FN-FORUM: FW: Flash to DVD continued

date posted 26th June 2007 12:43

Cheers Chris...

Regards to aspect ratio... Just borrowed one of their existing DVDs that
they play in between the KARAOKE slots... These are Music videos... 2
immediate things that strike me:

they are definitely set to wide screen as they are heavily bordered top and
bottom on my wide screen tv... So maybe they are set to 16:9 ?

They AUTO play when inserted in the dvd player... This is 'TRES'
important!...

I am authoring the screen presentation in FLASH / exporting out as QT Movie
and then BURNING to 'VIDEO' CD using Titanium Toast...all on MAC OSX. Which
bundles lots of interesting folders on the CD in the process!...

Q. what's the best way to set the 'AUTO play' - do I need to go thru a third
party DVD authoring software?

Currently it requires the push of the PLAY button to get thing rolling...

Can you help?.. Is this something you offer in a professional capacity?

Ta

Ad


---------------------------------

aspect ratio - stick to 4:3 to ensure maximum compatibility, decent DVD
players/tv's will 'widen' the ratio where needed, the important bit is
making your movie at 720x576.
Framerate - PAL systems run at 25fps, for best results stick to that,
you wont really see any benefits at higher frame rates, lower will
obviously be jerky.
Compression - as little as you can get away with! to be fair, you
shouldn't really need much more than 4000kbps for decent quality video,
animation will be lower still, probably around the 500kbps mark
dependent on the complexity of the stuff on screen.
Audio - I'm assuming you're including audio! depending on how long your
clip is, go for the highest you can. 192kbps is CD quality, 160kbps is
a good compromise and will probably sound OK on home TV's, 128kbps is
passable but will clip both treble and bass, which isnt good on a decent
hi-fi system at high volume, the audio ends up sounding muffled

Make sure the DVD playes the disc will be used on support SVCD or VCD if
you're only using CD's, otherwise they wont play your disc!

hope that helps!

Chris