How to avoid full re-render after small changes in some files

[Joe Bowden]

Sorry if I misunderstood you, Dave. I thought from your original comment that you were suggesting using MPEG-2 over AVI in Encore. The point I was trying to make was that what Brodd is describing should not happen, and does not happen for me. Not that it can’t happen.

Which is why I was asking to get to the root of the problem, and not necessarily take a detour that might solve the immediate problem, but not the problem Brodd is seeing.

[Joe Bowden]

Brodd, what’s the path to your external disc? And the device- is it USB2 or Firewire?

Thanks,
Joe

[Brodd Nesset]

The external disk is Firewire, I don’t use other devices (add/remove) except this one, but anyway how could that matter? The already transcoded files are on the internal disk, as is the Project file.

The files all read as Transcoded in the project window. Still Encore deletes them all and starts from the top when I make a new disc. Go figure.

I’m pretty certain I use ‘Automatic’ for Transcode settings (there is no check-sign outside anyting in that sub-menu). However when I go to preferences for Edit Transcode setting, I get PAL 2 MBPS, which seems reasonable for what I want & get.

[Brodd Nesset]

[I also posted this further up, by accident]

The external disk is Firewire, I don’t use other devices (add/remove) except this one, but anyway how could that matter? The already transcoded files are on the internal disk, as is the Project file.

The files all read as Transcoded in the project window. Still Encore deletes them all and starts from the top when I make a new disc. Go figure.

I’m pretty certain I use ‘Automatic’ for Transcode settings (there is no check-sign outside anyting in that sub-menu). However when I go to preferences for Edit Transcode setting, I get PAL 2 MBPS, which seems reasonable for what I want & get.

[Joe Bowden]

How could it matter? Well, that’s what I’m trying to find out- what you describe doesn’t happen for me.

More likely, it’s an issue with your project (I’ll still investigate the external drive scenario). If you create a new project with a single AVI file imported from your external drive, add it to a timeline, then build a DVD folder and close, saving the project, does it still happen?

[Brodd Nesset]

…Thanks for the suggestions guys. I’m in another timezone, and will try your suggestion (setting up a little test-project) friday.

It makes sense that Encore needs to do a re-transcode when the project changes in file-size. However I’m only correcting spelling mistakes in a couple of menus, and how much difference could that make? Well, I’ll be back with the results in some hours.

[Brodd Nesset]

For anyone looking up this older thread, or searching that topic, here’s an update:
The external Firewore drive seems to be the culprit, definetly. This does NOT mean that I recommend against useng such storage devices in general. My setup might be a little ‘special’, as the drive is routed through my external soundcard first. This is from M-Audio and performs great by the way, but: there have been some whining from the Windows camp that their units while performing flawlessly on the Mac, sometimes have ‘issues’ on Windows. Indeed I have had to reinstall the driver for it a couple of times, when it has mysteriously ‘disappeared’ from my config. This slight unstability might or might not play a role for the harddisk next in the chain (the soundcard will not work if I flip the row). Nevertheless this is still a mystery, because the external harddisk always boots with the same drive-letter, and it’s always available from Explorer. Still sometimes Encore loads previous projects from it completely transparent, other times it claims to miss some files which indeed are where they should be(!), and on top of it this strange behavior of sometimes re-transcoding discs from the bottom for each disc copy I make … oh dear. Nothing is concistent, but when I move every file in a project over to an internal disk, there’s never a problem with Encore.