MAIN CONCEPT BUG???

Jamz wrote on 11/20/2001, 7:43 PM

Is there a bug in the main concept template? When rendering separate streams, I get errors when bringing the mpeg stream into sonic's Reel DVD. It states that Reel DVD accepts on 4:3 or 16:9 & changes my settings in reel dvd to pal. I rendered the same clip in premiere with the Ligos plugin using the DVD assets template with no problem. Why doesn't Main concept accept so-called DVD compliant files???

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SonySDB wrote on 11/21/2001, 12:06 PM

I checked out Sonic Solutions online knowledge base and the specific problem you are experiencing is described on their website. The question and their response are below...

Q. I encoded my video as mpeg 4:3 NTSC but I get "Error ReelDVD only supports 4:3 or 16:9 video." and a small message window anounces: The Resolution Is Changed To PAL. What's going on here, I know it is 4:3 NTSC.

This is the typical response of ReelDVD when you try to force feed it "Program Streams". You must create "Elementary Streams" from your encode process. A Program Stream has the video and audio already multiplexed together, an Elementary Stream has two seperate files, one for video and one for audio. This is the only option for bringing your asset files into
ReelDVD.
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The MainConcept MPEG encoder only creates "Program Streams" (.mpg). A "Program Stream" contains timing information for the video and audio streams including synchronization. (Video elementary streams usually end with the extension .m2v.)

Many other DVD authoring software including Sonic's DVDit! accept "Program Streams". It's too bad that ReelDVD doesn't.

You can generate the audio and video elementary streams that you need for ReelDVD by demuxing an MPEG created with the MainConcept MPEG plug-in. (There are tools available on the Internet that can accomplish this task like bbDMux included bbTools19.)

Jamz wrote on 11/21/2001, 12:26 PM

Thanks for the info. I thought that Main concept wasn't giving me true seperate audio & video files. That's too bad because from my experience in using Reel DVD & DVD-It, Reel DVD is much better than DVD-It as far as compatibility with set top DVD players. One example was using a Mitsui DVD-R compared to a Pioneer DVD-R in a Sony DVD player. When the Mitsui was authored in DVD-It, it took nearly 20 seconds to load in a player but when authored with Reel DVD, it loaded instantly. The Pioneer loaded fine with both software. Strange???