Aspect Ratio?

[Joe Bowden]

If you have any playlists, they will show up with a green icon (I think) in the Project panel. Select it, then look at the playlist properties, which will show what is in the playlist.

If there are no playlists, try deleting the timeline, then select the video asset and create a new timeline. Does that error when you try to build?

[Celene Haberkost]

Don’t have any playlists, but found some good news and bad news.

I deleted “outtakes” and tried to build again. It gave me the same exact error as it was planning the files for the movie, but this time, it’s on the timeline called “rehearsal”. This is the same cyclic effect I was getting on my “internal error” before. If I delete “rehearsal” and rebuild it, it will happen on the next timeline, and then the next, and then circle back to “outtakes” again.

So the good news is it thinks all the timelines have improper aspect ratios, but that’s the bad news too, probably.

Does this help any, or make the diagnosis worse? 🙂

[Joe Bowden]

It doesn’t help much in troubleshooting.

If you delete all the timelines, and then re-create them, does it still error?

[Celene Haberkost]

I spent some time deleting the timelines (I had quite a few), and I recreated them, all except for ‘outtakes’ and ‘rehearsal’, which I recreated before. (I redid ‘Outtakes’ first, then got the error on ‘rehearsal’, then recreated ‘rehearsal’.)

After trying to build it again, it now has circled back to ‘outtakes’, saying it still has an aspect ratio problem. I think it tries to build the oldest timeline first, and continues from there.

Do you have anything else that I can try?

Thanks again for all your help!

Celene

[Heath Firestone]

I suspect the error is codec related. The reason I was asking you what codec you were using, was so that I could determine this. Instead, let’s define your process.

Are your projects in Premiere Pro DV projects?

Are you exporting to Media Encoder using the DVD settings, and bringing those files in to Encore?

If so, can you instead, export your Premiere timeline to a DV file, the import that into Encore, and choose the render options there. The purpose of testing this, is to bypass the potential of issues brought into the mix by encoding with Premiere (this isn’t usually a problem, but it is a debugging test).

I’ll have more suggestions once you try this. You dan’t ahve to do it with all files, just try it with the first file it usually errors out on, and see if you get any further.

Thanks,

Heath

[Celene Haberkost]

Hi Heath! Sorry it took me so long to get back:

Are your projects in Premiere Pro DV projects?
-Yes, they are.

Are you exporting to Media Encoder using the DVD settings, and bringing those files in to Encore?
– I exported them all as MPEG2’s with .m2v video and .wav audio.

If so, can you instead, export your Premiere timeline to a DV file, the import that into Encore, and choose the render options there.
– Exported “Outtakes” as an AVI file, put it into the timeline instead, but still got the same “aspect ratio” error.

Is there anything else you can think of that I can try?

Thanks for all your help!

[Unai Guerra]

I had the same problem and I solved it applying to the video asset the “Revert to Original” instruction. Surprisingly it worked and I built the DVD correctly. I noticed that the video asset was reinterpreted as 1.066 aspect ratio video, been originally a 16:9 clip (1.422), but when putted in a 16:9 timeline it was shown in its correct pixel proportion.

All the pixel aspect ratios mentioned above were used in a PAL project.

Hope It´ll be of any help.