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In Reply to: Are there affordable tools to make DVD Audio disks at home? posted by JKelly on March 21, 2002 at 18:06:27:
At the present time DVD-A authoring is only available through a couple of systems, Sonic Solutions, and Sadie. Both systems run about £25,000 I believe. The problem would seem to be, with no widespread take-up by the general public they are not likely to succeed in making it a viable product. From a record companies view, they want to sell the most items, at the least cost to themselves, at the maximum potential margin. It is possible to burn a DVD video with AC3 or DTS audio tracks, both of which offer excellent sound in Surround formats, with possibly just a still or a title screen. Probably something like Apple Studio DVD pro running on the mac would be your cheapest option at around £3,500, but I'm not sure that it supports Surround encoding. I would check out the Apple website.Regards
Roland
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I'd definately add a vote for DTS as an alternative since DVD-A is not really a domestically-accessible encoding format. -Since we have a lot of Pro-Tools systems, the tool which I am considering is from "Kind Of Loud". -They make a pro-tools plugin which encodes DTS onto DVD and CD streams.-If you don't already have DTS, go give it a good listen. -I wonder if DVD-A will really sell to a public that happily believes that new speaker cables will make an MP3 sound good!
By the way, Minnetonka makes a DTS encoder also. -It's a stand-alone piece of software if I recall correctly, and can encode three WAV pairs into a DTS-encoded single WAV pair.
Keith
I agree with keith here. I keep meaning to investigate AC3 on CD, to see if DVD player will detect and play it, (I prefer AC3 to DTS). But the chance of getting the public to buy into DVD-A or SACD is really unlikely, probably will go the same way as L-Cassette and Videodisc players. If I can't get the AC3 to work, (that's on its own, can always make it work using slide show in DVD spec) I'm going to get myself the Minetoka, or kind of loud DTS, building up an archive already of surround that I want to store for myself.regards
Roland
I know that encoding into DTS you have the option of generating a file at either 44.1kHz, (for printing to CD) or 48kHz (for printing to DVD). If you're going to record AC3 onto CD, bear in mind that the poor CD player only knows one sample rate! ;-)I haven't looked sufficiently into the AC3 stuff to know if you can generate 44.1kHz, or only 48kHz files... -Would Anyone know the answer to that one? -Perhaps this is too far down the list now... -It might be a good topic for a fresh post!
Keith.
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