When you record onto a DVD-RAM disc with a DVD video Recorder, a DVD video camera
DVD, which originally stood for digital video discs.
DVD Movie Factory, create interactive, professionally designed scene.
The first is a proposal for a new data type in audio streams.
quality and flexibility of this format for video.
DVD-Video player or DVD-ROM drive in a computer.
As you will see in this chapter, Microsoft is moving in a similar direction with Windows XP, but the picture for the PC and Windows world is more complicated.
The disc contents may be audio or video, but it is all just data to the computer.
Besides using Windows desktop recording or Easy CD Creator to write entire collections of data in one recording session, Roxio DirectCD offers an alternate approach that makes the CD act like a normal disk drive, so you can drag and drop individual files to write them to disc.
Windows XP provides the My Pictures folder for storing and organizing your photos.
fact_dvd100i
Gather your audience and show your original DVD creations.
The HP dvd-writer dvd100i easily stores your favorite original video, photo, and music files.* You can record up to 3 hours of video or save photos, graphics, music or data to a 4.7 GB DVD disc.
Transfer digital or analog video directly from your camcorder to a DVD disc (requires video capture capability on PC).
You can record up to 80 minutes of original music or store up to 700 MB of photos or data on a single CD.
Create custom DVDs or CDs with the DVD+RW and CD-RW drive.
Create data DVDs that you can share with most DVD-ROM drives.
dvd_players
DVD players, sound, Dolby Digitalready, decoder, DTS, video, channels.
As the fastest growing consumer electronics product in history, DVD players offer picture quality that clearly surpasses the VCR.
Surround sound refers to the ability of your DVD player to play theater-quality sound through your home entertainment system.
Digital audio outputs allow you to send surround sound signals from the DVD player to either an external decoder or an audio receiver.
A decoder processes the six digital channels of discrete surround sound into six channels of analog sound for output to a Dolby Digitalready receiver (with six inputs, one for each channel of sound) and then on to the speakers.
1999JAN01_ID_DSP_MSD_EMS_TAhttp://www.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/1999JAN/1999JAN01_ID_DSP_MSD_EMS_TA.PDF
ILVU, angle, track buffer, DSI, DVD, decoder, drives.
These advanced designs demand tight and efficient interaction among the DVD local interface drive, decoding circuitry, and the system control software.
Trick plays provide the hallmark of an advanced DVD player.
Groupings include parental management blocks, angle blocks for multiple camera angles, interleaved blocks for seamless branching, etc. Navigation data structure is overlaid on the physical data structure.
The angle block is constructed from a multiplex of VOBUs called interleaved VOBUs (ILVU).
Each ILVU for a different angle number is simultaneous in time.
You may send your comments on this article to Alain Bismuth through e-mail at bismuth@lsil.com or Gordon Ng at ng@lsil.com, fax: 1-408-9544451.
read_me_firsthttp://www.macintoshdigitalhub.com/PDF/read_me_first.pdf
DVD, segment, spreads, Mac, digital hub, video, jump.
Video lets you see for yourself, and video on a DVD lets you watch in any order you want.
If you're new to the digital hub, you might want to break open a Mountain Dew and watch the DVD from start to finish.
The book and the DVD assume you're using Mac OS X, although much of the iTunes and iMovie material also applies to the Mac OS 9 versions of these programs.
Each section is a series of two-page spreads, and each spread is a selfcontained reference that covers one topic.
To watch a segment, choose its menu item.
ImpressionDVD-ProDatasheethttp://www.pinnaclesys.com/dotMedia/ImpressionDVDPro/doc/ImpressionDVD-ProDatasheet.pdf
DVD, Pinnacle, video, audio, Impression DVD-Pro, menus, multiple.
The convenience, quality and flexibility of this format allows video editors to present their work in a number of languages, from a variety of angles, and with a choice of soundtracks, all on a single disc.
Unfortunately, this power was often out of reach, as DVD authoring systems were overly complex and prohibitively expensive.
Pinnacle Systems is now delivering DVD creation to the desktop with the introduction of an affordable, yet full featured, professional DVD and CD authoring system: Pinnacle Impression DVD-Pro.
Pinnacle Impression DVD-Pro is a truly professional DVD authoring system that fully supports Multiple Video Angles, up to 32 separate Subtitle Tracks and up to eight Independent Audio Streams for multiple language or soundtrack support.
DVDWSRelease
DVD, Ulead, DVD Workshop, video, Ulead Systems, DVD authoring, capture.
With Ulead DVD Workshop, Ulead addresses the new needs of a higher level videographer looking to distribute their work on DVD," said Lewis Liaw, senior vice president at Ulead Systems, Inc. "DVD Workshop allows content creators to author DVD menus that match their vision without requiring them to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars."
Authors can create dynamic, Hollywood-style DVDs with the program's precise control of all creative elements that a DVD menu may command such as customizable video scene buttons and specific selection highlight colors and actions.
Ulead's MPEG-Direct capture saves conversion time and hard disc space by capturing video directly to the MPEG format using FireWire (IEEE 1394) and analog capture boards.
whatdvd
DVD, disc, drives, DVD-ROM drives, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, audio.
Digital Versatile Disc -- DVD is a technology that currently stores more than 7 Times the information of today CD-ROM technology.
