On 14 Apr 2005, at 11:08 PM, Rod wrote:
On 11/04/2005, at 8:50 AM, Rod wrote:
Hi All!
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience in putting EyeTV
recordings into DVD Studio Pro? I have a EyeTV 400, so it records
Digital TV.
When I go to export the recordings, it has an option for DVDSP
(outputs .mpa [audio] and .mpv [video]). The .mpa files go straight
into DVDSP, but the video files come up wrong format.
Anybody know what I should be doing to get these recordings to work?
The built in DVD encoder in Toast is hopeless (and takes a long
time), whereas I *assume* I already have a pre-encoded version of the
recordings for DVDSP.
Well, I have discovered the problem. The bit rate of the recordings
is at 15000 Kbps, which is way above the 9800 Kbps limit of DVDSP.
From what I can gather, the latets EyeTV boxes allow you to adjust the
bit rate at which the recordings are saved. Unfortunately for me, the
400 I have does not.
Does anyone know of some software that will reduce the bit rate of the
recordings. Everything else is fine except for the bit rate.
DropDv will recode the mpv into a dv as will other programs, but you
are better off getting eyeTV to do this as I understand the program
will allow this. Unless the program has manual functions for bitrate
which by the way seems strange it does not.
So in eyeTV get it to output into dv then this can be imported directly
into DVDSP or iMovie(FCP) advantage of this method editing footage.
Compressor will be capable of converting dv to mpeg but read further.
Now DVDSP will not except the maximum bitrate and more importantly nor
will a DvD player, this is also a combined total of Video, Audio and
titles-graphics etc.
Apple suggests 560/minutes=maxbitrate remembering audio is added to
this as is the other but very minimal and not usually a problem. Their
are programs to assist with the mathematics if necessary. But if you
are not proficient with this ideology I would suggest adding raw
(unencoded) files ie dv into DVDSP and if you guess wrong it is very
easy to modify and quicker to re-encode than have to rebuild mpegs then
rebuild your output in DVDSP. Also if you set DVDSP up correctly most
times it will build mpegs, vobs etc. while you are designing your DvD
hence less compiling-rendering time when it comes time to Build, Format
and Burn your DvD.
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Cheers!
Rob Davies
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