HD DVD headache

thefilmaddict

thefilmaddict

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I want to make a HD DVD using Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. I've tried a few times and the video looks good, but no audio. What audio settings should I export? Any other settings I should know about?

Thanks.
 
Are you exporting from Compressor or simply encoding within DVDSP4? If you're encoding via Compressor, you typically need to drag the separate exported audio track onto the DVDSP4 timeline so that it will mux with the video stream.

Btw, you can make a 720p or 1080i HD-DVD with regular DVD-R's (or even dual layer DVD+R) and a standard burner. I get about an hour of 10 mbs h.264 720p via Compressor on a standard 4.7 GB DVD-R. Two hours for dual layer discs. For full quality MPEG2 HD-DVD, it's much less. About 25 min. per layer (25 mbs rate)

If you want to play the discs back via Apple's DVD player I'd recommend a 16x burner, otherwise they should play ok in the Toshiba or XBox 360 HD DVD players. A lot of people don't know this but no newfangled HD-DVD burner is actually needed.
 
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I tried both compressor and DVD Studio Pro.

I have a normal DVD burner.

I am creating the HD DVD for my Toshiba player.

The video looks great, but no sound.

I used the MPEG 2 HD DVD setting.

I think I need PCM audio, not dolby. I thought I did that right, but no sound.

What exact compressor settings to you use for audio and video?

I must be missing a step or two.
 
I gave up on creating the HD DVD with my G5 and DVD SP 4.0.3.

I borrowed my friends brand new Intel Mac with the latest version of DVD SP AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY!!!

My movie looks and sounds great on HD DVD. It's a great way to show the film.

I was going to wait to buy a new mac until they had either HD DVD or Blu Ray burners in them that could create those types of DVD's that will play in consumer players. Is that happening anytime soon? I thank that I want to go in the Blu Ray direction.
 
Elton said:
Btw, you can make a 720p or 1080i HD-DVD with regular DVD-R's (or even dual layer DVD+R) and a standard burner. I get about an hour of 10 mbs h.264 720p via Compressor on a standard 4.7 GB DVD-R. Two hours for dual layer discs. For full quality MPEG2 HD-DVD, it's much less. About 25 min. per layer (25 mbs rate)
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Really? Wow, I never knew this was possible. Thanks!
 
I know, it's funny but it works just fine burning to DVD-R--you just have less capacity.

Even funnier is that you can export HDV 1080i QT movies from FCP and import into DVDSP4 and burn as HD-DVD without any further encoding time. All DVDSP4 has to do is mux the audio, which doesn't take long.

I can actually burn a MPEG2 1080i HD-DVD from HDV material much MUCH faster than downconverting to SD MPEG2 and making a standard anamorphic DVD.
 
Elton said:
I know, it's funny but it works just fine burning to DVD-R--you just have less capacity.

Even funnier is that you can export HDV 1080i QT movies from FCP and import into DVDSP4 and burn as HD-DVD without any further encoding time. All DVDSP4 has to do is mux the audio, which doesn't take long.

I can actually burn a MPEG2 1080i HD-DVD from HDV material much MUCH faster than downconverting to SD MPEG2 and making a standard anamorphic DVD.
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So does that mean you can now burn to HD-DVD using FCS and play it on one of those Toshiba HD-A2 players WalMart is selling for less than a hundred bucks? (Whoops, just checked again and that sale may be over...) But still...
 
Hey, I just went through this last week. Bought a new HDDVD player (Toshiba) and burned a HDDVD in FCP/SP. The video was great but the audio was choppy. I just used the defaults in FCP and SP. Then I discovered that a commercial HDDVD would not play, so the player was suspect.

Plugged it into the router and found out there was a firmeware upgrade. Did that and the HDDVD I had made on FCP/SP played just fine. (The commercial disk played also).

So - check your firmware.
 
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