Anyone using multiple angles?

jimingo wrote on 6/5/2005, 11:00 AM

I am creating my first project in DVDA3 using multiple angles and they are messing up my video. Because of the multiple angles, DVDA completely screws up chapter placement. It puts chapters where there are not supposed to be and chapters that are supposed to be there are gone (when played back on a dvd player...the preview is fine). I'm using the same media and same burner that I have used since version one and I never had any problem. I'm sure that this is caused by using multiple angles in my video. I am using 3 additional tracks as multiple angles and am not filling up the entire tracks with video. In certain places when a multiple angle comes in, DVDA3 puts a chapter there (again, it's not there during preview). Is anyone else experiencing this problem? If so, do you know how to get around it. I e-mailed tech support about 6 days ago and they didn't get back to me yet. Oh yeah, when my video is played back using power dvd...power dvd crashes because it gets confused with the screwed up angles. I have 40 videos that I have to deliver to a first time client by tuesday. I don't want to give them videos that don't play right. Can anyone help?

-Thanks
-Jim

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ECB wrote on 6/11/2005, 9:50 AM

I would also like to say thank you to Sony for watching the forums so closely. I for one would like to see documentation that explains the 'true' requirements for mixed/multi angle and the main event and the relaxed requirements of DVDA3. On the timeline show the 'fixes' where DVDA3 extended the angle events to match lengths. I spent a lot time reading DVDSP manual and tutorials trying to figure out how to setupmulti/mixed angle ( hoping it was the same) in DVDA3. :)

As far as adding the MC encoder settings to DVDA3 I agree with Jim. From what I have read the stream requirements for multi/mixed angle require all GOPs closed and exactly the same. That in and of itself is a tough requirement that few encoders can meet. Procoder 2, one of my favorites, can't do it. Assume for a second that VBR did not cause GOP consistancy problems. If the GOPs have to be closed with a combined data rate at DVD max then there is nothing to be gained by VBR vs CBR. In summary, As long you as you have CBR set at the max allowed, quality at the max there are no other MC settings that is going to improve the quality of the image. That's my 2 cents. :)

Ed

JSWTS wrote on 6/11/2005, 10:13 AM

The DVDSP manual will give you pretty much the 'true requirements'. There are some differences in the max allowable between these two apps. The 'relaxed' requirements of DVD-A3 appear to be not that strict requirements aren't followed, but that if the user isn't following the dvd spec, DVD-A 'fixes it' for you. DVD-A's manual is fairly well written, but when it comes to this particular feature, there really isn't much info.

Jim