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CS2 DVD Authoring
I’ve never had troubles like this before, but then I’ve never used the DVD Layout feature in PPCS2 before. Any DVD I’ve created in PPCS2 I’ve always just exported directly from the timeline without taking the time to create a menu and make chapters. But now that I’ve gone to that extent on a project I get nothing but coasters when I burn the DVD.
The project is 01:18:45:00 in lenght so it just barely fits on a single layer DVD-R – but it does fit. I’ve tried various presets from the DVD Media Encoder pulldown menu – 7Mb CBR single pass, 4Mb VBR 2 pass, 4Mb CBR single pass – no matter what I chose the result is a coaster. But if I export directly to DVD it burns just fine (but I loss the menu and the like). This client want a menu…so in that I’m stuck.
Anyone have any clue what I might be doing wrong?
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7 Replies
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What are coasters? Can you explore the coaster?
My workflow does not involve Premiere or Encore doing the burning, primarily because I may need more copies later and partly due to what you are experiencing.
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Thanks for your reply Mike. By coaster I meant unusable DVD – but I gather you figured that out 🙂
I tried burning to a .iso file and used both MagicISO and Nero 7 to burn the image – neither worked. Windows Explorer can access these disks with some effort (in that I mean a much longer amount of time than normal).
I also tried your suggestion and burned to a folder – PowerDVD would play the entire video, but it would not access (or even recognize) the menu. So the actual video is being rendered/burned correctly, I’m thinking there’s something wrong with the menu but I’m a novice and DVD menu creation and don’t know where to start. When I burned the contents of the folder I had the same problem. If I just burn the .vob files the video plays fine. So there’s got to be something going on with the creation of the menu that’s freezing the DVDs when played.
This is becoming rather frustrating since I do have a somewhat older machine (P4 3.06HT w/2Gig of RAM) so encoding isn’t the fastest. I’ve tried every NTSC CBR encoding option listed in the media encoder both progressive and interlaced and although I do seem to have more success with that – those disks will play at random times – they stop at some point and lock up.
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It appears you’re Menu is not linking properly to the timeline. You would be much better off in Encore. You can see how things a connected better. Make sure you are using the correct marker types for menu, chapter, timeline.
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I know the markers are correct in the PPCS2 timeline. It appears that if I export the timeline to Encore, Encore will only recognize unnumbered markers and won’t recognize the PPCS2 DVD markers. Looks like I’ll be dropping unnumbered markers on top of the DVD markers and investing in Encore after Christmas.
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Seems like the DVD menu authoring in PPro2 was sort of an undeveloped “feature” meant for more users who didn’t need/want a lot of control – PPro CS3 dropped the whole “export to DVD” option and replaced it with “Export to Encore” which is now bundled with Premiere. I would definitely go for the upgrade and save yourself a headache.
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Went and got the the CS3 Creative Suite today – looks like I’ve got about a days worth of installing ahead of me with 11 DVDs in the box. And I seem to remember reading on the Adobe forums that uninstalling previous installations and then using their Adobe Clean wiping utility is advised before installing any CS3 suite. Nice way to waste a Saturday.
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Don’t mean to cross-post, but this is all continued here: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/145/862096
Basically the same problem.
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