DVD Studio Pro Question

[earlygrace]

I have a DVD that is just 2 big for a dick with extras and menus and all that shit. So I have ripped just the movie from the dvd and now have 5 files:

t1p2-00.ac3
t1p2-00.m2v
t1p2-00.spc
t1p2-01.spc
t1p2-02.spc

So I just dump the .spc files, then import the .ac3 and .m2v into DVD Studio Pro.

Drag .m2v file into Tracks window, and the .ac3 into the audio folder of that track folder correct?

after this is done I just Build Disk, which creates the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that I burn in toast as a DVD.

Does this sound correct? am I missing anything important?

[earlygrace]

ohh yea, being new to DVD Studio Pro, is there a preview or something like that to see the movie, check sync and stuff?

[AntnyMD]

You have to tell the DVD to make that track the first play item by selecting it in the Startup Action drop-down on the right side of the workspace. If you don't do that, your DVD will spin up then stop, playing nothing.

[earlygrace]

yep you are right I just figured that out the hard way.

Also the way I did this the movie no longer has any chapters so I have to fast forward for a long time to get to the end of the movie, is there a easy way to add chapters say every 10 minutes, I don't care if it is at certain points in the movie, just a way to fast forward quicker.

Cheers

[AntnyMD]

You have to manually enter entrypoints (chapters). I can't remember the exact name of the thing you click on in the Track window (as I'm at work now on a shitty Windows machine), but you double-click that then add Markers. Oh yes, I think its called Markers.

Its hard to position markers accurately (in my opinion) in DVD Studio Pro for OS X. The previous version for OS 9 let you go in and manually enter the timecode.

[earlygrace]

great, I am in OS9 I will have to check that out when I get a chance.

Most Commercial DVD's are over 4.7 gb, but are the actually movies larger on average?, if I just wanted to rip out the movie no menus extras subtitles?

[AntnyMD]

Action movies in general produce larger MPEG files than low action dramas. However, no matter the kind of movie, it depends on what bitrate was used to encode the movie. I have some comedies on DVDs I purchased that were encoded with way too much bitrate, and some dramas that look spectacular, even though the professional encoder used an average bitrate of 3.7Mbps! They must have used umpteen passes in their VBR scheme.