DVL-Digest 1283 - Postings: Index DVD encoding - (2) What format are DVD's in stores ?? - (2) Which DVD Recorder for my PC ? - (2) DVD encoding - "Perry Mitchell" Now now children! What our French colleague neglected to tell us is what platform he is using. If he is on the Mac then I can sympathise for a lack of affordable speedy MPEG2 encoding. In despair I decided to bite the bullet and for the price of DVD SP I made a production PC, and for that platform there is all manner of MPEG2 solutions. I've just received Premiere 6.5 and that has a 'free' encoder (PC only) that seems pretty speedy and there are numerous others for all pockets. I'm still picking up the threads for the PC, but on the Mac 'Toast 5' will allow extra copies of a DVD to be burnt to the A-03 from the VIDEO_TS folder. I am sure something similar must exist on the PC. Perry Mitchell DVD encoding - "Perry Mitchell" From: Yves Casavant I really didn't want to start a war here ;) Ok sometimes in english my meaning are not always like it should be. I'll try to explain better. When I do some weddings the DVD is about 1 1/2 hour in 2 or 3 separate clips. The opening, the ceremony, the evening etc... I edit the project on a PC with a Matrox DigiSuite LE with Speed Razor and it take about 24 hours to encode the final project in Mpeg2. What I was asking is if it is possible to take the output from my Matrox (component) burn it on the DVD (stand alone unit) and then put it back in the computer to burn the clips on another DVD and add some menu. I only need to put one menu in front of each clip. It's only to cut the rendering time. I don't want to cut the quality. So if its not possible, i will probably buy a stand alone , but only for the jobs that I don't need fancy menu. What format are DVD's in stores ?? - "Perry Mitchell" From: Will Standley OK, let me try a different question... If I go down to Wal-Mart or Circuit City or where ever... and buy a DVD movie or concert or whatever... 1 - How can I tell what format it is... (Is it on the box, on the label, in the credits, or what?) 2 - What format is it likely to be ?? thanks for any comments, Will What format are DVD's in stores ?? - "Perry Mitchell" From: Maike13 Perry, Thanks for the very informative post. I've always been confused by this. So, I've seen statements that commercial disks are in DVD format, and also that they're in DVD-Video format. If I follow your post correctly, DVD refers to the physical layer format and DVD-Video to the Application layer format. Correct? Which DVD Recorder for my PC ? - "Perry Mitchell" Garry - you're preserving a myth! DVD recording formats are simply a means to an end of a common format called DVD (forgetting for a moment about the General/Authoring issues) and there is no strong evidence that either is particularly more successful than the other. There may be a few decks that prefer one type or the other but most decks that play one will also play the other. As Vidiot mentions, there is far more differences with the media used where in general you get what you pay for. This is nothing like the Betamax/VHS or even the DVCAM/DVCPRO 'wars' and we shouldn't confuse newbies with any allusions in that direction. It is far more similar to the rival DV codecs that have been used for computer rendering. Perry Mitchell Which DVD Recorder for my PC ? - "Perry Mitchell" From: Garry Curtis > Garry - you're preserving a myth! DVD recording formats are simply a means > to an end of a common format called DVD (forgetting for a moment about the > General/Authoring issues) and there is no strong evidence that either is > particularly more successful than the other. There may be a few decks that > prefer one type or the other but most decks that play one will also play the > other. Most decks ? Maybe . Maybe now , finally . Being aware of the format's and where to go to get more info was my basic aim . The fact that Sony see's fit to bring out a new burner that supports all 4 formats (all you have to do is try and decide which one to burn in) serves to support my point "there is no DVD recording standard that is totally universal" . If a disk that has been created by you or someone you know doesn't play in your machine , then I guess you could blame the player for not supporting all 4 formats . Personally , I blame the manufacturers for creating different standards , when one would have done nicely . (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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