Re-Author DVD

Hi, I wonder if I have dvd made by a friend (with video taken from our camera in a trip to asia) and I dont have the tape but I want to reauthor to add some menus and stuff, how do I extract all the content from dvd and then reauthor in iDVD? thank you

The DV file is muxed, i.e. includes both video and sound. If you need to seperate the two, there is a command under 'advanced' in iMovie that enables you to extract the audio.
What this does in practise is, well, extract the audio from the clips you selected, and put the audio in a seperate timeline under the video timeline. At the same time, it mutes the audio in the video clip.

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Apple discontinued DVD Studio Pro three/four years ago. You can probably find copies from private sellers, but whether it will work without problems on OS X 10.9 I don't know. I don't know of any "professional" alternative to DVDSP for Mac, but someone else here may be able to offer suggestions.
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http://alternativeto.net/software/idvd/?platform=mac
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Need to author DVD from FCP X

I converted to FCP X and need to author DVDs from the footage I shot. Since I still have DVD Studio Pro I imported the footage, authored the DVD and burned it. It won't play on my DVD player, Blu Ray player or even my Mac. In the build I get notes that say:
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FYI, DVD is always SD, irrespective of whether the authoring program is DVD Studio Pro, or something else. The only HD that DVD SP ever supported was the long-obsolete HD DVD. Nor has Apple ever integrated Blu Ray devices into their hardware.
There is a lower quality version of Blu Ray that is available in FCP and which can be burned to a normal DVD-R disk. You start with a Bllu Ray setting and select a DVD drive for the Output Device. The limitations are that it's half the bit rate and you're limited to about 30 minutes. But it is HD resolution. Give a try if you're interested.
Russ

I am using Toast 11 to burn dvd's. With FCP10.1.3 I could go into the FCP shared folder grab the encoded .m2v file and drag it into Toast 11 and author dvd and burn. How can you do this with FCP 10.1.4?

I am using Toast 11 to burn dvd's. With FCP10.1.3 I used to go into the FCP shared folder grab the encoded .m2v file and drag it into Toast 11 and author dvd and burn. How can you do this with FCP 10.1.4?

BenB it creates a disc image only and it's not in .m2v. I think it saved it as an Apple Pro Res 422 format instead. The disc image file format will not allow
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Image Brightness Changes When Authoring DVDs

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To encode footage I export 720 24p footage from FCP as a Quicktime .mov using Microcosm then encode in Compressor using the standard Best Quality, 16:9, SD setting. The Quicktime .mov and the encoded .m2v file plays with the same image brightness and contrast as does the original footage in the FCP timeline, but once I author it in Studio Pro it consistenly looks lighter and consequently washed out when played back on the same monitor from the DVD. It also ends up looking lighter when played on a TV than programs from a typical rental DVD movie.
I set up my 23" Cine display carefully with with Apple's advanced profiling software, and images and color bars match footage displayed on my Sony PVM-14M that has been set up with color bars through a decklink card.
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I have read on various forums that people are getting better encodes from HD footage by exporting to a Quicktime file before encoding. Several people have complained about the results exporting directly to Compressor. I take it you haven't found this to be a problem?
Drew

Burning copies of authored DVD

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I recently finished authoring a DVD and put a copy of the video and audio TS in a folder that I pulled from the DVD.
I would like to burn copies of the DVD from this folder. When I do however the DVD doens't perform from its authorship. Can anyone help?
Thanx,
John

Place the DVD in the drive
Put DVD in the drive
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IDVD authored DVDs that won't play in domestic players

For what it's worth with all the traffic here about discs not playing, here's my experience. Hope it helps. Although the following is a wee bit ranty, apologies.
Having successfully authored many DVDs in Panther with iDVD 2, since completely upgrading (not migrating) to a new machine with freshly installed Tiger and iDVD 5.0.1 I cannot successfully burn DVDs from either iDVD or iDVD .imgs from Disc Utility that will play in anything but my trusty 3 year-old Pioneer 355 or Apple DVD player. This is using the same media (Verbatim) as I have always used.
DVD players take a while to read the disc, then show the main menu (even if the DVD is autoplay). On selecting an asset to play, the player freezes. In fact one Panasonic player I have crashes. I have to power it down and up to get the disc out.
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Hi, I am trying to author a DVD using Encore but whenever I go to Build DVD > Disc > Build and then attempt to actually build the disc, the program has trouble importing one of my video files. All of the settings are default but when I press "Build" it runs through as if it were encoding/transcoding the disc but then it always fails. It happens with one particular file (an avi file) that is part of my dvd. Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to solve the problem (or suggestions as to what the problem could be)?
I have gotten an error message once, but I'm not really sure how it relates.
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What type of detailed information?
I'm unsure of what exactly to tell you, but if you could be a little more specific I will pass on as much as possible.
It is an avi file about 1.1 GB in size and running for 16 minutes, I made it using footage compiled from DV Tapes that I then edited and created as an avi file using Premiere Pro.
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If there are any ways in which I can be more specific to better help you to help me, please let me know.
Thanks

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Please recommend workflow to re-author DVD at lowere quality setting.

