Publishing details

Widetrack wrote on 10/20/2008, 8:39 AM
I'm getting ready to burn a master on a commercial disc, and a wondering about some final details.

First, the video was edited in Vegas as a NTSC Widescreen and always appeared that way in the Vegas preview window, and, I think, in the Architect preview. But today, Architect is showing the video letterboxed with black bars above and below, in a 4:3 window, even though the DVDA project properties is set to NTSC widescreen. What's giong on?

Also, does anyone have any suggestions regarding:

Regions (The program's in English, but obviously I'll sell it to anyone, anywhere. What's the way to go here?)

Copy protection (Architect offers CGMS, CSS and Macrovision, Do any of them work? Is one better than the others?)

Thanks.


Comments

bStro wrote on 10/20/2008, 9:50 AM
Letterboxing: Options > Preferences > Preview tab. Change aspect ration from 4:3 to 16:9. Does that take care of it?

Region: Completely up to you, isn't it? If you want it to be usable by people in all regions, then make it Region Free / Region 0. You only need to set a region if you want to limit who can view this.

Copy protection: All DVD Architect does is add a flag that says "use this kind of protection." The company you send the master to does the actual copy protection, so how good it is will depend on them. Personally, I think copy protection is pointless since it's so easy to bypass. But I suppose most disc publishers want to at least show that they're making an attempt. :) Far as I can tell, it really doesn't matter which one you use.

Rob
Former user wrote on 10/20/2008, 10:38 AM
DVDA does not provide the copy protection. It only sets a flag for the duplicater. And copy protection is quite expensive. Make sure you want to pay for it before you set the flag.

Leave it region free.

Dave T2
Widetrack wrote on 10/21/2008, 8:03 AM
Re: DVDA preview:

Go figure. this morning the project opened showing a widescreen preview.

Love it when software settings change overnight while the computer is off.

Re Copy protection and regions: Thank you both for confirming my vague suspicions. I'll see what copy protection costs