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DVD
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Authoring
- A tutorial on how to create no-menu, looping DVDs with DVD Studio Pro. Some DVD players also have a loop setting.
- Bitvice is a standalone mpeg2 compressor which provides much higher quality encoding than apple compressor.
- Mpeg2s are generally bad at compressing flat colors and hard edges. Adding a blur or static to an animation w/ flat colors or hard edges, will help it compress well for DVD.
- There are disputes about the highest bitrate you can safely encode DVDs at, but it seems to be around 8mbps. Bit Budget is a software calculator that you can use to calculate bitrates for encoding in Compressor or DVD Studio Pro.
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Printing
- Mikey's Hookup in Brooklyn sells good spindles of print top DVDs. CDR DVDR Media is a good online shop for DVDRs.
- Cheap Canon printers can be unlocked to print on DVDs pretty easily - http://pixma.ulmb.com/
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Ripping
- Mac The Ripper
- Handbrake
- Mpeg Stream Ripper will rip Mpeg streams (from DVDs) to quicktime.
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Questions
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Online Video
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Flash video
- This FLV player is super customizable, has fullscreen built in, and is really easy to us.
- Quicktime movies can be converted to flv by importing them into a flash project.
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Quicktime video
- If a quicktime video isn't doing "Fast Start" correctly (playing while it's still loading online) try doing a save-as in Quicktime player, and using the new version instead (make sure you select "Save as a self-contained movie").
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Ripping Online Videos
- Tubesock is a standalone youtube downloading application.
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Questions
- How compatible is h.264 codec? Do most people have it on their computers by now?
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Presenting Video
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Cables
- This article breaks down and ranks the quality of different types of video connections.
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Equipment
- Costco generally offers 90 day returns.
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Projectors
- The Panasonic PT-AX200U is a good 720p projector.
- Projector Cenral is a great resource for info on projectors. Their Projector Calculator lets you figure out how big and bright an image you'll get from a given distance on a projector by projector basis.
