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Re: Two newbie puzzles: DVD extra, text

The procedure for creating a Hybrid disc that has additional files is
undocumented and a little tricky, the easiest way is to use Toast 5 and
just drag your VIDEO_TS and other files to the root level of the disc then
burn.

As for the scrolling text, it is a very difficult thing to get it to encode
smoothly because one of the things that MPEG has trouble with is sharp
edges, so there are a few tricks that you can do. First is to blur the text
slightly, I know it sounds weird, but it will help. Or add a drop shadow.

JD




Steven Gulie wrote:

> Greetings, and my apologies if these are FAQs. Two puzzles:
>
> First puzzle--DVD Extra. I want to create a DVD that plays on a standard
> player, with additional material for playback on computers--html, QT
> movies, QT itself, etc. I have a 733 G4, superdrive, and DV Studio. For
> the life of me, I cannot see how to add folders to what seems to be an
> ordinary IS0 9660 format disk before burning it, except the Web-link
> DVD@ccess installer. Am I missing a secret menu option, or do I need to
> go out and buy Toast Platinum? If I use Toast to burn the disk, how do I
> combine my folders with the output of DVSP prior to burning? Disk image?
> Help!
>
> Second puzzle--Text. I want to put a fair amount of scolling text on the
> MPEG2 part of the DVD. I know, reading text on TV is ooxymoronic, but I
> want to push it a little bit. I've seen pretty clean text on DVD, so I
> know it's possible. I suspect the cleanest approach would be to use QT
> text tracks, so the original rendering would be directly to MPEG2, but
> Apple's encoder wants a video track. I tried putting the text track over
> a black background (a one-color GIF), and the text renders cleanly, but
> the scrolling is jerky, at least in the preview. (It's not jerky in
> QickTime). If I render QT text to DV prior to MPEG2 encoding, it scrolls
> smoothly, but the text looks awful. Is there a way to get text tracks to
> scroll smoothly in MPEG2, or should I render to the animation codec or
> something prior to encoding? Can someone who's done this before point me
> in the right direction?
>
> Thanks, and apologies again for the newbie questions,
> -Steve
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