multiple VTS on DVD Studio Pro 1.x ???

[lordsmurf]

Can it be done?

I've got both Half-D1 and Full-D1 files, and do not want to re-encode them, and they cannot be put on separate discs.

FYI: I don't even own a Mac, much less this software or the book to look it up. Trying to find out for somebody else who will be using my source files (and he is in the process of reading his book). Looking for the quck answer from those that probably know better than us both.

Thanks. PC fish out of water here.

He has OS9 on a G4 and is using DVD Studio Pro 1.x (whichever one that came before 1.5).

[galactica]

By VTS you mean.....??
Half D1 and Full D1 you mean......??/
(Just got back from partying so the abbreviations are escaping me, especially VTS!!)

If you are talking Disks as in D1 and D2 the limit will be how much video length there is for the combined, especially since you dont want to reencode them. Only used DVDSP once myself, so im most lilkely not the one to talk to about this, but perhaps some clarification will enable some other people to reply.

ps, your friend needs to get OSX 10.2 on there if he has a G4 and wants to do any video work. Not that you cant in OS9, its just not as stable as 10.2 and there are LOTS more freeware apps for 10.2 and video/audio

[tgpo]

Full D1: In the NTSC system, "Full D1" means 720x480 pixels, and in the PAL and SECAM systems full D1 is 720x576.

Half D1: An MPEG-2 video encoding mode in which half the horizontal resolution is sampled (352x480 for NTSC, 352x576 for PAL).

[tgpo]

The only thing I can think of for what VTS is, would be a Video_TS folder.

[galactica]

That would also be my educated guess...

[geek rock]

i don't see why not. you can have a widescreen video file and a fullscreen video file on the same disc, so why not 2 different resolutions?

[galactica]

makes since. I know Monsters Inc is like that. Widescreen and Standard on the same disc.

now... how to do that??

its beyond me...

[lordsmurf]

VTS... Video Title Sets (from the definition I've seen)

See the files on a DVD?
VTS_01_01
VTS_01_02
VTS_02_01

This means the data type in VTS_01_xx is likely different than what is in VTS_02_xx. Doesn't have to be, but likely.

A single VTS can only hold one resolution/aspect/framerate.
The disc as a whole must be marked NTSC or PAL.

If I want to add multiple resolution (in this case, yes, some Half D1 and FUll D1) to the same disc, it much make a new VTS for each resolution. Most authoring applications cannot do this (except professional ones).

Yeah, I keep telling him to get OS-X, but his call, his system. He's done great in OS9 and he has the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude.

I did not know DVDSP could hold 16:9 and 4:3 at the same time. Given that, I'm betting it'll be able to hold multiple resolutions too.

[galactica]

VTS... Video Title Sets (from the definition I've seen)

See the files on a DVD?
VTS_01_01
VTS_01_02
VTS_02_01

This means the data type in VTS_01_xx is likely different than what is in VTS_02_xx. Doesn't have to be, but likely.

Makes since to me. Often the video will be in all one of the VTS_02_xx for example and it will be widescreen, then you load up a extra say VTS_03_xx and it is now standardscreen.

so its got to be a doable thing. Question is how to get dvdsp to do that. Im sure it can be done. just never done anything like that myself.