DVD Studio Pro with Blu-Ray

I cant believe that this subject has not been tackled yet but I could not find the correct thread to read comments from the forum.
My question is: Is there a chance in the near future that Apple will finally decide to let DVDSP users to burn their outputs into a Blu-Ray ?
Whay this is not yet possible ?
I bought The latest version of Fincal Cut Studio 2 with the hope that DVD SP latest update would give that possibility, but I heard that it is not the case.

Success means different things to different people.
Some say Blu-ray is a success, some say it was a success.
The companies that design and manufacture Blu-ray; Samsung, Sony and Apple are saying that Blu-ray is an expensive, short term system for recordable video authoring and will be replaced by newer technology in two to five years.
Consumers and the media appear to say, were not buying something expensive to replace something that works just fine.

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DVD Studio Pro does BLU RAY? How?

so... i'm using Final Cut Studio 2.
I have an edited footage in FCPRO in this format: XDCAM EX 1080p30
What are the settings in Compressor that i have to use to export my HD project
to make a BLU RAY disc in DVD Studio Pro?
If you don't want to answer me... please give a link to a tutorial or something on this matter...
thanks people!

You can make SDs from HD footage, you can burn HD DVD (sort of) to play on the now defunct HD DVD Player and you can also make hobbled blu-ray discs with the new Final Cut Studio 3. Hobbled meaning not full blown authoring of all the bells & whistles of blu-ray, but basic menu and video stream.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/whats-new.html (The Final Cut Studio 3 upgrade is $299 in the U.S.)
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs/ (blu-ray burner needed if you want to burn blu-ray)
Toast also offers limited blu-ray authoring and so does Adobe Encore (a bit more)

I am making multiple DVD's of roughly 50 hours of footage on DVD Studio pro with 4 separate menus for 4 different 'parts' or series if you will. 50 hours - 20 episodes - 4 parts of 5 episodes each. What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to

I am making multiple DVD's of roughly 50 hours of footage on DVD Studio pro with 4 separate menus for 4 different 'parts' or series if you will. 50 hours - 20 episodes - 4 parts of 5 episodes each. What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to separate DVD's, what is the process, what size DVD RW should I buy, what bitrate should I use, and what quality I should expect for the burn. Any advice or insight is welcome.

>>What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to separate DVD's<<
20 episodes totaling 50 hours equals about 2.5 hours per episode assuming all episodes have the same duration. Fitting 2.5 hours onto one single layer DVD would require a low bit rate which means quality wouldn't be anywhere near best, but that's a judgement call you'll have to make based on several factors. For example; if there is not much motion in the video (talking heads, etc), you can get by with a lower bit rate and may not notice any quality difference.
>>what is the process>>
The process is essentially the same as it is when authoring a regular DVD with 2 hours or less of content. However, with as many discs as you'd need to complete this "set," you'll need to create a separate DVD Studio Project for each disc. Basically, you'd use one of Compressor's DVD Presets (or customize a preset) to create an MPEG--2 video file (.m2v) and a Dolby Digital audio file (.AC3). Import both of those assets into your DVD Studio Pro project for authoring and burning.
If you want to keep one episode per disc, DVD Studio Pro does have a 150 minute preset or you could use dual-layer discs with a higher bit rate for better quality. Again; your call.
>>what size DVD RW should I buy<<
Size? 12cm. Capacity? Single layer, single sided DVD discs (DVD-5) have a rated capacity of 4.7Gb (4.37Gb actual), including menus. If you use single layer discs and want to keep the quality reasonably good, you'd need at least 50 discs to complete this "set" with each disc holding roughly 2 hours of footage if you keep the menu on each disc simple. Or, you could use dual-layer discs (DVD-9) which have a capacity of about 7.95Gb - almost doubling the recordable capacity. There are also dual-sided, dual-layer discs available (DVD-18) but they are relatively expensive and have to be manually turned over to continue playback ... but they do have roughly 15.9Gb capacity.
>>what bitrate should I use, and what quality I should expect for the burn<<
Exactly; the quality is dependent on the bit rate chosen, as well as the quality of the compression. Using compression markers where needed can greatly increase the quality of playback but will most likely increase the file size of the compressed video. For the best quality, keeping the bit rate as high as possible allowed under the DVD specification will yield the best quality but some DVD players may choke if the bit rate is too high. For best quality I typically aim for a bit rate around 7.6 to 8.0Mbps but that will only allow about one hour of footage.
Naturally, if you decrease the bit rate, you can fit more footage onto the disc but quality will be sacraficed.   Here's a chart approximating DVD bit rates and durations for single layer discs (does not include space for menus):
3.5Mbps - 120 minutes
5.0Mbps -   95 minutes
6.0Mbps -   82 minutes
7.6Mbps -   65 minutes
8.0Mbps -   60 minutes
-DH

