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DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio
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DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio

by Marc Loy
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Building a DVD-9 Project

To prepare your movie for burning to a dual-layer DVD, you still encode the video in MPEG-2 and the audio in AC3. The only thing you really need to do differently is to think about that break point. Of course, now you can encode longer movies at much higher quality. You can get nearly four hours of video at VHS quality, or two hours of video at top-notch quality.

Selecting OTP or PTP in DVDSP

Figure C-4. Selecting OTP or PTP in DVDSP

The rest of the project will proceed exactly like a traditional project with menus and tracks (and scripts and stories). We put together an example project using the independent film Remaining Class, which we covered in Chapter 6. At just less than two hours, it's a perfect candidate for high-quality encoding and burning to a dual-layer disc.

We encoded the film at a constant bit rate of 7Mbps. The file weighed in at 5.7GB. (The audio was a standard AC3 file and took up about 375MB of space.) We just dropped the clips into a standard track via the handy auto-chaptering mechanism we looked at back in Chapter 4. Figure C-5 shows the Outline view of our big project. The estimated size is highlighted in the toolbar.

Our long (but simple) film project

Figure C-5. Our long (but simple) film project

We want to use OTP for our layout and set a specific break point. Figure C-6 highlights these choices in ...

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