How to burn 2 movie in one disc

Question

hi guys,
newbie here..need help...i got 2 clips that gotta burn in one disc..but my client doenst wan a menus..they wan the disc keep looping between this 2 file....somemore its 16:9..if my ori visual is 720*576, can i burn in 16:9 letterbox so that widescreen on normal tv but fullscreen on lcdtv? how will the visual will be? pixelize?...however, wat more confuse me is the steps to to import int he file n burn it..this is my very first time to use dvd studio pro 4..plz help ....
Message was edited by: ycngjack1

Answer 1

Hi ycngjack1:
You're fine putting just video content on your DVD. There's no rule that says you have to have a menu.
You'll want to set the "First Play" option in DVDSP to your Track that contains your video. By default, a DVDSP project starts with one Menu and one Track with "First Play" set to the menu.
720x576 is the correct frame size for a PAL MPEG2 stream, whether it's full frame material (4x3) or widescreen material (16x9). You need to be sure to set the "Display Mode" setting for the Track correctly in DVDSP in the Inspector palette. Also, this setting must correspond with your Video Stream for correct results. In other words, you place full frame clips into a full frame Track and widescreen clips into a widescreen Track. If you need to mix the two, you have to address this prior to encoding or importing the clips back in your editing applications (Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, After Effects, etc.) and conform your footage to either full frame or widescreen.
Getting back to your question, "can i burn in 16:9 letterbox so that widescreen on normal tv but fullscreen on lcdtv?" It sounds like you are talking about creating a "hard matte", meaning that your 16x9 image is scaled proportionally to fit within a 4x3 image, leaving black bars at the top and bottom (the letterbox). This will result in a letterbox picture on a 4x3 TV and a pillarbox picture (black on the sides) on a 16x9 LCD TV that's also letterbox inside of that.
Without actually seeing your source footage, it's hard to tell you exactly what to do.
For the results that I think you are looking for, you'll want your 16x9 picture to be squeezed into 720x576 (everything should look thin and distorted without black bars at the top and bottom),
This might also help:
a. Place your clips into a Track and set the Display Mode to 4:3 (the first setting of four, the others being 16:9 Pan-Scan, 16:9 Letterbox, and 16:9 Pan-Scan & Letterbox).
b. Set the Track to be the "First Play".
c. Click the "Simulate" button.
d. While the Simulator is running, change the Display Mode between the three options: 4:3 Pan-Scan, 4:3 letterbox, and 16x9.
e. Quit the Simulator and change the Track Display Mode to the next setting, 16:9 Pan-Scan.
f. Run the Simulator again and change the Display Mode between the three options.
g. Repeat this until you've done all four of the Track Display Mode Settings.
This should help you reverse engineer your source footage.
Good luck!
-Warren