How to export MPEG2 from DVD Studio Pro with subtitles?

Does anyone know how to export MPEG2 from DVD Studio Pro with subtitles?

You cant do that...
We might be able to help you more if you are trying to do something specific,
-Jake

Having a problem with audio in DVD Studio Pro with the finished copy

I am making a DVD of a clip I had transferred from a mini DV. All the audio was present when I transferred it. I had then turned it into an MPEG movie format (.mpg). When I play that clip there is audio. Then I compressed the file on Compressor. I selected the file format by choosing Apple > DVD > DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes > MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass (the clip was about an hour and 20min long) and compressed the clip. I then opened DVD studio pro, made a menu, and then added this new file (MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass). I burned the DVD and put it into my DVD player. The picture was great and everything worked fine except there was no audio. How do I get audio into this DVD? I have tried compressing my .mpg file into the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 option that is under DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes, but when I try importing that into DVD studio pro it a message pops up saying "Incompatible format." It might also help mentioning that when I saw the file size on the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 after compressing it, it said Zero kb. How would I get audio onto this DVD? I would really appreciate your help, I tried to be as detailed as I could. This DVD is for a family member and is urgent, so anyone who can help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you so much.
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If you don't want to go back and recapture the tape you need to understand that MPG files need to be "DeMuxed" to extract the audio. My recommendation would be to use the free MPEG Streamclip and then select your MPG to be Demuxed into an AIFF file. That AIFF file will then need to be converted to an AC3 file, similar to what you did with the video.

HIDE DVD Studio Pro with Leopard (COMMAND H)

Greetings all. Searched and can't find this in the forum.
Has anyone noticed that trying to "HIDE DVD STUDIO PRO" using Leopard 10.5.4 and DVD SP 4.2.1 seems to be impossible!
I never saw this behavior using Tiger and we've been on Leopard for a long time now but I thought I'd post this.
I know I can Command-TAB to switch apps but not being able to send it to the dock is a real nuisance!
Anyone else seen this? Perhaps the boys and girls at Apple can add this to their bug fix requests?
Regards,

I've had the same thing happening with both After Effects and DVDSP for a while now. It seems to happen after using the app. for a while. A restart of the app. will often solve the problem - not that I bother to do that. Both apps. seem to diff. from the standard Apple app. "skin" (if one can call it that) and maybe there are issues in this regard. Been using 10.5.2 since it came out and recently upgraded to 10.5.4 (installed Pro Tools, and it was required). Same thing.
I mostly use Option-clicking to hide apps, and it seem to work more often than Command-H (AE is Option-Command-H).

DVD STUDIO PRO with DRU710 A

My Sony Dru 710 A (DVD Drive) doest no appear in DVD Studio Pro...when I click Burn the program show "Format finished"'.
In the Burn and format screen my DVD burner doest appear.
Is the DRU710A (Sony) compatible with DVD Studio Pro 4.03?
If is not, wich those are?

Not certain, but you might want to try this:
http://www.patchburn.de/
and see if it is recognized.
best wishes
David
go zags

Create DVD with DVD Studio Pro with Flash Content

I'd like to create a DVD that will run like usual on a DVD player and TV, but that could contain flash files that would run on a computer. Is there a way to do this?

Another app is Sonic eDVD if you want to be able to launch files from the interface. Both have a lot of cons though... You can just add ROM data for the user to browse if you want to too.
You can autorun the flash content if you want, so the user see's it on the PC and not the DVD-Video when the disc is put it,
-Jake

HELP how do I compress my DV Video into DVD Studio Pro??