I have to re-author a DVD. Currently its written at 60 minute quality but I'd like it at 120 min. quality to squeeze more content on. I have FCS2 and Mpeg streamclip available. Can someone recommend the simplest way to do it?
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So if I fully understand what you want to achieve you want to take the existing "footage" (that you only have as MPEG streams/AC3) and then add some more content.
What I would do is use something like MPEG Streamclip to demux the VOBs of your existing project so you get back separate m2v and AC3 files.
Then create your new Stdio Pro project. Import this demux stream in and the new streams you want to add and create your new project. Build that project to your hard drive so you end up with a VIDEO_TS folder and use DVD2OneX (which I think is a paid for software) to "squeeze" that existing VIDEO_TS to a new smaller VIDEO_TS which will fit on to the DVD-R that you want to fit it on to.
Use Toast to burn the subsequent squeezed project.
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Authored a number of DVDs using Encore CS6. Some play fine and some show incorrect audio track language info when played back on a DVD player even though they are programmed correctly and the same as the ones playing correctly. Has anyone else encountered this? If so, what was the fix?

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Can you please add some detail to "incorrect audio track language info when played back on a DVD player even though they are programmed correctly" - what exactly is the error you get - do you get any audio playback?
And how are the discs "programmed" - do you have multiple audio tracks, for example English and Spanish?
Please let us know the normal workflow you use to create a DVD. Does it use Dynamic Link from Premiere to Encore, do you encode assets first, how do you make DVDs? Video and audio source formats?
Screen grabs can be very helpful to show settings used at various stages.
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I just made this dvd with Studio Pro 3.0.2, burned it to a DVD-R and DVD Player won't play it and it used to play others I've authored, but now it won't..can't copy it either with Toast..it just opens up the tray again..no error code or anything. Anyone know what's up??
I think I'm doing everything just as I used to..
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When you say DVD Player (standalone) or do you mean Apple DVD Player? Could be many things from a bad burn to the drive you are trying it in is going bad/dirty. When you are copying it with Toast why are you trying to copy it, why not just burn another copy off the build?
Anymore details on the process, what brand of media, how you burned it could point to where the issue is.

I need to author DVD for both ntsc, pal,& different regions.Need some help

Hey guys
I have a school project in relation with a company. We have to create many DVDs for there training courses. They train dogs and they need us to edit the video footage and author the dvds READY FOR SALE.
First off. I don't know at this moment but I believe that these dvds might need to be in both pal and ntsc format, maybe also in different regions. Therefore my first question is
1. What format should I convert the video footage to, before I start my video editing, if I want to author my final edit to dvd?
--> Would it be mpeg2 min 6 mbps max 8 mbps because as I know that is the format for dvd. Or do you leave it as the native camera format eg DV.
2. What frame size should I convert that original video footage to aswell?
3. What things do I need to know regarding pal and ntsc formats. How do I prepare a dvd ready for both formats? What format do I edit in
4. What do I need to know regarding doifferent regions, and how do I set up my dvd for different regions?
5. Is there anything else I need to know before I start editing so I do get into any trouble later on?

