Brandon Katcher
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Thank you for the reply. Currently, I’m using a program called inscribe for the transcriptions, but I can export to plain text, XML, HTML, Final Cut Pro markers, sub rip and spruce.
Thanks,
Brandon -
Thank you for the quick reply.
I haven’t had good luck doing a framerate conversion. I’ve always been under the impression that a speed up is a better option. But any tips on settings to do it this way? -
Looks like I have found the issue. I updated the firmware on the Samsung, and now the test disc is working right. Unfortunately, the original disc is still not working, which means it is going to take rebuilding the whole disc in order to get it to work. There goes another day wasted dealing with Encore’s numerous bugs.
Thank you very much for your help solving this problem,
Brandon -
Thanks for the reply, and the help. I am using both a PS3 and a Samsung BD-P1500 to test. The Samsung has a “Disc Menu”, a “Return” and a Popup Menu/Title Menu”. The only button that ever works is the “Disc Menu Button”. I guess it’s possible that it could be the player. I’m going to try a firmware update on the Samsung to see if it fixes it.
I’m also going to attempt a Popup menu, which might make this whole issue more or less a non-issue.
Thanks,
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Jon,
Thank you for the reply. I just tried making a short test blu-ray from scratch, and I’m still not able to get the Menu button to go to anything but the main menu. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the only thing I’m changing is the “Menu Remote” section in the Timeline Properties. Nothing else needs to be changed, right? Even so, it’s default is “Last Menu”, so even if I didn’t do anything to that field to start with, it still should have worked.I think I have found the issue. It seems that Encore only listens to the “Title Button”. I tried leaving the “Title Button” field in the Disc Properties to “Not Set” to see if that was the source of the conflict, but then the menu button on the remote doesn’t even work. I’m have also set the “Title Button” to a different menu, and pressing the menu button always sends to whatever “Title Button” is set to.
I have tested this on two different players, making sure to hit the menu button and not the title menu button. Any ideas?
Thanks again,
Brandon -
Read through my post below “Blu-Ray Menu Choppy”. I have searched around, tried many different things, (Frame Rates, Compression, Doom9’s Hack, etc) and have found no solution to this problem. It is inexcusable that Adobe has not fixed this problem, or at least given us the option to not transcode the menu. It’s pretty ridiculous. I ended up purposely lowering the frame rate of the original video to make the choppy menu seem intentional. It seems to have worked, but still not an ideal solution.
Brandon -
The menus are in 23.98.
I also tried the solution listed on the bottom of this page, but haven’t gotten it to work either.
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=158045&highlight=encore
This seems to be a problem with CS5 on a Mac, and there doesn’t seem to be any workarounds.
Thanks,
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So I have tried different transcoding settings on test menus, including H264, Mpeg2, and it doesn’t seem to change a thing. After doing some checking, it seems that no matter what, Encore will encode the menus into Mpeg2, and every time, it screws up the framerate. I’m not really sure what to do at this point.
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Thank you for the help. I am using H264 with a Max Bitrate of 30Mbps, 1920×1080 23.976.
The menus are simple. The main menu is simply a motion menu with 3 buttons.
Does the Quality Presets Change anything? I tried “transcoding now” the video files used in the menus before burning using H264 1920×1080 on this last run, but it did not change anything
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Danny,
Thank you for the tip, I didn’t know that Encore re-encoded menus again. Unfortunately, I built a new disc with quicktime Prores files as the motion menus, and it is still having the problem. The tracks themselves are fine, it’s just the menus that are having the problem. Any other ideas? Could it be an incompatibility with the frame rate? (23.967)
Thanks for the help,
Brandon