I hadn't thought that SF might mux the output.
Of course I've seen a lot of comment about TMPGEnc throughout the site. Can you synopsize what it's best use is and where it makes sense in a workflow. I think I had a version of it back in 2003 on my old computer.
I don't know what the software price is these days, what should I expect?
Is there anything else that can demux I might already have? Perhaps not as well eh?
Yes, I meant SFPro10...not DVDW2...it was late.
Thanks for the MPEG clarifications.
I re-rendered from AP6.5 successfully for vbr (6500kbps min; 7500 avg; 8000 max )...ended up a little smaller (3.0Gb vs 3.1) and 98 mins vs. 100mins. This time DVDW2 let it fly with the .wav audio for title and menu.
No sweat using
ImgBurn first time.
I even remembered to set the burn to 8x for my 16x Verbatim DVD-R...approx 12 mins including verify.
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One problem...and I think it goes back to the NLE.
(this might need a new thread started on subject)
I use Photoshop .psd stills for some graphics with text.
I also use AP6.5 generated titles on the timeline as well.
The still text looks crappy in the end result. The AP6.5 titles do not.
They both look bad in DVDW2, which I just wrote off as a really lousy preview resolution. The menu background still (also using a .psd) looks fine in the preview though. So I figured since the menu is prepared by DVDW2 it's going to look cleaner than the main title video .m2v file displayed in the final preview.
The thing is...I checked Ap6.5 and it's preview is great.
I checked the .m2v through the windows media player, and it looks great.
So how come I get into DVDW2 and the preview doesn't look so good (all the video preview is somewhat low resolution) and the output for DVD is worse? Am I re-encoding inadvertently?
I didn't notice anywhere that I missed or had a wrong setting for the burn to DVD folder.
Again the titles from AP6.5 are fine as are the titles in the DVDW2 menu including it's .psd still background.
Should I have flattened the .psd files before rendering out of AP6.5?
Are the layers in the "active" .psd(s) creating problems? This doesn't seem likely as the .m2v output from the encoder plays well...oh...uh...on the computer screen. (hmmm...).
The DVD result for the .psd still-based text is slightly doubled (not blurred) like someone (me) with an un-corrected astigmatism would see it...just slightly offset from itself.
No redundant file, no inadvertent drop shadow with same color. Remember, its looks fine in the native .m2v.
Any thoughts?