easiest way to make a simple dvd menu on pp2?

[Mike Velte]

With Encore you can do most anything possible with menus, but Premiere 2 gives you a main menu and a scene menu.
The basic workflow is to put DVD scene markers in the timeline and then open the DVD layout window, choose a template and tweek things and burn.

[Vin2000]

Hey Mike,

Thanks for the info. I’m buying Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a book. Looks like i’ll just learn that. The templates PP2 provides arn’t really what I’m looking for.

That being said, how would I export the project to encore? Do i have to encode the entire sequence as a movie? or can I open a pp2 project on encore?

Thanks in advance,

Vin.

[Mike Velte]

You will need to encode your sequence as “Mpeg 2 DVD” format using the Adobe Media Encoder. This will create a 2 elementary streams, one video and one audio. Import these into Encore.

[Vin2000]

hey mike,

i did the following: encode mpeg2-dvd on adobe media encode and got both audio and video files.

however, when i burnt it to dvd, it stutters like crazy on the television but plays fine on the laptop. not just any television with a dvd player, all of them.

should i just encode it as MPEG2 instead of MPEG2-DVD ??? with the ntsc mpeg-2 generic preset?

thanks in advance,

mike

[Vin2000]

hi mike,

i had to put this problem on hold for a while to take care of some other stuff and now that i have some free time to take care of this problem, i still can’t figuire it out. i’ve noticed a few other people have had the same problem but no one has offered any solutions except this one guy who downgraded from encore 2.0 to 1.5 and said it worked fine.

i use adobe media encoder, mpeg-2 dvd, encode the entire sequence without a problem and get my two files.

i can open the files in media player, they work perfect.

i import it to adobe encore, and immediately it starts lagging and getting jerky on the monitor. first time i thought it had to transcode, it did, same problem, burnt it to a dvd, played it on tv, it lags, shakes, etc…

i’ve tried everything what people have said from changing the field order from lower to upper, etc… and same problem every time i import it to encore.

do you use encore 2.0 ?? can you tell me exactly what settings on adobe media encoder you used?

thanks in advance!

vin.