Hi,

I am new to DVD-It but tested it in the past, I decided to upgrade because I wantwed to have 16:9 motion menu's.

The problem I am having is that for a week now I am trying to get a working DVD from DVD-It. At first I had green black screens while simulating. This probably was a codec error but I am well aware of all the codecs on my machine. It seems like DVD-It isn;t able to use a standard ffdshow setup for playing MPeg-2 Files. I now installed K-Lite and this part at least seems to be fixed.

Anyways whenever DVD-It tries to transcode I get errors in the end. It says end of file and just quits. I searched the fora and beasically the only advice that's given is to be sure audio and video is the same length. This is not a problem for me.

Because I know my formats I try to encode files in TMPGEnc and just import them in DVD-It. It is just not working. I always get incompatibilty issues. I have used all the settings from the DVDit Pro HD supported video files pages on this site but it still says the (normal) PAL files are not compatible.

Can someone give me a template file or the exact settings that work for an ordinary PAL DVD. I don't want DVDIt to transcode because of the errors.

I am already 1 week over the deadline and it costed me too much time already. I am not amused and feel like I am ripped off. Basically I know my stuff and use ffmpeg on a command line basis so I have lenough experence on video encoding. If I even can't get DVD-It to work how could a basic professional work with it.

Hope someone can provide me with settings that will import the files to DVD-It without displaying that they are not compliant.

To sum up my settings. I only need to import a video file. Settings I use atm.

MPeg-2 Video ES (Video Only)
MP@ML
720x576
Display 16:9
25fps
CBR 8000 kb/s
VBV buffer 224
Videosystem PAL
DC Component Precision: 8 bit
Display mode: Progressive
Motion Search: Standard

I per Gop: 1
P per Gop: 5
B per Gop: 2
GOP Max.: 15

Sequence header for each GOP
Closed GOP
Detect Scene Change

Quantization:: Default

Hope someone can help getting the setting right!

Best regards,

Patrick

Tmpeg 4 Xpress elementary stream files work perfect here with DVDit Pro HD 6.4

be sure your files are interlaced and not progressive

here is how I would make the files
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/tmpeg4.html

Hi Anton,

thanks for your reply. This indeed was the culprit. Anyways, we are an animation studio and we only produce progressive material. But I understand that true PAL is interlaced. It's a shame taht DVD-It doesn't allow for progressive streams.

Thanks anyway, I hope I now will be able to produce my first DVD with this package!

Best regards,

Patrick
http://www.nmtrix.com

your source can be progressive, as long as you set Tmpeg to output interlaced, it should look fine

btw, Blu-ray works fine with progressive all the way

I do all my work interlaced as this looks smoother during pans, tilts and zooms