dang itpowda, you killing me.. haha jk!
anyway, ok i see where you can be confused. hopefully this can answer yoru questions.
ok in the NTSC world, if you are creating a graphic file for exampe for TV, then you would create the file with a square pixel (PAR = 1.0 in this case) and your frame size will be 720x540 only because if you create it using the rectagular NTSC pixel, your image will look sueezed and you would have to resize the graphic anyway for TV because remember, you would be creating it on a computer monitor that has a PAR of 1.0 natively, although your DAR is the same, the PAR is not. now, when you have video in D1 NTSC, you would have a rectangular pixel (PAR = 0.9 in this case) and a frame size of 720x486.
ok, now PAL. once again, if we are creating a CG file for video on a computer, we can creat it using a square pixel and then resize it for PAL TV and the PAR in this case would be 720x768. the reason for this is because in PAL, the PAR is 1.0667, NOT .09 as in NTSC. both standards share the same rectangular pixel.
now for the DAR. lets assume we are talking about a full frame TV set for a minute. we know that both PAL and NTSC standards, although with different PAR (0.9 vs. 1.0667) have the same DAR (in this case 1.33:1 in decimal form which you obtain from dividing the ratio (whole number) first number by the second). you have to remember we get the DAR of 4:3 assuming that it is a FF picture because the image on the screen takes up 4 units wide to 3 units high. in PAL or NTSC this is true, regardless of PAR. the differences in PAL and NTSC come from the refresh rate, PAR, frame rate and color space to name some and keep it simplistic.
i hope that is somewhat clear. now, to answer your questions:
First thing. If PAL and NTSC both had a PAR of 1:1, they would both have a DAR of 720*540, true?
nope, if you have or want a PAR of 1:1 (to create CG files), then NTSC would be 720x540 and PAL would be 720x768.
the rest of your questions are pretty much false :P
now, you might be wondering, HOW N THE HECK DID HE GET THOSE NUMBERS!
ok, lets say you need to create a CG file on a computer, but want to keep the PAR right (remember, if you create said file with a frame size of 720x576 and a DAR of 1:1, your image will be squeezed a bit) you have to take into account a specific formula in video needed to do such and many more conversions!
let me show you how i obtained 720x768 for a PAR of 1:1...
we know we want to keep the width the same, since we are creating a image file for the PAL video.
lets get some numbers straight first:
width = 576
DAR = 4:3 (or 1.333 in decimal form)
so it would be 576 * 1.333 = 767.808 OR as a whole number 768.
how did i get the above formula:
i know the DAR of my input (from 4:3 video), i know the PAR of my ouput (from a 1:1 CG file) and i have my height from video (576). so the unknown variable in this case is the width.
so it would look something like this:
width = 576 * (4/3) / (1/1)
ok, we know that we want to convert the ratio of 4:3 and 1:1 into decimals (makes it easier to work with mathmatically).
when we do this, we get:
w = 576 * 1.333 / 1
we know that when you divide a number by one, you get the same value back, so for simplicity sake, lets take the sole 1 out, since it doesnt matter because 1.333 wont change in value:
w = 576 * 1.333 = 676.808 or when you round up to the nearest whole number, you get w = 678!
as long as you have the 3 of the 4 possible variables for the above formual, you can mathmatically get the variable you need.
i am exhausted, i need a beer!
Mikey M.

Real World Experience - TIPS - Pal to NTSC and Authoring DVDS on both

I have just completed a DVD project.
It was shot and edited in Pal and then authored to both Pal and NTSC DVDS ( Pal for Europe - NTSC for Japan and USA)
Standards Conversion:
I used both compressor and graham Nattress' excellent G (for Graham?) Standards converter.
Compressor was a fast work around for a quick pal to ntsc conversion at ok quality. Since my footage is very demanding (lots of handheld heli shots, water housing footage)i imagine it was giving the converters a real work out).
The Nattress G converter was much slower but the results were as close to perfection as i would imagine a software solution can get. Obviously the extra render time was working extra hard to get the conversion looking good.
For anyone going down this path - For your master you just have to use the natress converter- thanks Graham - best $100 i have spent this year.
MPG2 encoding
i did this using compressor and it worked well.
Here is the rub - i THOUGHT compressor was not doing my MPG 2 conversion at acceptable quality - it was actually the lack of quality out of compressors fast and easy solution for pal - ntsc that was giving me banding on moving objects and color issues.
I suspect this may be where some people think they are coming unstuck with compressor. (go back and check you ntsc conversion relative to your original pal quality)
I hope this saves anyone else in my situation some time.
In summary - when working in PAL (ie you are shooting and editing in Europe or Australia)Your work flow should be - shoot and edit in Pal ,convert with Natress, encode with compressor (compressor 2.1 - i use 7.7 mbs max, 6.0 mbs av - 2 pass variable - use ac3 for audio) - which has actually been working well for me (despite various threads about issues with compressor)
Hope this come up nicely for anyone doing a search. Thank you to everyone who has helped me on the way and good night!

