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adding CSS to a DVD and burning a DDP 2.0 onto DVDR for replication

Tue, 2007-06-19 18:17 — Jazz_Wig

I work at a replication plant and use your software to add CSS to DVD supplied by clients that cannot do it themselves.

I copy the supplied playable DVD to my hard drive, open with DVDafteredit ME 3.0.4 then go to
File Menu > Format/CopyCompare > Tape Image. I tick 'format for CSS' Box then Start button.

I then use toast to burn the DDP 2.0 image onto a DVD (UDFformat).

The problem is I have had a couple of these replicated recently and the discs don't play.

I've done this with DVD-5 and DVD-9 and I've had saccess with both but it seems unreliable.

Most recently I've had a DVD-5 fail.

I know that the disc was authored with Adobe Encore, could there be a problem with the master from Encore? The disc plays fine from the original master.

Is there something obvious I have missed?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Dave.

Mac OSX 10.4.8
DVDAfterEdit ME 3.0.4
Toast 8.0.1
4 x 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM

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Fri, 2007-06-22 02:21 — ianshepherd

Hi Dave, Glad you got it

Hi Dave,

Glad you got it sorted - this situation will be impossible with the new version, I believe, since there are no changes to the original files, only a new copy created when you choose to Export.

Ian

Thu, 2007-06-21 20:46 — Jazz_Wig

It Worked!

Thanks a lot Larry and Ian.

It was indeed the permissions being set to read only. Once I changed that and open and saved the DVD it worked perfectly.

It seems so obvious now I know. : )

Thanks again
Dave.

Wed, 2007-06-20 15:29 — Jazz_Wig

I'll try these now.

Thanks for the quick replies everyone!

Of all these suggestions I think it is most likely the permissions. I didn't relise that AfterEdit needed to change anything in the Master so I had ignored the message about changes not being writable.

I will have another go and let you know what happens. I will also get the Eclipse log file for you.

Thanks again
Dave.

Wed, 2007-06-20 11:14 — larryapple

Another couple of thoughts

Hi Dave,

Did the replicator send you a disc that won't play? Does it play in some players and not others? How about in the Apple Player? You might opening it in DVDAE and see if any errors are logged, or try playing it in Tracer to see if there is a navigation error.

When you write a DLT, do you do a compare back again to the original folder? That is the only way to make sure the tape is written correctly without possible hardware errors.

-Larry

Wed, 2007-06-20 02:20 — ianshepherd

A few possible issues

Hi Dave,

The procedure you describe will work fine on the vast majority of projects. However there are some small issues that might cause a problem. One that springs to mind is Permissions. When DVDAE opens a project for the first time, it scans for time-map errors and corrects them. These corrections need to be saved. However files copied from an exisiting master may be set as Read-Only, in which case the save will not work correctly, and this may cause problems. You should send Larry and Eclipse log as he suggests, but in the meantime please take a look at the Step by Step DLT Writing procedure too. Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Ian

Tue, 2007-06-19 22:30 — larryapple

Need replicator log or original DDP image

Hi Dave,

What you describe is done frequently by our customers without any problems. You mention "not reliable" but we need a specific exampel that we can analyze. Can you send us the replicator's Eclipse log file? Or mail or ship us a DDP image that fails? If so, we can easily figure out what is going wrong.

Regards,

Larry Applegate
6871 Marshall Rd.
PO Box 37
Coloma CA 95613

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