If I burn an MPEG video on DVD Flick, will Mac users (as well as PC users) be able to view it, complete with sound? I'm going a little bit crazy trying to make a brief audio slideshow of an artist's work that can be sent to a variety of places whose platforms I do not know! Thanks for any help you can give me.
If you make a standard dvd you will be able to watch it on anything which plays standard dvd's.. If what you make works on a standalone domestic dvd player it will work on anything.. that's why dvd is a "standard".. (unless it's "broken by design" to attempt to stop copying.. like the big studio output) end of discussion. Use a -R disk for maximum compatibility with different (and unknown) players.
Thanks for your response, Paula. That's what I thought until I discovered that the version which worked on our TV/DVD player wouldn't play the sound track on my laptop although the preview & video file did. Downloading VLC last night solved that problem for me, but I can't really assume that everyone I might send it to has VLC, and also our Library's (not young) Mac didn't recognize the video at all. Since commercial DVD's work fine on my laptop, I don't understand why I had to download a special program to hear the sound on this one, and I'm concerned that people receiving the video won't bother. I used Corel VideoStudio X3 to make the video (an audio slideshow, actually), and I'm burning it onto DVD-R disks. Burning with either the MovieFactory SE that comes with ViudeoStudio or Honestech Fireman (whose tech person - with appropriate honesty - said he didn't know about Macs) produced the same problems. I hoped that DVD Flick might at least be more Mac friendly.
what track did you put the audio on? . there is more than 1 audio track on a dvd.. have a look with vlc.. then compare that to your dvd player setting or other player setting.. flick has a mac port at least.. check the audio stream.. if you go to vlc when playing the disk it's under the "audio" tab
Thanks Paula. This has opened a new realm of mystery to me which I will contemplate... The original video project I made with VideoStudio X3 had a narration track made up of many clips, and a continuous musical background track which dwindled whenever the voice was speaking. I thought by the time the project was rendered into an MPEG2 file they were all combined somehow. According to Flick my audio is on Track 1. What do you mean "flick has a mac port at least"? sigh. pause for study.
This is just to let you know that with my Flick-burned DVD, I can now watch the video on PC, Mac or DVD player, just as you said I should be able to. I wish the quality of the end result weren't so dependent on the settings and/or nature of the machinery, but I guess there's not much I can do about that. You've been a great help. Thanks again, Paula!
