Playlist picture in Music DVD

[bdiament]

Hello,

 

I've been working on building a Music DVD with 24/96 audio tracks.

All the tunes are on a single playlist and I've added a picture to the playlist "button".

 

Once the DVD was "built", I did a "Save As Disc Image" so I could see the results prior to burning.

All went well but I thought the picture could be a little sharper, so I tried again.

The original picture was a jpeg of the album cover (I'll be pressing 16/44 standard CDs too).

I built the DVD again from scratch but the second time, I used the original .TIF file instead of the jpeg, hoping the much larger file would give a sharper result when I view the menu (or see the picture as a playlist item plays).

 

The result of "playing" the second Disc Image is that the first track plays with the screen completely black.

All other tracks in the playlist show the picture (though I don't think it is any sharper).

Strangely, when I click the "back" button on the transport while the second tune is playing, it won't go back to the first tune.

Also, when the Disc Image was completed using the TIF, the "bing" sound was different. Now it sounded like the muted sound one gets when clicking in the wrong place on a Mac. (Wish I could describe that better.)

 

I don't see anything in the "Getting Started" document regarding format for the playlist picture.

Is the .TIF file the reason I'm seeing black during the first tune? (When I used the jpeg, all was fine.)

 

I'm using version 7.1 on a PowerMac 1.25 GHz, 1 G RAM, OS X 10.4.9.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Barry

http://www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

http://www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[bdiament]

I don't know about the issue you're having with the first track...

 

Okay, I've redone the disk and the disk image.

The first tune now has the image (no more black screen).

What I did differently was I turned the .TIF image into a .JPG (no other change).

Then I used the JPG (instead of the TIF) as the "button" picture.

 

Seems like Toast doesn't like TIFs.

Thought I'd share this in case others encounter the same problem.

 

Barry

http://www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

http://www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[tsantee]

I don't know about the issue you're having with the first track. But I want you to look again at the first disc image you created. Since you are previewing this on the computer, set DVD Player's view mode to Normal. This shows the actual pixel size that will appear on a TV. DVD Player by default zooms the video to fit the screen which makes still images look very bad. What I'm saying is that is the original picture may look fine on a TV.

 

Given that the playlist picture is only a small part of a 720 x 480 frame, placing a high-resolution image in that space cannot get you a higher resolution picture on the TV. In any case it will be downsampled to the resolution that fits the box and then gets interlaced as well.

[bdiament]

I don't know about the issue you're having with the first track. But I want you to look again at the first disc image you created. Since you are previewing this on the computer, set DVD Player's view mode to Normal. This shows the actual pixel size that will appear on a TV. DVD Player by default zooms the video to fit the screen which makes still images look very bad. What I'm saying is that is the original picture may look fine on a TV.

 

Given that the playlist picture is only a small part of a 720 x 480 frame, placing a high-resolution image in that space cannot get you a higher resolution picture on the TV. In any case it will be downsampled to the resolution that fits the box and then gets interlaced as well.

 

Thanks tsantee.

I'll do this.

 

Sounds like the original jpeg will be fine.

It will be interesting to see how it looks in Normal mode.

 

Thanks again,

Barry

http://www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

http://www.barrydiamentaudio.com