For example a DVD-5 Disc can hold up to 133 minutes of Digital audio and video on a single side, with additional information such as multiple language tracks and multiple subtitle tracks.
DVD-ROM drives have a seek time of 150-200ms, access time of 200-250ms, and data transfer rate of 1.2mb/s with burst transfer rates of up to 12mb/s or higher.
DVD-RAM is the first level to make DVD media rewritable.
If you have purchased you DVD movie in the U.S then you will not be able to use it on a DVD-ROM drive that you purchased in Europe.
L19949A_DVDStudioPro_DS
DVD, DVD Studio Pro, video, format, menus, Apple, audio.
You're editing digitally with professional software packages such as Final Cut Pro.
With DVD Studio Pro you can author your own DVD-Video discs---so your work is digital from start to finish.
Best of all, because it's from Apple, it's designed for creative professionals, not DVD technicians.
Taking over where video editing applications such as Final Cut Pro leave off, DVD Studio Pro handles the MPEG encoding, menu creation, asset organization, linking, and output formatting that are required to produce DVD-Video discs.
It uses QuickTime technology to ensure the highest quality and easy integration with the editing and special effects software you already use.
dvd_background_info02
recording, DVD, format, media, DVD-RAM, video, storage capacity.
The development of the DVD is reminiscent of the history of video recorders and tapes: The technology holds a wide variety of possibilities but the different formats are confusing for the consumer.
Compared to the existing media, the DVD offers the highest storage capacity: One-side recordable DVDs hold 4.7 GB or the equivalent content of about seven CDs respectively.
If written on both sides a DVD can even store up to 9.4 GB -- but this is only possible with a DVD-RAM.
All three use their own recording technology and are only marginally compatible with each other so that each format requires a specific DVD blank.
Mac1750brhttp://www.adstech.com/products/macav1750/pdf/Mac1750br.pdf
DVD, video, capture, Instant DVD, disk, Mac, MPEG-2.
Instant DVD for Mac is a fun, fast and easy way to get DVD and VCD video into your Macintosh so you can archive your home movies to disk or record back to VCR.
Instant DVD for Mac is an external device that connects to your USB port and enables the capture of video in the proper compression format to create a Video CD or DVD disk.
All the video compression takes place in the Instant DVD device so when the video comes through the USB port it is already compressed in the format you desire such as MPEG-1 for VCD (Video on CD) or MPEG-2 for DVD (Digital Versatile Disc).
merlindvd
DVD, Merlin, DVD mastering, images, DVD mastering station, window, folders.
The Merlin DVD subsystem is comprised of a 100 or 700 disk DVD jukebox attached to a Merlin server and a DVD mastering station connected to Merlin Server via a dedicated Ethernet network connection which is completely separate from your in-house network.
Before starting the DVD mastering process, you must first ensure that your DVD mastering station's buffer drive is mounted as a network drive and is currently using the drive letter specified in Merlin Console's Preference CD Drives utility.
Once a DVD has been burned and confirmed useable, the images are deleted from Merlin and the database is updated to reflect the change in location of the high resolution images.
Select and delete the three folders in the Dvdimage window labeled Blob, Graphics and IPTC by using the delete key or selecting the menu items File>Delete.
DVDRWVideo
recording, video, disc, compatibility, DVD, DVD-Video, format.
Convergence is a key concept in the prevailing trend of overlapping in Consumer Electronics and PC applications.The discs must be able to be used in both CE and PC equipment.Therefore it is important that the level of performance is equally high for the very diverse requirements of video recording -- like large file sizes and very demanding real-time requirements -- and data storage where smaller files and data integrity are the main features.
To achieve compatibility, it is necessary to have physical compatibility (i.e. the capability of existing DVD drives to read the information on the disc) as well as logical compatibility for video (i.e. the capability to interpret the information from the disc in order to reproduce the original video content).
dvd_primer
DVD, video, audio, Age, Publishing, disc, formats.
After several years of intense development and cross-industry cooperation among consumer electronics companies, computer manufacturers, and the entertainment industry, the DVD format has arrived --- and with it a new era of consumer entertainment.
For the first time, highquality digital video as well as surround sound audio can be delivered to the consumer on a single interactive compact disc.
To deliver high-quality still images, as well as enable the menus that are required to navigate through interactive elements, the DVD specification allows single frames of video to be encoded in full-color and full-resolution.
To enable the multi-language subtitling capabilities required by the entertainment industry, the DVD specification includes subpicture overlays -- images which are generated by the DVD player on playback and can be keyed over background video or still images.
DVDStudioPro_DS-a2
DVD, DVD Studio Pro, video, format, menus, Apple, QuickTime.
You're editing digitally with professional software packages such as Final Cut Pro.
With DVD Studio Pro you can author your own DVD-Video discs---so your work is digital from start to finish.
Best of all, because it's from Apple, it's designed for creative professionals, not DVD technicians.
Taking over where video editing applications such as Final Cut Pro leave off, DVD Studio Pro handles the MPEG encoding, menu creation, asset organization, linking, and output formatting that are required to produce DVD-Video discs.
It uses QuickTime technology to ensure the highest quality and easy integration with the editing and special effects software you already use.
