-
Encore Scroll Menu
-
Great, thanks to everyone for there answers! My dvd is burning right now 😀 (Transcoding takes a long time pfffff)
-
I’ve burned the dvd, but a lot of scenes are choppy. One episode doesn’t even play!
What’s with that? And does Encore have to transcode? -
[Anne Muun] “I’ve burned the dvd, but a lot of scenes are choppy. One episode doesn’t even play!
What’s with that? And does Encore have to transcode?”Are your source files already mpeg2, DVD-compliant? If not, then Encore has to transcode.
What bit rate is used for the mpeg2 files?
What audio format are you using on the DVD – PCM, Dolby Digital, or MPEG audio?
What brand of blank media are you using?
What software and/or hardware DVD players are you using to test the disc?
The answers to all of these questions can affect how your disc turns out.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
Here are the answers:
Are your source files already mpeg2, DVD-compliant? If not, then Encore has to transcode.
The source files are originally .VOB but converted to AVI because of the framesize (720-468). Is there a way I an convert them straight to MPEG-2?What bit rate is used for the mpeg2 files?
I have no idea… where can I find that?What audio format are you using on the DVD – PCM, Dolby Digital, or MPEG audio?
I use Dolby Digital.What brand of blank media are you using?
I use a dvd-rw from Imation.What software and/or hardware DVD players are you using to test the disc?
I’ve tested 3 dvd-players and my laptop:
Laptop: Works fine… only needs a little time to think about
the second episode. (didn’t work on dvd players)dvd player 1 (LG): Horrible… Choppy and episode 2 doesn’t work. The
dvd player just stops playing the dvd after I choose
episode 2.dvd player 2 (Philips): Also pretty horrible. It actually always plays horrible
with dvd-rw. But again, episode 2 won’t work, the dvd
player goes back to the menu. Video is choppy.dvd player 3 (?): Better then the other two. Video is less choppy but
the dvd player needs more time to ‘think’ about what
to play next. When choosen episode 2, it just plays
episode 1. After that, every other link to an episode
‘change’ into episode 1. Basically, I can’t play any
other episode, then episode 1.I hope that’s enough information…
-
Since they are coming off of the DVD directly as .VOB files, it will improve your chances of maintaining quality and not having Encore transcode if you can rip them to elementary .m2v/.mpv and .ac3 files (assuming the audio in the .VOB files is ac3). VideoReDo works for me, as do any number of free tools. Google for ripping software and you will have many choices.
It’s possible Encore will still transcode them if it doesn’t like something about the files. For example, 704×480 frame sizes will be transcoded to 720×480. It may be that your 720×486 frame size clips may also still get transcoded.
If Encore transcoded the .avi files using its “Automatic” setting, then your bit rate is probably OK. But to be safe, go to File>Project Settings>Advanced and then change the max transcoding bit rate to 7 Mbps from the default 8 Mbps. Some DVD players don’t like bit rates above 7 Mbps on burned discs.
Try higher quality blank media. I recommend Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (in that order). You may want to burn one +R or -R disc just to eliminate the possibility of RW being the playback problem.
Burn at only half the rated speed of your burner or your blank media, whichever is lower. That gives your burner a better chance of getting all the ones and zeros in the right place. 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
I’ll try that right now… I let you no how it turned out.
-
I converted the files to directly from VOB to MPG and the quality is mucht better! The episodes play fine and editing in Encore is easier 😀
There’s just one other thing. I’ve decided to put a Scene Selection menu on the dvd. Yesterday I’ve burned the dvd without any problems, but without the Scene Selection menu’s. Right now, I want to burn the dvd again (with the Scene Selection menu’s), but now Encore suddenly says that the project exceeds the disc capacity!
The four episodes combined are 4.6 GB. Why can’t Encore burn the dvd?
-
Did you inadvertently add any DVD-ROM content?
If not, please list the exact steps that took to add the menus: what new assets you added, any new timelines you created, how you set up the new links, etc.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
As far as I know, I didn’t add any DVD-ROM content.
Like I said, yesterday the dvd was burned succesfully.
What I did today:I’ve created four new ‘Scene Selection’ menu’s in Photoshop. I added them to my project (of the dvd I burned yesterday). I did NOT add any movie or audio files! I just linked the ‘Scene Selection’ menu’s together and to the four excisting menu’s. I changed only one thing in the movie files, I added a cupple more Chapter Points.
Maybe I should note, that the ‘Scene Selection’ menu’s I’ve added, have four animated buttons per menu, so sixteen in total.
-
[Anne Muun] “As far as I know, I didn’t add any DVD-ROM content”
That’s why I said “inadvertently”. 🙂
Make sure you check the DVD-ROM Content section of the Build panel.
The other thing to consider is that the animation of your Scene Select Menus requires En to put additional video content (the video that makes up the menu animations) on the disc. If your program content was very close to the 4.7 GB limit for a single-layer DVD, then those extra animations may have put the disc content over the limit.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up