dolby, DTS) and subtitles (Background information, overlay is not included in the same VOB, it belong to vts menu VOB).
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For speed question, you shouldn’t exceed 8x although Taiyo Yuden have been strongly tested for higher speed.
As eric mentioned, you could use DVD-Lab Pro. Its well designed and offers a lot of pro features and functions that others like DVDSP and Encore don’t, and its just 199$. DVDit 6 Pro is great on PC, with little less features. These softwares are affordable, if you want more, there is expensive Sonic Scenarist or you could buy a used Sonic Fusion system (Mac OS9). I use Fusion and it works really great, one feature I love is the Verify tool that tells you if something does not meet the DVD specifications in your project.
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Unfortunetly, no. Not with standard DVD. HD DVD and Blu-ray have much stronger copy protection.
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There’s alot of burning software. I use Roxio EMC and never had problems. You could just make a .ISO of your DVD so you’ll be sure you have AUDIO_TS, then burn it with Disc Copier. Nero Burning ROM is great too. For my professionnals needs, I use Gear Software which is very strong.
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not sure but look for MpegStreamClip on Apple.com
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ProCoder is pretty good, there’s also Cinemacraft.
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At this time, you can’t compare software to hardware compression for quality issue. Hardware compression surely gives the best results, especially at low bitrates, as eric mentionned. And the Optibase card (SDI and DE) really worth the money (Compared to Sonic SD-Series). For 5.1 audio, as drumrob mentionned, digital files are often use (That’s what we always use at our studio), so they can be easily import in the dolby encoder (Software I mean, I don’t think you can afford a Dolby hardware encoder considering your budget).
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Add some black frames again after fade out. It happened to me sometimes on my export (FCP) when the Out point was to tight on the fade.
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Yes, I will probably begin with Scenarist Studio 1000 workstation. But I want to make tests with SD-1000 and Optibase.
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Scenarist is about 22K$ for the basic version with the encoder card (SD-1000 I think), so…
DVD-lab Pro, for 199$, is a very good choice, for the price, to get most of DVD specs enabled.