Rory85 wrote:
Ok cool, thanks Stan.
Re-doing the Encore stuff, as much as that would/will suck, it's not my worst fear.. the thing that scares me the most is the thought of re-doing all of the Premiere work again.. If an NTSC Encore project can convert a PAL Premiere working file to a NTSC DVD, I can live with re-working the Encore stuff.. And yea, Dynamic link takes care of all of the chapter markers, so that wouldn't be a big issue - it'd just be a matter of re-building the menus..
But yea, if anyone has a definite yes or no answer on whether or not Encore can turn a PAL Premiere project into a NTSC DVD, I'd love to know.. The person I'm doing the work for doesn't want to spend thousands of dollars getting PAL dvds printed etc unless we absolutely know it's going to be a complete re-start to get it to NTSC..
Thanks again,
Rory
Hi Rory.
It's not possible in Encore or Premiere.
The conversion process is a complex one & consists of changing the actual resolution from 720x576 to 720x480, which gives a very different shaped pixel as well.
Then it also changes the frame rate of the footage from 25 to 29.97.
The easiest way to do this with Adobe tools is to use Atter Effects, making sure that the AE render is locked to the duration of the composition - this is critical, or you will end up with footage at the wrong speed. All menus will need to be rebuilt.
Sorry I cannot give you better news.
As a general rule of thumb, if in doiubt - create & author in NTSC as there are almost no PAL setups that cannot output either pure NTSC or PAL-60, yet there are very few that can go the other way.....

Debugging a non-playing encore authored dvd

So I just got into using Encore the other day and am very pleased with the flexibility of it.
But my first dvd that I have tried to create with it, I have ran into a slight issue. On all my dvd playback software, it plays fine save for an entry clip (on disc insert, it should go to a 20 second clip I created and at the end, move to the main menu). They all seem to go straight to the menu on me. But otherwise, all the included clips play fine.
But when I try to play it back in this Panasonic dvd recorder I have here (mind you, it supports a wide variety of disc formats: dvd-ram, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd+rw, dvd-rw) and it keeps telling me it's an unsupported disc. I authored the dvd to an iso in encore then used infrarecorder to burn that iso to a dvd-r.
The structure of the dvd as best as I can display here is as follows:
Disc insert > 20 second clip transcoded by encore to m2v/ac3 > main menu.
From the main menu there are a large selection of clips to play back as well as a link to a second menu with more linked clips. Each one of these clips are on individual timelines and are all m2v/mp2 that are transcoded by tmpgenc plus.
I'm kinda stuck here trying to figure out exactly what the culprit is and what's keeping it from playing. Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Some notes and saved conversations...
To
Burn Error Proof DVDs (Well, close to error proof!)
Use the SLOWEST possible burn option your burner will allow in Encore, since it is much better to take a bit more time burning the disc than it is to burn "fast" and have a disc that won't play
Set the VIDEO portion of the transcoding options to a Maximum of 7,000 so your burned disc will have a better chance at playing in desktop players (which support burned discs, if at all, only as an "after thought" of the DVD specification)
Use AC3 or PCM audio transcode settings for best player compatibility (some discussion of MPEG audio not being supported by all players, especially for NTSC discs)
Buy and use Taiyo Yuden (or Verbatim?) brand blank discs
Read this
ENTIRE message
Concerning Replication
And this one
About Authoring and Playing a DVD
Discussion of
Peak Bitrate
Here is one
Bit Budget Calculator

Rendered gradient from AE goes blocky on authored dvd from Encore

Hi,
Here is the background on my project.
I decided to work at 1920x1080 resolution because sometime this year we want to start going blu-ray. I have some text effects etc that I made in AE and also put some 720x480 videos in that I scaled up.
I made a solid with a ramp so that I have a nice soft gradient background behind my text and images. I export to mpeg2-dvd with the quality turned all the way up, but I stretch my project to be 872x486 so that it fits a standard dvd resolution.
I then bring my mpeg2 files into Encore, do my chapters, etc, and build. When I burn and view my project on a standard dvd player my nice soft gradient background is blocky.
Can someone tell me why this is happening? Is it because I am stretching my video to a smaller size? Or is it a quality issue?

Compressing gradients well is one of the hardest things a codec has to do. But I suspect you are double-compressing your material. 872x486 is not a standard for DVD authoring, as DVDs don't use square pixels, so it's possible you're encoding MPEG2 from AE, then re-encoding it in Encore.
AE is not the world's best compression tool. I recommend you do the following:
Create a new composition in AE that is a true DVD standard. Use the presets within AE. Presuming you're using Widescreen NTSC, 720 × 480 anamorphic pixels (D1 Widescreen preset).
Drag your HD comp into the new comp and resize to fit.
Render the comp to a lossless Quicktime file. The "Lossless" Output Module is a reasonable choice: it will output a lossless Quicktime Animation file.
Import the file to Encore DVD and allow Encore to do the encoding to MPEG2.
If you still see blockiness/banding, try adding a small amount of noise to the gradient in AE before rendering.

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