few basic questions re:settings

[pdekerillis]

hi guys,
sorry to bother you with this newbie stuff. i've been using the older version of s2d and just updated to the newest version. here are my questions:
1. when you have a movie in the titleset, you can change the name of the button or menu text at the top of the screen (which was on the older version). What is that new button to the right that if you click it...it disables (grey) the button text line?

2. under settings, i think i pretty much understand the concept of pull down. the majority of my video are either mpegs or hi def avi tv episodes which are in ntsc format. do i still need to click "convert pal to ntsc" or "use pulldown" just incase or will it do it automatically. i want the best picture possible. also, why is there a "2 pass encoding" button?? i use that with shrinking dvd9 to dvd5 but what is the purpose of that on this program???

3. under audio encoding, i have "mpeg-audio" clicked off as well as "keep source audio if ac-3" and "keep source audio if 48 khz mpeg-audio". i think that should keep things simple. I just wasnt sure if i should be clicking "ac-3" or "mpeg-audio" verses "keep source audio only".

4. regarding autofit...i am not sure i want that enabled. if i accidently click on it, is there a way to disable it by re-clicking it? if so, will it be obvious that has been disabled?

thanks for your help, cb and all othes who reply.
pdek

[Jikchung]

1. The button makes both texts the same, so you don't have to type it twice.

2. Convert PAL to NTSC should be checked if you need a PAL source converted to NTSC, it won't be done automatically, not entirely sure about Pulldown. The 2 pass encoding is used for an AVI source and will result in much better quality.

3. Not sure.

4. Autofit is used on a per project basis, if you click it, it's enabled for that particular project only. You will only need/be able to use it if your source is AVI (or mixed AVI/MPG) it will not affect sizing on MPG files.

[ChrissyBoy]

2. If you are able to play PAL DVDs no problem the don't check PAL->DVD. As you sometimes convert AVI files i would check "pulldown" becasuse you are likely to see NTSC-Film AVIs but they need to become NTSC to be valid in terms of DVD framerate and "pulldown" does this better than duplicating frames

3:

i have "mpeg-audio" clicked off as well as "keep source audio if ac-3" and "keep source audio if 48 khz mpeg-audio".

Do you mean they are checked? Anyway if they are then that basically means "produce 48KHz mpeg-audio unless the assets have AC3 or already have 48KHz mpeg-audio". If either of these are true then the audio from the original files will be used as-is.