Thank you in advance for taking your time out to even read this!
I have a 40 minute 4:3 DV format video in final cut pro and I need to fit it on a DVD (4.7 gig) using DVD studio Pro. I have the whole FInal Cut Pro package (compressor, live type, etc...) so how would I compress the video and then put it in DVD studio pro, with the highest video quality possible?
Again thanks to all you people taking time out to just help!!!! Darin.

Take a look at these liks also
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/qc.php (Compressor 2 but concepts apply)
http://dvdstepbystep.com/fasttrackover.php (General workflow, but you can send from Final Cut without rendering exporting, more for settings)

Multitrack to DVD Studio Pro...

I have a movie soundtrack in FCP6 with 13 tracks. I'm trying to send my movie soundtrack to DVD Studio Pro with a decent stereo mix now. I've tried to use Compressor already and converted it to a stereo AC-3 file. It does not sound very good although, there are a lot of volume level ups and downs.
The tracks are already pre-mixed in the FCP sound timeline. How should I go about mixing these 13 tracks into a final stereo mix that sounds like the mix in FCP right now? Should I export to Soundtrack Pro and turn it into a AIFF stereo file, then export to DVD Pro? What is the best method to make a digital stereo mix I can then send to DVD Studio to join up with my video footage?
Any audio help would be most appreciated.
Rory

Import your 6 discrete tracks onto 6 audio tracks in STP.
Select the contextual menu for each panner and choose "Use Surround Panner"
Double click the panner for the C channel and move the selection entirely to the C channel like so
!http://www.rdiv.com/screenshots/STP_51pannerC.jpg!
Likewise do the same for the Left, Right, LeftSurround, and RightSurround - assigning each to the proper corresponding position in the Surround panner for that channel.
Now take the LFE channel and adjust the LFE Balance to 100% like so
!http://www.rdiv.com/screenshots/STP_51pannerLFE.jpg!
All audio channels should be assigned to Submix 1. Submix 1's output should be set to Surround 1-6. Leave all the faders at 0.
!http://www.rdiv.com/screenshots/STP_surroundMix.jpg!
Now you should be able to export to AC3.
!http://rdiv.com/screenshots/STP_exportAC3.jpg!
hth,
jim

Idvd & dvd studio pro disc not playing properly in other players

Hi
I have edited a program for the past 3 DAYS, and i have burned the program using IDVD, DVD studio pro, and Toast Titanium.
It plays ok on my G5 and my laptop G4.
And every lousy time i give the disc to the client something different goes wrong.
If it's not a lockup,it's artifacts, and programs jumping forward and backwards between scenes, by itself.
I'm using Memorex and Philips DVD discs.
My Toshiba DVD appliance deck burns the program beautifully and no hiccups.
But the customer wants the lovely menus that apple has designed
Personally i am sick and tired of apple and all the "perfect world marketing" , i had yet to burn a DVD disc with idvd or dvd studio pro with any confidence.
Apple should get into the " Bovine scatology " business, at least when that gets spread something grows despite the smell.
Anyway, i don't know if anyone can help me or not .
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Vic.

While I can understand your frustration, I believe the problem here is in the encoding settings. iDVD doesn't give you much control over specific encoding settings, whereas encoding through Compressor will.
Some specific things are missing from your post. What is your workflow? How are you exporting your timeline? What format is your project (DV, HDV, DVCPRO, PAL, NTSC)? When you built your DVD in Studio Pro, what encoding settings did you use? Do you know where the encoding settings are? What are the settings for your DVD project (SD or HD)?
You would do yourself and your client good to take some time to read over proper DVD mastering workflows. It's really quite painless once you understand how things work. Blaming Apple for this is not a very helpful way to solve your problem.
The tutorial DVDs that came packaged with your install discs will also help. Just look at the lessons for DVD Studio Pro.
Encoding settings for SD DVDs.

Compression quality: iDVD vs DVD Studio Pro vs others?

I am merrily editing along in FCE, and looking to eventually compress and burn onto DVD. Since I can use all the quality I can get, and don't have spare money (so what else is new?), I am wondering about the differences in compressing software. Is there a visible difference in the final product using DVD Studio Pro vs iDVD? Is there something else out there that is better than iDVD but doesn't cost as much as DVDSP? Any opinions or experience welcomed!
Thank you!

