[Warren R sampson]

Thanks much for the tip Danny. I will try it out.

Appreciate the help!

Warren

[Warren R sampson]

Thanks for the tip. I will work it through in Compressor.

[Warren R sampson]

I have a bunch of .movs of varying lengths that my boss wants on YouTube.

A related question is how to take the most advantage of the YouTube 1 gig size by making a file that is very nearly or exactly 1 gig. If I upload something that is a lot less than 1 Gig, folks will complain that it doesn’t look good enough. If it is exactly 1 Gig, I can say…YouTube did it!

In Squeeze, I have tried several MPEG 4 encodes by checking the “Constrain File Size To” box and entered 1,000,000 KBytes. The resulting encodes are all much smaller than 1 g.

Perhaps Squeeze isn’t the place to set the target. Perhaps I need to do it in FCP.

[Warren R sampson]

Fair question, Daniel.

I have a contact at a kids software development company, so I will see what they say.

Part of my post was hoping that someone would have been involved in a recent project to be able to give me some ideas to add to the info from developer.

Thanks for your input.

[Warren R sampson]

Thanks for the suggestion. I might have to stick to Mac apps for this project since we have some decicated Mac heads in the loop.

But I will keep this one in mind for future project.

Warren

[Warren R sampson]

Episode looks like a tweakers delight – lot’s of settings!

Sadly, it doesn’t support cue points yet. Looks like I will stick with Squeeze for awhile yet.

[Warren R sampson]

Thanks for the tip Danny! I will try the demo of Episode.

Warren

[Warren R sampson]

Thanks for the tip George. I was almost certain that I had never played this DVD in this player before, but it is possible that an earlier version was played. It is the most logical answer. First play works on every other player I have tried, so I must have played an earlier version and it just slipped my mind.

Thanks again for all your help.

Warren

[Warren R sampson]

I am using DVD Labs General Disc record 3.1. It has been very reliable and useful for quick burned copies as well as for my local replicator (both pressed and burned).

I don’t usually burn an ISO image to test. I compile to VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, then open a VTS stream directly from Windows Media player. It’s a fast way to get a really quick look at the compiled version. When you open a VTS directly, obviously the playback starts in the middle of a movie not at the first play menu.

THAT was what was weird about the player today. It was the first time I had seen a set top DVD player do what Windows media player does: it started playing a TS.

Maybe I am making a basic mistake by not burning from an .img. It wouldn’t be the first time I had done something dumb!

[Warren R sampson]

Thanks for the reply, George. Glad to hear from a fellow DVD Lab user! I have been using it for several years, but still find great things to do with it.

My method on all previous projects has been to right click on my Main Menu (the one I want to play first) and set it as First Play. Checking in the Connections panel, the green First Play circle is indeed connected to my Main Menu along with the blue Title Button.

Today I played one of my titles at a friends house. She owns a very basic Walmart DVD player. The first thing that played was the first movie in my Movies list. I then navigated to the Main Menu, ejected the disc and re-inserted. The First Play went to the proper Menu as I had intended.

But a little alarm went off in my head. I remembered that when I open my VTS in Windows Media player, it played the movie instead of the menu.

I started to wonder if it was something deeper in the way that some DVD players decide to play assets on discs. I wondered if there was a Pre-Command that I should insert to make sure that all players went to the menu instead of the first movie. Sorry for the long reply!