Testing

I finished my DVD and have been testing ti out. I had a few initial problems with extra buttons I had created out of nowhere so when I used the mouse select a button to take me to another menu, it was taking me completely the wrong menu. This soon got sorted after a while searching through different menus and backgrounds. I managed to get it looking exactly the way I want it.

I had to add the bars and tones to our estings entry and this was a very confusing process for me. I couldnt quite grasp the concept of why we needed to use it and all about the timecodes. All I knew was that we had been given this file that needed to start at some random timecode, play for so many seconds then it eventually played our animation. I managed to do it with some help and I think I did it correctly as my animation started to play at exactly 10:00:00. However, if someone asked me to do it again on my own, I wouldnt have a clue what to do.

After this was accomplished, I burnt it onto a DVD but again the rendering was playing up. After a bit of searching and digging into the settings, I realised that the file was almost  1gb which is not surprising that it kept skipping. I used compressor to get it down to about 10mb without losing quality or resolution and that meant that the estings entry for broadcast played fine.

Lastly, I had to burn my DVD with my showreel on. This was pretty easy as you just click the burn button in DVD studio and it tells you if anything is wrong which it didnt seem to be. Fifteen minutes later a DVD popped out of my drive telling me it was done. I had already tested it using simulations but I wanted to test it one last time to make sure. I put it back into my computer and tested it for a final time which seemed to go well.