Widescreen & Burning Questions (newbie)

Dabitz · Post by **Dabitz** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:37 am

Hi everyone, I have been exploring your product for quite some time and I am almost ready to click that buy now button. However, I do have a few questions, I will really appreciate your advice.

1. Is creating a disc time a process that always takes over 3 hrs? I have a fast PC with 2 harddrives, 1GB, etc. But creating a CD is an overnight project. Using Dolby Digital 5.1
2. My first project I had no trouble recording in widescreen and my DVD would play as such. However, now I am seeing widescreen videos from my SONY handycam, but they are been recorded in 4:3. I did checked under project properties 16:9 and while working on the project it is displayed as widescreen. When I create the DVD, it shows widescreen but within a 4:3 screen (not real widescreen). Is this setting changed somewhere else as well?
3. Can you just give me a simple explanation of what ripple editing does? I am confused with this feature.

I hope you can help me out. Happy 4th of July to those in the US, and greetings to everyone else.

Dave

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:11 am

Dabitz wrote:Hi everyone, I have been exploring your product for quite some time and I am almost ready to click that buy now button. However, I do have a few questions, I will really appreciate your advice.

We are users look yourself. We are not Ulead employees.

Dabitz wrote:1. Is creating a disc time a process that always takes over 3 hrs? I have a fast PC with 2 harddrives, 1GB, etc. But creating a CD is an overnight project. Using Dolby Digital 5.1

Using Dolby will make litle or no difference to the time involved. The time is taken up by the video not the sound of your clips. Lets take a simplistic view. If you connected your camcorder to the computer with an IEEE1394 firewire/i-Link cable then you will have captured your clips in DV (avi) format which uses up 13GB of hard drive space per hour.

To convert that into a standard DVD that will play in a standalone DVD player, the clip must be converted into another format known as MPEG2. Dependant upon the chosen settings your 1 hour video will now fit on a standard 4.3GB DVD disk. without going into too much technical details and keeping it simple, image that your original DV (avi) clip is like thousands of windows Bitmap images (BMP) and each one has to be converted into a smaller file size like a JPG image. using the PAL television system as an example, thats 25 frames per second comprising of 2 fields (upper and lower). 25 x 2 = 50. 50 x 60 = 3000 images per minute.
multiply by 60 minutes so 1 hour = 180,000 images that all have to be converted.

Now we haven't even taken into account any other changes that have been made such as the insertion of transitions, titles, overlays, sound effects. Even the fastest computers will take between a hour and half to 3 hours to do this work. We know nothing about your computer system because you have yet to complete your system details on your profile page

Dabitz wrote:2. My first project I had no trouble recording in widescreen and my DVD would play as such. However, now I am seeing widescreen videos from my SONY handycam, but they are been recorded in 4:3. I did checked under project properties 16:9 and while working on the project it is displayed as widescreen. When I create the DVD, it shows widescreen but within a 4:3 screen (not real widescreen). Is this setting changed somewhere else as well?

Please view the tutorial Authoring a DVD

Dabitz wrote:3. Can you just give me a simple explanation of what ripple editing does? I am confused with this feature.

You have several tracks. These comprise of video tracks and audio tracks. Cut something out from one of these tracks (such as TV adverts) now do you want the gap to close to fill the hole or not? - thats ripple editing in a nutshell.