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HD and SD projects
One of the more frequent errors when using DVD Studio Pro seems to be that users are creating HD projects by not changing their preferences. In the main, these projects will work fine up until the point that you burn a disc and then try to play it back. Because HD projects have a very different structure, and most DVD Players can’t read them, the discs will appear to fail.
In a SD project you only get two folders at the root of the disc (unless you have added ROM content) and these are called ‘VIDEO_TS’ and ‘AUDIO_TS’. The audio folder will be empty, and that’s fine. The video folder will contain ‘.ifo’, ‘.bup’ and ‘.vob’ files only. If there is anything else in there you could have problems when playing back.
To avoid these issues, make sure that when you set up your project you set it to be SD. When HD players and HD authoring become more mainstream you’ll have less problems (although I guarantee there will be some…).
Laptop stolen, data loss
Just a brief note to anyone who has been in contact with me over the last few months. My laptop was stolen yesterday and I lost a lot of data, including a fair number of email addresses and details. If you have been in touch with me for any reason (be it personal or work-related) please get back in touch… the chances are that I can’t send an email to you at the moment as I won’t have your address.
Additionally, a number of ongoing DVD projects were on that machine, which will now need to be recreated. Apologies if you are waiting for me to complete work for you, it will be completed as soon as possible once I have audited the status of the work I was involved in.
New Tutorials, DVD Consultancy, DVD Freelancers
New tutorials are being added to the site as fast as possible, but sometimes it isn’t fast enough! Just this week there was a challenge about creating subtitles – we think we found a way to solve the problem, and we would like to add a tutorial about how to set up a text based subtitle file so that it just works.
If you would like to request a tutorial, or if you would like to engage our services to work on your project, please just leave a message for us!
Tutorials are free, of course, but they may not get to exactly the problem that you have got. Using our consultancy and freelance services we will build custom solutions that we won’t then give away to anyone else.
Welcome
This site is all about Apple Computer’s software – DVD Studio Pro.
If you are an author, or want to author a DVD, or if you are in the middle of a project and are getting stuck with what to do, it is quite likely that you’ll get the help you need here.
Hal has been authoring DVDs with DVD Studio Pro for many years, and regularly contributes to the Apple forums, working with people from all over the world to get their discs finished. His speciality is finding scripted solutions for navigation issues, and it is no coincidence that many of the files available here are for script based projects.
If you cannot find the answer that you need, please leave a comment and we will work with you to solve your problem.
Finally, not everything in life is for free. Whilst anything here can be freely used without license, changed or adapted, etc, you may find it better to simply ask us to work as a consultant for you.