If your project is under an hour, iDVD will give you very satisfactory results (use the Best Performance settings).
You can create an up to 2 hour movie with iDVD but personally (with Best Quality), I think the quality begins to slide off a bit over an hour
DVD Studio Pro, with Compressor, gives you many more compression options. Compressor has lots more compression pre-sets and you can go in and tweak bit rates, single or double passes, etc. You can do that inside DVD Studio Pro as well. Overall, Studio Pro just gives you a lot more options and control.
Roxio Toast is a relatively cheap (around 80 bucks Cdn) piece of software that will compress your FC movies. You are way limited in terms of things like menus and chapters but compression wise it does a fairly nice job ... again, you don't have the versatility of iDVD. With Popcorn, it will allow you to cram a big movie onto a single layer DVD but the quality begins to hurt
Personally, no matter what you use, two hours is the reasonable quality limit for a single layer DVD

DVD Studio Pro Slideshow help.

I'm attempting to make a slideshow and I'm wondering if it's possible to import a slideshow created in iMovie as 1 jpeg?
For example, I want to do a slideshow in DVD Studio Pro with each slide having its own audio. However, I want multiple slides to play over just one audio track. Let's say I have a song by Mariah Carey and want to show different details about the song and album while the song is playing.
I hope I explained it so anyone can understand.

If you want one audio file per slide you can do that in DVD SP. If you want multiple slides for one audio file then you need to create a video, either in iMovie or FCP.
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First few video frames 'stuttering' and then DVD Studio Pro hangs

Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist me with this problem...
I've been using Final Cut Studio for some time, with no issues with DVD Studio Pro. Now, whenever I import video assets into DVD Studio Pro, and then run simulate to see how the video will look, the first few frames of the video appear to 'stutter' and then jam on the screen; the audio keeps running fine.
Eventually DVD Studio Pro hangs-up and I have to use Force Quit to get out. If I don't simulate but just go-ahead with burning a DVD, the program still hangs.
When I view the same video in Quicktime, it's fine so it does not appear to be the video file...
Has something gone wrong with DVD Studio Pro, with it's preferences or something else? Any advice on what I should do? I can no longer burn DVDs because of this!
Thanks.
PowerMac G5 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 4.5 GB RAM

That's the problem, I can't get to the stage of actually building a DVD. I've attached assets, go to burn, and then the program hangs. If I view the video in simulate, it see that the few few frames are not advancing, just sort of hanging there, repeating pver and over, then it hangs. Viewing the video in QT it seems fine.
Help! Anyone seen this problem? What should I do, I have to burn a DVD for Monday! Thanks.

How do I create Blu Ray Disc with DVD Studio Pro ?

Folks, I think that I'm in trouble... I created 3 HD projects with DSP (i do not have the tapes and fcp project anymore, neither the HDV 1080i mov file) and I need to be burned it with a Blu-Ray Media, and play it with a BR Player... So far I made the following steps:
1-) In FCP, I exported some Quicktime Movies with HDV 1080i60 codec (movie with chapters, menu bg movie, extras).
2-) In Compressor, I used the preset HD MPEG-2 19,0 MBPS for videos, and Dolby digital professional 2.0 for audios.
3-) In DSP I created a HD DVD Project (DISC window, GENERAL tab, DVD STANDARD = HD DVD; DISC WINDOW, DISC/VOLUME tab, DISC MEDIA = BLUE LASER, LAYER OPTION = OTP) with movies, extras, menus...
4-) In ADVANCE BURN (under FILE MENU) I chose BUILD.
5-) Now I got a HVDVD_TS folder, with my movie compilation...
NOW, my doubt is... The folder HVDVD_TS can be burned on a BR Media and be played on a BR Player ?
If not, what can I do with my HVDVD_TS folders to be compatible with Blu Ray ?
thanks a lot for any help.
Best Regards
Marcelo

That can't be done. Get the tapes back and start over. Get the new Toast in the tutorial I posted to make a Blu ray disc.
You could try this tool to demux the streams, transcode to QT then re-encode for Blu Ray but I wouldn't go that direction unless you know what your doing. You would also be encoding twice which is not good.
Get the original source back and go the toast route from the start.
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