[Brecht Wouters]

Does the video freeze only when you play the timeline? If you move the framefinder, does the picture change to the frame you selected?

Well, my guess is that Premiere has problems with the format you’re using from the dvd. If you get a red bar at the top of the timeline, your video is not optimised for Premiere. Simply pressing ‘enter’ when the timeline is selected should do the trick. Premiere will then make and save a (temporary) videofile which it can work optimally.

Otherwise you can click ‘file’, ‘export’, ‘media’. Then you select the format you want (Avi, NTSC/PAL, 4:3/widescreen etc) and Premiere makes an avi which you should be able to use without problems. Takes some time to render though, but your problem might be solved.

[Brecht Wouters]

Have you tried encoding/exporting it to another format before you edit? Does Premiere ask you to render it when you drag it into the timeline? (the bar above the timeline turns red)

[Brecht Wouters]

I have a whole different problem with the Media Encoder: it doesn’t work at all. I installed CS4 directly on a new system and now Media Encoder won’t even find the media, although directly put through by Premiere, which does locate the media, as it plays 🙂

I really dislike this option, I would like the option of rendering an avi through premiere (as it was in previous versions) instead of being forced to use media encoder. It just gives more trouble. I have now installed CS3 again just to be able to export movies.

[Brecht Wouters]

Giving each timeline the same number of audio and subtitle tracks works for me as well..

Thanks a lot!

[Brecht Wouters]

The specific flowchart is the following:

1. I enter a set up menu from the main menu.
2. A timeline with the animation from main to set-up plays. The end action is going to the set up menu.
3. Every button on the set up menu had a ‘linked back to here’, with a ‘specify link’ to change the correct subtitles or audiotrack.
4. I click on the ‘Main Menu’ button.
5. A timeline plays to animate the set up menu out.
6. I click play on the Main Menu
7. A timeline plays to animate the main menu out.
8. The timeline with the movie plays from chapter one, but no changes are visible or audible.

Are you suggesting that, when I give every timeline containing the animations and extras the same amount of audio tracks and subtitle tracks, even if they are empty, that should solve the problem?

[Brecht Wouters]

Hi,

No, I have one main timeline with two audio tracks and nine subtitle tracks. I have many timelines though (a few extras and transitions between menus).

Regards

[Brecht Wouters]

Hi Sergio,

Your buttons are probably not equally large in size?

Well, Encore DVD automatically routes the buttons on your menu. What you should do is deactivate that option (which is activated by default). Click on the menu in the project tab, then click the box in the properties tab which says ‘Automatically route buttons’.

If you then click the ‘show button routing’ option, next to the safe action/safe title option, underneath the monitor, you can see which buttons route to which. You can now click on each arrow, directing it to any button you want.

I hope this helps!

[Brecht Wouters]

Sure, it works. But what about if you want to set things up through a menu, and thén go to a main menu and press play? I’ve tried the specify link, but it doesn’t seem to work on every station.

I select with every button ‘link back to here’, then open the specify link and select the option it has to change.

How can it work on a standalone (only the subs, the audio won’t change if I select it, even though it is linked correctly) but not on a PS3 AND the preview AND Media player? That even won’t take the change in subs..

[Brecht Wouters]

The solution presented itself: the client allowed to output it in 50Mbs, which worked out fine.

Thanks all!

[Brecht Wouters]

Is there an automated way that for instance automatically also deletes images from the documents folder that’a used in the project?