Is MPEG-1 Audio Layer2 16 bit 48 kHz sound DVD ready?

I have never used that format, but this is what DVDSP User Manual says about (page 78):

MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio
For DVD products in PAL, MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio is compatible with all players. For NTSC markets (North America, Japan), most (but not all) DVD players support playback of MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio. If you create NTSC titles using MPEG audio, be aware that there may be problems in playback on some players.
If you want to ensure that your data-compressed audio is compatible with all players for NTSC, using the AC-3 format is recommended.

How are you capturing and editing from the camera?

I have the camera and if you capture and edit in Final Cut or iMovie you can export it for use in DVD SP. Usually the best way is to export it in an uncompressed format and compress to A.Pack/Dolby (the audio) and m2v (16:9 aspect which makes a 720 x 404 m2v for SD discs)

You can control how the audio is exported from iMovie or Final Cut but if you have not changed anything you should be good to go.

Little Endian and Big Endian is how the data is stored with the most signifcant byte on one end or the other (taken from Gulliver's Travels and how the egg should be cracked). For the most part you do not need to concern yourself with this (unless you like finding out about those things more) it is transperent in your workflow on the Mac using these apps.

Little Endian and Big Endian is ... taken from Gulliver's Travels and how the egg should be cracked.

Interesting, I'd never realised that ...

However, in a similar vein, booting a computer (with no OS loaded) being taken from Baron Munchaussen (sp?) is presumably quite well known.

There's hope for English Literature yet!

i just dont want my audio format changing ... i capture in final cut pro 5.1.

Final Cut - and, for that matter, most audio editors that I'm aware of - will only work with uncompressed sound. This is because it is expected that you will want to change the content in some way, whether by changing levels, mixing tracks together, or equalising/treating the source recordings. This is not possible with compressed sound: it is really just designed for playback, and uses quite serious acoustic masking techniques. The same does not apply to frame-based compressed video (like DV or HDV), where you can leave it as is while editing for a lot of the time.

Are you sure that your camera doesn't record uncompressed sound as well as the .mpeg1? If so, it would be natural for FCP to transfer this, and ignore the compressed version. Alternatively (if it doesn't) the sound is being converted to an uncompressed format on the fly so that you can edit it.

All you need to do is capture to, edit in, then export from Final Cut. It is all transparent and you will not need to worry about the settings.

In Final Cut Pro user easy setup for HDV 1080/60 (or 50), capture footage, edit then export. Do not worry about what the capture settings are in the Sony Manual.

There's hope for English Literature yet!

LOL, yeah there is.

I think the Big Endian/Little Endian is one of my favorites (always liked Swift), and is the only one I have committed to similar things.

Hmmm, computer geeks talking about literature, maybe there is hope for us still also 🙂