Stills duration being shortened by Encore 1.5

[Joe Bowden]

No, it’s not you, but it does also happen in Encore 1.0.1.

It’s the ‘Optimize Stills’ setting in Premiere Pro (it’s in the AVI Options dialog). Stills encoded with this setting on throw off many video applications, including Encore. If you uncheck it, then re-export, you should find your problem has been solved.

Regards,
Joe

[Roadkill]

If you didn’t already, try exporting from Premiere with the “Optimize Stills” setting disabled. That is what usually causes problems with the stills in Encore.

Also see Adobe TechDoc: AVI exported from Premiere Pro 1.x does not play in Encore DVD 1.5. (Not the same, but a similar problem with the infamous “Optimize Stills”.)

[Rj Hewitt]

Wow that was quick folks!

I was made aware of the optimise stills issue after reading several other posts last week and it is indeed disabled. Problem is still there.

I’ll try following the link provided.

Many thanks and if I find the little #**!@# I’ll post back.

Cheers!

[Roadkill]

[R Hewitt] “…the final still doesn’t fade to black, it leaves a faint image of the last frame.”

It could help to add at least half a second of black at the end of the timeline to prevent this.

[Rj Hewitt]

Back again.

I checked the link and the ‘known’ issue from Adobe was one that featured in Encore 1.0 but was fixed with the first bug fix.

The issue related to the first frame playing and the rest freezing. This problem plays the still of any duration for exactly 25 frames (PAL 1-second), the first frame of the video remains frozen for a further 4-seconds and then the video plays correctly afterwards. The total freeze time of 5-seconds is the actual duration of the still as indicated by the timeline in PP1.5 and oddly in Encore 1.5 itself!

Mmm, puzzled. Will sleep on this for a further night in the hope that something comes to light while I snooze!

Thanks again.

[Roadkill]

The TechDoc specifically mentions Encore 1.5. I would suggest to double-check whether or not the video was exported without “Optimize Stills” active.

[Rj Hewitt]

That’s exactly what I did. The timeline in PP1.5 has exactly 5-seconds of black on the end and playing back the exported AVI in Media Player and PP1.5 works perfectly so the export of video is working but looks like the metadata is being ignored by Encore.

Just tried the same in the original install of Encore 1.01 and it works fine there!

Mmm. Adobe, I like a challenge but I could do without it right now (not that they ever listen)!

[Rj Hewitt]

Sorted!!

Optimise Stills appears in two places, Project Settings – Video and Rendering and Export Settings – Video and Rendering. BOTH were disabled as mentioned previously but it appears that unless you remove the offending still (last week the project setting still had optimise set) and drag it back from the project folder to the timeline the export option is completely ignored.

Surely the Export settings should override whatever you set otherwise what is the point of putting the option in two places if the project setting takes priority? The project setting for optimise sticks with the original clip on the timeline regardless. Could someone check this please? I’m well used to the ‘unusual’ effects in many of Avid’s applications but this one is a first for me with Adobe.

Lack of black also sorted. Although it was at the end of the timeline in PP1.5 and played correctly, the ‘workspace’ marker on the timeline wasn’t including it although it was getting rendered and strangely did work in Media Player.

[Roadkill]

Glad to hear you got your problems solved. The “lack of black” was probably due to the same optimizing issue: Any video without motion (which 5 seconds of black video easily qualifies as) can suffer from this.

[R. Hewitt]

Thanks again folks. DVD now created.

Thanks for all your help. Another foible added to the list of workarounds.

Cheers.