LP to DVD-R?

[metalbob]

Has anyone actually done this? Say for example, you copied an LP to your harddrive at 24/96 and then either burned it on your PC or lined back out to a DVD burner, would this retain the frequency range of a DVD disc? Or just skipped the PC altogether and dumped vinyl right onto a free-standing DVD-R unit?

[Pinknik]

The stand alone units record in Dolby Digital, so there wouldn't be much point. DVD does support 24/96, but I'm not sure what software supports making your own. I don't think DVD Studio Pro (mac) does, but I haven't looked for that capability either. Our G4 doesn't have a 24/96 input board.

[jkerr]

I thought about the same thing. But I haven't seen any dvd-r software that'll do 24/96 (at least the non pro sw). Everything seems to be geared to making home videos.

Of course you could just record 24/96 wav files and just save them to dvd-r as a dvd-rom data disc. But you could only play back the files back thru the pc.

[RetroSmith]

>>>Geez, theres gotta be SOMETHING that will record the audio portion of a DVD-R in 24/96. I know there is software that you use with your own multitrack files that allows you to create a 5.1 DVD. Alot of bands are doing this now and using still shots and booking info for the video portion.

[Pinknik]

>>>Geez, theres gotta be SOMETHING that will record the audio portion of a DVD-R in 24/96.

Well, DVD Studio Pro doesn't MAKE the DD tracks or the PCM tracks, it just lets you import them into a DVD format. So, it's conceivable that if you had a 24/96 PCM file, you could also import that. I'm just not sure if you can.

[jkerr]

I got this from Apple's website:

DVD Studio Pro accepts audio streams in these formats: PCM audio (AIFF, SoundDesigner, or WAVE format, 16- or 24-bit resolution, 48 or 96 kHz sample rate, stereo or mono files); MPEG audio (MPEG-1, layer 2 audio, 48 kHz resolution, 32 to 384 Kbps data rate; MPEG-2 audio is not supported); Dolby AC-3 audio.

Apple DVD Studio Pro Knowledge Base (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34818&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkbase.info. apple.com%2Fcgi-bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSave KCToHomePage&searchMode=Expert&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com&showButton=false&randomValue=100&showSurvey=false&sessionID=anonymous|155407181)

Just so happens that a guy I work with has this setup at home. So we're going to try it out soon, maybe next week.

[Pinknik]

Hmmm, sounds interesting. I believe I can probably do a 24/48 DVD, which I think I'll look into.