If you can give me more details, Melina, it would help.
I work in AVID and I export MOV and WAV files.
I then go to Sorenson Squeeze. Usually I ask for an MP4 file and those I put up on the site. But if I ask for an MPEG file, I get two files as a result - an MPV and an MPA file.
Paul says that he hasn't been able to get any of our DVD burning programs (Nero and CD-DVD Creator) to combine those two files so that the audio is interleaved with the video. The only way he knows to combine them is by putting them through REELDVD, which is how we make the disk image that we rename as an ISO file and keep to make copies later.
An MPG song would obviously be of higher quality, but my only goal is to get a file that can be played from a DVD, not to get a high quality computer playable song. When they get big, they're more likely to cause problems while playing on the computer, and we've got lots of RAM and fast CPUs and STILL get problems with large song files.
What file formats would a song have to be in and not be in a disk image? Do most people have the programs that would put that file format onto a DVD?
Can people go into an ISO file and pull out the song?
Sorry to be confused, but I'm clearly still not straight on these matters. Best, Mary
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As far as the types of DVDs go, I've settled on making -R types when I make collection DVDs for people. I've had some trouble with +Rs not playing on some people's machines, and -R seems, so far, to be a safe fallback position. For myself, I use +RWs and I keep the guts of each of my songs on a single separate consolidation +RW DVD as a backup, since I've had hard disks failing left and right. The consolidation Avid gives me takes each clip that makes up the video and saves the clip with a 10 second safety to the left and right of the exact clip I used. It's easier for me to save one song per backup DVD, though I could probably fit 2 if I were pushing it. Some have so many edits that the consolidated clips have to be fit across 2 DVDs.
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Date: 2007-06-15 07:32 pm (UTC)I work in AVID and I export MOV and WAV files.
I then go to Sorenson Squeeze. Usually I ask for an MP4 file and those I put up on the site. But if I ask for an MPEG file, I get two files as a result - an MPV and an MPA file.
Paul says that he hasn't been able to get any of our DVD burning programs (Nero and CD-DVD Creator) to combine those two files so that the audio is interleaved with the video. The only way he knows to combine them is by putting them through REELDVD, which is how we make the disk image that we rename as an ISO file and keep to make copies later.
An MPG song would obviously be of higher quality, but my only goal is to get a file that can be played from a DVD, not to get a high quality computer playable song. When they get big, they're more likely to cause problems while playing on the computer, and we've got lots of RAM and fast CPUs and STILL get problems with large song files.
What file formats would a song have to be in and not be in a disk image? Do most people have the programs that would put that file format onto a DVD?
Can people go into an ISO file and pull out the song?
Sorry to be confused, but I'm clearly still not straight on these matters.
Best, Mary
*********
UNRELATED
As far as the types of DVDs go, I've settled on making -R types when I make collection DVDs for people. I've had some trouble with +Rs not playing on some people's machines, and -R seems, so far, to be a safe fallback position. For myself, I use +RWs and I keep the guts of each of my songs on a single separate consolidation +RW DVD as a backup, since I've had hard disks failing left and right. The consolidation Avid gives me takes each clip that makes up the video and saves the clip with a 10 second safety to the left and right of the exact clip I used. It's easier for me to save one song per backup DVD, though I could probably fit 2 if I were pushing it. Some have so many edits that the consolidated clips have to be fit across 2 DVDs.