vasudev71
2nd March 2005, 04:19
Hi Arky,
I have some questions on DVD Studio Pro 3 before venturing into it.
Btw, I will be getting a Mac in 10 days time and the main reason to use a Mac is to use DVD SP3.
I will be following the typical setup that you are
doing now. Encode all my assets in PC based software encoder (CCE
or any other best encoder), copy the stuff to Mac to my ext. firewire hard drive and import it into DVDSP.
The other day I was talking to my friend on this setup and he told me for the motion menu (with background video),
I would have to use my original footage (NTSC DV AVI).
The reason being he told me that if I point to a PC encoded
m2v file as the background video for my motion menu, DVDSP 3 will again re-encode it which he said is unnecessary.
Now, in your case, what do you do in these scenarios?
What I want to achieve is to use the built in menu templates, buttons, shapes that are available in DVDSP 3 and just modify
it to suit my tastes.
Btw, does DVD SP3 support NTSC DV AVI files natively?
Also, how about this:
I have a ext. firewire hard drive (250GB) that I want to use it in both Mac and PC. I know that Mac supports FAT32. But, all I want is this: Can I designate 3 partitions as NTFS for PC and the rest of the partitions as HFS for Mac on the same ext. firewire hard drive? Btw, what's your setup in this scenario?
Also, does DVD SP3 also support .wma and .mp3 files for my second audio track? What I want is to have a second Audio track
that the user can select from his DVD player to switch between 2 different audio tracks. The first audio track is the original recorded audio got from the footage and the second audio is just a
background classical music.
Finally, I have a P4 HT laptop with Dual layer capability. Can I make DVD SP3 to write the entire DVD folder structure on my ext. firewire hard drive and then use my laptop based DVD writer to write the
folder structure to a DVD disc? Will there be any PC/Mac file format incompatibility?
Appreciate your reply.
Thanks.
VS
I have some questions on DVD Studio Pro 3 before venturing into it.
Btw, I will be getting a Mac in 10 days time and the main reason to use a Mac is to use DVD SP3.
I will be following the typical setup that you are
doing now. Encode all my assets in PC based software encoder (CCE
or any other best encoder), copy the stuff to Mac to my ext. firewire hard drive and import it into DVDSP.
The other day I was talking to my friend on this setup and he told me for the motion menu (with background video),
I would have to use my original footage (NTSC DV AVI).
The reason being he told me that if I point to a PC encoded
m2v file as the background video for my motion menu, DVDSP 3 will again re-encode it which he said is unnecessary.
Now, in your case, what do you do in these scenarios?
What I want to achieve is to use the built in menu templates, buttons, shapes that are available in DVDSP 3 and just modify
it to suit my tastes.
Btw, does DVD SP3 support NTSC DV AVI files natively?
Also, how about this:
I have a ext. firewire hard drive (250GB) that I want to use it in both Mac and PC. I know that Mac supports FAT32. But, all I want is this: Can I designate 3 partitions as NTFS for PC and the rest of the partitions as HFS for Mac on the same ext. firewire hard drive? Btw, what's your setup in this scenario?
Also, does DVD SP3 also support .wma and .mp3 files for my second audio track? What I want is to have a second Audio track
that the user can select from his DVD player to switch between 2 different audio tracks. The first audio track is the original recorded audio got from the footage and the second audio is just a
background classical music.
Finally, I have a P4 HT laptop with Dual layer capability. Can I make DVD SP3 to write the entire DVD folder structure on my ext. firewire hard drive and then use my laptop based DVD writer to write the
folder structure to a DVD disc? Will there be any PC/Mac file format incompatibility?
Appreciate your reply.
Thanks.
VS