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I know how to set the advanced options in Media Studio Pro's INI file, but does anyone know how to do it in DVD Workshop?
I'm trying their demo and it's strange. The interface is over simplistic, like someone's trying too hard to make it appear easy and carefree, but it's not, at least not for the simple one menu disk I'm trying to make. They've hyped it as having all this precision and control over menus. I can't find it yet (I've tried Sonic DVDit, DVDQuickbuilder, and SpruceUP, can't say I've been too impressed with any, although SUP was the best of the three). I can't find any gridlines/guides yet, or how to set advanced menu behavior. I'll worry about their animated buttons and backgrounds after I get a basic structure to work. The online help looks like it hasn't been written yet.
Also, when I bring in my MPG2 footage from my AIW Radeon (MMC 7.1), at the end when I 'master' the DVD, it said it was going to take 22Gigs on my hard drive, even though the source file was only 4Gigs (the 2-hour, 9/11 special). I'm sure this must have something to do with the disparate settings between the source and the project, but how can I make them match? I know the AIW's audio is 44.1Khz, so I'm using MSPro's audio editor to convert the demuxed audio stream to 48Khz, but I tried that once and lost lip synch at the end of the show. I'm trying that again.
This was the same problem I had of never being able to get MSPro to Smart Render a file, I could never set a 100% match with my source files, so it always re-rendered. It seems like everyone designs these tools to work with AVI or MOV files. Like no one ever likes to use some other encoder to make MPG's? why can't these things autodetect all these settings and display conflicts with your project settings appropriately? Womble's MPG2VCR seems to do this well, why can't Ulead?
I was hoping that if DVD Workshop has the Mainconcept Codec, and not Ligos, then maybe its advanced options would be better. If they exist at all. I sure hope so, for their sake.
But how to turn them on? Anyone know?
I'm trying their demo and it's strange. The interface is over simplistic, like someone's trying too hard to make it appear easy and carefree, but it's not, at least not for the simple one menu disk I'm trying to make. They've hyped it as having all this precision and control over menus. I can't find it yet (I've tried Sonic DVDit, DVDQuickbuilder, and SpruceUP, can't say I've been too impressed with any, although SUP was the best of the three). I can't find any gridlines/guides yet, or how to set advanced menu behavior. I'll worry about their animated buttons and backgrounds after I get a basic structure to work. The online help looks like it hasn't been written yet.
Also, when I bring in my MPG2 footage from my AIW Radeon (MMC 7.1), at the end when I 'master' the DVD, it said it was going to take 22Gigs on my hard drive, even though the source file was only 4Gigs (the 2-hour, 9/11 special). I'm sure this must have something to do with the disparate settings between the source and the project, but how can I make them match? I know the AIW's audio is 44.1Khz, so I'm using MSPro's audio editor to convert the demuxed audio stream to 48Khz, but I tried that once and lost lip synch at the end of the show. I'm trying that again.
This was the same problem I had of never being able to get MSPro to Smart Render a file, I could never set a 100% match with my source files, so it always re-rendered. It seems like everyone designs these tools to work with AVI or MOV files. Like no one ever likes to use some other encoder to make MPG's? why can't these things autodetect all these settings and display conflicts with your project settings appropriately? Womble's MPG2VCR seems to do this well, why can't Ulead?
I was hoping that if DVD Workshop has the Mainconcept Codec, and not Ligos, then maybe its advanced options would be better. If they exist at all. I sure hope so, for their sake.
But how to turn them on? Anyone know?
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