Duplication master from DVD-9's
I've been asked to provide new masters for a job we did a couple of years ago, and I want to make sure my workflow is going to work.
The material is 25 hours of video spread over 5 DVD9s. The client wants to send a set of DVD-Rs without copy protection to India to be used as source for duplication.
There are a couple of issues -
1. I may not have all the source media still on the system. The client has the original DLTs, and I may still have the builds around, but this project was so bulky, I probably did not keep the encodes, or the FCP capture scratch to re-encode from. In the event that I can't get the encodes back easily, I was considering ripping the finished DVDs with Mac the Ripper.
2. These are DVD9s. If I burn a dual-layer disc with my super drive, I have to use DVD+R and not -R, correct? Also, I would expect DVDSP to maintain the position of my layer breaks if I burn a DL disc directly form the project, but to rip & burn the VIDEO_TS with Toast may not maintain the layer breaks properly, or does it? How about if I use "format" in DVDSP and point it at the rippped VIDEO_TS, or the build folder from the original project? I have a couple of DVD+R DVD9s I have burned with Toast, and they seem to play through ok on the one player I have that will play DVD+Rs, but I can't tell if the layer break is showing up in the same spot.
So my questions are:
1. Can a dual-layer DVD+R actually be used as a valid format for a duplication source, aside from the other possibility for disc errors, lost data, read errors, etc.
2. If I let Toast or DVDSP put an arbitrary layer break in a disc burned form a ripped VIDEO_TS, could the layer break render the disc unplayable, or do I only run the risk of the break pausing the playback at a less-than-optimum point in the video?
In the past I have tried to investigate the possibility of having DLTs duplicated (to new DLTs), and found no replicator or authoring house that was able to duplicate the DLT. Also, they have specifically requested plain-vanilla burned DVD Rs without CGMS, CSS, or Macrovision as a source for duplication, rather than replication, because I guess they don't have DLTs in India, or so I am told.
The difference between these workflows would be a day to rip and probably a couple weeks to recapture, re-encode, and rebuild the project, and that's even if a dual-layer DVD+R will even work as a duplicaiton source.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions -
Max Average
The material is 25 hours of video spread over 5 DVD9s. The client wants to send a set of DVD-Rs without copy protection to India to be used as source for duplication.
There are a couple of issues -
1. I may not have all the source media still on the system. The client has the original DLTs, and I may still have the builds around, but this project was so bulky, I probably did not keep the encodes, or the FCP capture scratch to re-encode from. In the event that I can't get the encodes back easily, I was considering ripping the finished DVDs with Mac the Ripper.
2. These are DVD9s. If I burn a dual-layer disc with my super drive, I have to use DVD+R and not -R, correct? Also, I would expect DVDSP to maintain the position of my layer breaks if I burn a DL disc directly form the project, but to rip & burn the VIDEO_TS with Toast may not maintain the layer breaks properly, or does it? How about if I use "format" in DVDSP and point it at the rippped VIDEO_TS, or the build folder from the original project? I have a couple of DVD+R DVD9s I have burned with Toast, and they seem to play through ok on the one player I have that will play DVD+Rs, but I can't tell if the layer break is showing up in the same spot.
So my questions are:
1. Can a dual-layer DVD+R actually be used as a valid format for a duplication source, aside from the other possibility for disc errors, lost data, read errors, etc.
2. If I let Toast or DVDSP put an arbitrary layer break in a disc burned form a ripped VIDEO_TS, could the layer break render the disc unplayable, or do I only run the risk of the break pausing the playback at a less-than-optimum point in the video?
In the past I have tried to investigate the possibility of having DLTs duplicated (to new DLTs), and found no replicator or authoring house that was able to duplicate the DLT. Also, they have specifically requested plain-vanilla burned DVD Rs without CGMS, CSS, or Macrovision as a source for duplication, rather than replication, because I guess they don't have DLTs in India, or so I am told.
The difference between these workflows would be a day to rip and probably a couple weeks to recapture, re-encode, and rebuild the project, and that's even if a dual-layer DVD+R will even work as a duplicaiton source.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions -
Max Average
Mac Pro 2.66, Mac OS X (10.4.8), AJA IO, Sony HDV, DV, Panasonic DV50
