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DVD Studio Pro: Authoring a DVD that plays automatically without a menu

DVD Studio Pro: Authoring a DVD that plays automatically without a menu

Most DVDs are created with at least one menu from which the user can select tracks, other menus, special features, and so forth. In some cases, you may wish to create a DVD that just plays its content without the need for user interaction.

The following steps describe one way to author a disc in DVD Studio Pro without a menu, and without the need for the user to press the Play button. This enables a track to play automatically when the user puts the disc into a DVD player. The key to these steps is to use the First Play function.

VTS Allocation in DVD Studio Pro 4 By David Nagel

VTS Allocation in DVD Studio Pro 4: "But why should you care? Well, in general, you don't really need to concern yourself with it simply because DVD Studio Pro itself does a decent job of allocating elements automatically. However, there are two cases in which DVD Studio Pro's VTS editor can come in handy. In the first place, it allows you to spread your menus over multiple video title sets, which, in effect, eliminates the 1 GB menu barrier that previous versions of DVD Studio Pro had. In the second, it also allows you to create new video title sets and place elements in them as you see fit (mostly), which can be helpful for reducing the lag time experience by end users when jumping from one element to the next."

(Via http://www.creativemac.com/.)

DVD Studio Pro: AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio may not play back in HD DVD projects

DVD Studio Pro: AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio may not play back in HD DVD projects :
Solution
If you are compressing your DVD assets on an Intel-based Mac, use Linear PCM audio in HD DVD projects.

Scripting 'Last Menu Viewed' in DVD Studio Pro

Scripting 'Last Menu Viewed' in DVD Studio Pro:

One question about DVD Studio Pro seems to be coming up a lot lately: How do you assign a control to a DVD remote's Menu button to take the viewer to the last menu used? For example, if you're viewing a track from a chapter menu, you want people to be able to go back to the chapter menu by hitting the Menu button. But if the viewer accessed the track from the main menu, you want the viewer to go back to the main menu instead

From Creative Mac.

DVDSTEPBYSTEP.COM

DVDSTEPBYSTEP.COM:

A short movie which shows how to set up returns from tracks to menus can be found here. It use both the inspector window and the connections view to show two of the approaches available

A small site with some tips on DVDSP

digitalFAQ.com | Blank DVD Media Quality Guide

digitalFAQ.com | Blank DVD Media Quality Guide: "VIDEO MEDIA GUIDES -> Blank media quality guide & FAQ"

Really nice way to burn less coasters.

QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component: Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 files is not supported

QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component: Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 files is not supported:

Unsupported MPEG-2 Media Types

• Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 streams

• Playback of transport streams (which combine audio and video with independent time bases)

• AC3 audio (audio is not decoded)

• Ripped DVD content (content from a DVD video disc saved to another drive)"

DVD Studio Pro 4: "Formatting failed" and "Muxer Bit Rate too high" error with H.264 for HD DVD

DVD Studio Pro 4: "Formatting failed" and "Muxer Bit Rate too high" error with H.264 for HD DVD: "DVD Studio Pro 4 allows you to author DVDs with high definition (HD) video that conform to the HD DVD standard. There are two H.264 presets in Compressor 2 for encoding video for an HD DVD project. Symptom

If you customize one of these presets by increasing the bit rate of the H.264 stream, you may get a 'Formatting failed' error and the log would list 'Muxer Bit Rate Too High' when you build your project in DVD Studio Pro. This can occur when you set the bit rate higher than the preset bit rate."

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DVD Studio Pro 4: "Formatting failed" and "Muxer Bit Rate too high" error with H.264 for HD DVD

DVD Studio Pro 4: "Formatting failed" and "Muxer Bit Rate too high" error with H.264 for HD DVD: "DVD Studio Pro 4 allows you to author DVDs with high definition (HD) video that conform to the HD DVD standard. There are two H.264 presets in Compressor 2 for encoding video for an HD DVD project. Symptom If you customize one of these presets by increasing the bit rate of the H.264 stream, you may get a 'Formatting failed' error and the log would list 'Muxer Bit Rate Too High' when you build your project in DVD Studio Pro. This can occur when you set the bit rate higher than the preset bit rate."

DVDSP 4.0.3 update

DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3 updates compliance for the 1.0 HD DVD Video standard content specification to Tiger and Panther based users. Users with DVD Studio Pro 4.0 or later need to install this update to ensure their projects are compliant with the 1.0 HD DVD Video standard content specification.