Click 2 Play

Here are two capture settings which work with the Click edit suite.

The Capture Preset for Uncompressed Video is

• TARGA Cine PAL YUV-Embedded Audio-Pro Digital

Recently I have been trying the DV capture preset which as been great for allowing me to work on large projects without running out of disk space.

• DV-PAL 48 khz

In order to allow you to fit more video on to a DVD use A-Pack to re-encode the audio to AC3 format. This reduces the file size for audio and means you can fit more video on to the disc.

Settings to Use for Encoding AC3 Files with A-Pack

1. Audio Coding Mode : 2/0 (L.R)
2. Data Rate : 192 kps
3. Dialog Normalization : -31 dBFS

1. Now click on the preprocessing tab and set the compressions setting to ‘NONE’.
2. Click Encode and choose a file name and location.

The final step is to locate your aiff audio file and drag and drop it into the left input channel if it is a stereo file, you will be prompted to make it the LEFT Channel and the same happens when you drag the same file to the right input channel, except this time make it the RIGHT Channel.

The AC3 file is approxinately 8 times smaller than the aiff file.

I recently found this software called Squared 5 It allows you to open up a DVD and extract the video and audio files from it. You have several file format choices and I have learned the following :-

On our Apple Mac computer : DVD Studio Pro ( Version 3 ) recognises

• Demuxed Headed M2v and Aiff
• Demuxed MC2 and Aiff

Final Cut Pro ( Version 4.5HD ) recognises the following formats on the timeline once they have been rendered.

• Convert to MPEG
• Convert to MPEG with Audio
• Demuxed Headed MC2
• Demuxed MC2 and Aiff 
• Export to Quicktime using FCP uncompressed codec
• Export to Quicktime using the cinewave codec created a wavy distorted video image in Final Cut Pro.

 Final Cut Pro had problems with

• Demuxed Unscaled crashed Final Cut Pro when it was dragged on to the timeline.
• Export to Quicktime using the cinewave codec created a wavy distorted video image.

On my PC laptop : Pinnacle Studio ( Version 10.5 ) the following options worked.

• Convert to MPEG
• Convert to MPEEG with Audio

 Pinnacle Studio didn’t recognise aiff files.