Will soon be working on a video for DVD that needs to go out in mulitple languages, I'm saying many prayers for what DVDA Ver 2 has to offer but that's another issue.
Big question is how to take what I produce back to tape so it can be reloaded later, say to add a new language or make changes.
The audio side of it I think I've got under control, there's very little lip sync stuff, mostly narration so timimng of the dialogue tracks isn't critical. I figure I can PTT just the video and music and render out each dialogue track as .WAV files and copy these to CD/DVD. Short pips at the start of each should enable them to be synced back on any system, question here though, is there an industry standard way of doing this?
Other option for audio tracks would be DAT with TC but those machines are way too expensive.
But here comes the tricky part. A lot of the information in these videos is in supers. Now I can create video tracks in Vegas, one for each language, very simple and neat, just turn on appropriate track and render out. Except how can I get this in a reusable way back to tape? I can render each track out as uncompressed AVI (to preserve the transparency) but firstly they'll be HUGE files so I will not be able to put them onto CD/DVD.
Is there ANY tape system that'll preserve transparency and if so can I go out to it from Vegas? I think some DigiBetacam systems have a second SDI input for alpha data, even if I could get my hands on one of these how does the alpha data go out to it?
I've already considered the obvious solution, record the super tracks with blue backgrounds as DV25 and then CK them out when they're reloaded. This should work OK but sounds a little clunky (and means NO blue text) so I'm hoping there's a better way or at least to learn how the big end of town handles this scenario.
Big question is how to take what I produce back to tape so it can be reloaded later, say to add a new language or make changes.
The audio side of it I think I've got under control, there's very little lip sync stuff, mostly narration so timimng of the dialogue tracks isn't critical. I figure I can PTT just the video and music and render out each dialogue track as .WAV files and copy these to CD/DVD. Short pips at the start of each should enable them to be synced back on any system, question here though, is there an industry standard way of doing this?
Other option for audio tracks would be DAT with TC but those machines are way too expensive.
But here comes the tricky part. A lot of the information in these videos is in supers. Now I can create video tracks in Vegas, one for each language, very simple and neat, just turn on appropriate track and render out. Except how can I get this in a reusable way back to tape? I can render each track out as uncompressed AVI (to preserve the transparency) but firstly they'll be HUGE files so I will not be able to put them onto CD/DVD.
Is there ANY tape system that'll preserve transparency and if so can I go out to it from Vegas? I think some DigiBetacam systems have a second SDI input for alpha data, even if I could get my hands on one of these how does the alpha data go out to it?
I've already considered the obvious solution, record the super tracks with blue backgrounds as DV25 and then CK them out when they're reloaded. This should work OK but sounds a little clunky (and means NO blue text) so I'm hoping there's a better way or at least to learn how the big end of town handles this scenario.