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Date Posted: 13:30:43 06/01/01 Fri
Author: dvdude
Subject: DVD Burners

Below is an excerpt from a newsletter which has some good information and links to sites about DVD burners/burning:

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Making your own DVD is still a mysterious process for most people, and to
learn more than you could possibly want about DVD, skip on over to Jim
Taylor's most excellent DVD FAQ site: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html.
This FAQ section will answer 99% of your questions.

Other good DVD sites:

For a comparison between the old Pioneer DVD Burner, which cost almost as
much as a cheap Hyundai, and the brand spanking new one, go to:
http://www.recipe4dvd.com/103
Another good general resource site: http://www.DVDmadeeasy.com
And if you find these sites not technical enough, and really want to know
that "P-frames are placed in the data stream based upon the nearest previous
I-frame ...", find the cliffhanger-on-very-page white paper "DVD In Detail"
in the Technical Library section at http://www.cinram.com.

Editorial - I Burned my first DVD and Lived To Talk About It

With the release of the Pioneer DVD Burner, first available only in select
models of Macs and Compaqs, and now becoming available to anyone, DVD
burning is going to take off. What used to be a technical and arcane
procedure done on $100,000 machines, is now going to be done by school kids
on a $1500 computer. What CD burning has done to music, DVD burning will do
to home movies. And its possibilities are more than just home movies: demo
reels, training courses, short films, and documentaries are all going to
migrate to this. It's very exciting.

With this all in my mind, I sat down at 11 o'clock one night to make my very
first DVD. I have an Apple with the SuperDrive DVD Burner and it comes with
iDVD, a very simple and basic DVD authoring program. Since this was my first
stab at DVD burning, I expected to be throwing the computer across the room,
and collapsing in a heap of tears. So, I started.

The project I wanted to burn was a short film that I had in Final Cut Pro,
an editing program. For iDVD, all you need to do is "export" the project via
QuickTime. So with the timeline window active, hit File>Export>Make Final
Cut Pro Movie. Kept the current settings as is, and did NOT check Make
Self-Contained Movie. Final Cut Pro then makes a "reference" file of the
completed film, which took about 90 seconds for a 7 minute project. So far,
so good.

Quit Final Cut Pro, and open iDVD. I add the "movie," which is a reference
file, select a background I like, and type in the heading text. I hit the
Preview button to see what my DVD will look like. It plays and looks fine.
Great . With trembling hands, I hit BURN DISC. The tray for the burner spits
open, and I put in a blank DVD disc. The computer swallows it, and starts to
burn. And ... it burned it. Twenty minutes later, it spits the disc out,
asking me if I want to burn another one. Mmm, this is too easy I think.

Take the DVD home and pop it into my home DVD player. The DVD menu comes up
no problem. Hit play, and presto - my first DVD movie.

No tears, no problems, no issues. iDVD is so easy a 4 year-old can do it.

DVD Tech Tip

As I discovered the hard way from making my first DVD, it's a good idea to
put 1 to 2 seconds of black in front of your movie. You do this in your
editing software by putting a slug at the beginning before you export it.
The reason for doing this is when you hit play on the DVD, it instantly
starts your movie, and can be quite jarring. By putting black at the head of
your film, when you hit play on the DVD, you'll see black for a second or
two, which is a nicer transition. Do the same for the tail as well - five
seconds of black, so when your movie ends on the DVD, you don't jump
instantly to the Menu screen, but will have a transition of black before the
menu screen.

The best way in your edit software to accomplish this is to make a duplicate
of your final cut, and make it strictly for DVD output, and put the slugs
in that duplicate version. Personally, I re-name the cut "for DVD," just to
keep things clear.

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