DVD newbee HELP... (just some easy questions)

[Mylenium]

You need to make your image sequence 720 by 576 pixels, otherwise DVD authoring programs will give you an error or warning. You need to use e.g. Encore 'cos AE won't create all the extra info and data structures required for a proper DVD - it only exports an MPEG-II stream. If your video clip is the only clip on your DVD, you need not worry to about anything. It will be the first program chain (PGC) in the first video title set (VTS) and hence be used automatically.

Mylenium

[krembo99]

Thanks a lot ..

You need to make your image sequence 720 by 576 pixels,
this is why i am passing through AE ... to "strech" the file , or maybe to get a black frame in the missing space ..

You need to use e.g. Encore 'cos AE won't create all the extra info and data structures required for a proper DVD - it only exports an MPEG-II stream.

is the other way possiable ? import simple frames to Encore and Bypassing AE ?? (assuming i have no PP to do ..)


If your video clip is the only clip on your DVD, you need not worry to about anything. It will be the first program chain (PGC) in the first video title set (VTS) and hence be used automatically.

will it also loop by itself or do i need to give it some command ??

Thanks again ..

[AAAron]

I´m not to familar with dvd authoring, but when I made a looping dvd (in dvd studio pro, on mac) I had to put in a command to make it loop. I think it was some kind of marker that told the dvd to go to the beginning of the dvd at the end of the clip.

[Mylenium]

is the other way possiable ? import simple frames to Encore and Bypassing AE ?? (assuming i have no PP to do ..)

Yeah, indeed Encore will do the encoding when you create the DVD so AE is not a must. Personally I find it just irritating 'cos until you see the real encoded stuff there is no way to predict quality and file sizes.



will it also loop by itself or do i need to give it some command ??
Thanks again ..

Nope. Except for the autostart command (normally in technical terms "jump to first VTS and open the first PGC you find") all other commands have to be explicitly assigned - be it menus, buttons, subpictures, jumps, stream switching and whatnot... But don't worry, it's no more than two or three mouse clicks. I'm sure in Encore there is a simple playback option for each track/ PGC that would allow you to turn on looping.

Mylenium

[krembo99]

Thanks for all the quick answers .. :-)

i forgot two more.. :-)
if the DVD is autorun like i said before, so a menu is not a must , is that right ?

and the next one is more tricky i guess...
Will the DVD weight 4.7 regardless of what i´m putting inside, or does a 3 minute film will weight just a part of it , let´s say 700 - 1200 Mb ?

[Mylenium]

Thanks for all the quick answers .. :-)

i forgot two more.. :-)
if the DVD is autorun like i said before, so a menu is not a must , is that right ?

Yepp, correct. No menu necessary.


and the next one is more tricky i guess...
Will the DVD weight 4.7 regardless of what i´m putting inside, or does a 3 minute film will weight just a part of it , let´s say 700 - 1200 Mb ?

No, 3 minutes will actually be more like 250 MB. You have a maximum data rate of about 9 Mbit/sec available for all streams (video, audio, subpictures etc.) so you could squeeze about 45 minutes at this high data rate on one disc (more with lower data rates). Due to the formatting required for DVD(Video) burning still takes rather long compared to a data disc and effectively you only have about 4,3 GB (video DVD uses a rather large fixed sector sizes so not all sectors are fully writable with data due to overhead).

Mylenium

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