Roadkill
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Brian,
Can’t point you to the setting in RecordNow, but you could try changing the file system from ISO to UDF or ISO/UDF.
Btw: A single layer DVD can’t hold much more than 4GB. The Giga in “4.7GB” is decimal based (1,000,000,000 bytes), whereas the Gigabyte on a computer is binary based (1,073,741,824 bytes). This makes that a 4.7GB DVD has a storage capacity of about 4.37GB.
To avoid possible problems later, I would suggest to limit the size of a single file on a DVD to 4GB or less.
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Bob,
I don’t know why this is happening, but if at all possible try to avoid using MPEG-1 Layer II audio as source. It is better to import an uncompressed PCM, 48KHz, 16 bit audio file and let Encore convert it to Dolby Digital (AC3) at 192 or 224Kb/s.
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More tutorials:
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[Bryan Carvajal] “do you recommend anything besides the Epson R200 or higher series?”
The Canon Pixma iP4000, which I am quite happy with so far. If you are in the US this printer probably won’t be CD/DVD capable though – for reasons best known to Canon the US version of the iP4000 doesn’t print on discs.
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The most important reason not to use adhesive labels is the different thermal expansion coefficients of label and disc. A DVD can heat up quite a bit during playback, and because of the difference in expansion, the disc will get slightly warped. As the reading laser focusses with a very narrow depth of field, even a very tiny uneveness will cause a sharp increase in read errors.
I have seen the result of tests done by AudioDev where the number of (PI) errors increased by factors of 100 and more after a label was applied. The label that did the least harm was a thin mylar type label, but even that made the DVD less readable. If a DVD still plays with a label, it just means that the set top player can handle the high error rate and not that using labels does no harm.
Another possible and apparently real problem with labels is that because the glue may get squishy when it is sufficiently heated (and some players can run quite hot), the label may become unstuck in the player (your client’s very expensive player of course) and shreds of sticky paper get wedged in its mechanism.
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Bryan,
AFAIK it isn’t possible to export or transfer subtitles typed directly in Encore. This is one of the reasons why using a subtitle script instead is a preferable method.
As for the size of your project: What is the total duration of all video you want to put on the DVD?
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Here are some logos which can be used without violating the DVD FLLC copyright: artofdvd.com: free DVD logos.