[Celene Haberkost]

Hi Heath! Sorry it took me so long to get back:

Are your projects in Premiere Pro DV projects?
-Yes, they are.

Are you exporting to Media Encoder using the DVD settings, and bringing those files in to Encore?
– I exported them all as MPEG2’s with .m2v video and .wav audio.

If so, can you instead, export your Premiere timeline to a DV file, the import that into Encore, and choose the render options there.
– Exported “Outtakes” as an AVI file, put it into the timeline instead, but still got the same “aspect ratio” error.

Is there anything else you can think of that I can try?

Thanks for all your help!

[Celene Haberkost]

I spent some time deleting the timelines (I had quite a few), and I recreated them, all except for ‘outtakes’ and ‘rehearsal’, which I recreated before. (I redid ‘Outtakes’ first, then got the error on ‘rehearsal’, then recreated ‘rehearsal’.)

After trying to build it again, it now has circled back to ‘outtakes’, saying it still has an aspect ratio problem. I think it tries to build the oldest timeline first, and continues from there.

Do you have anything else that I can try?

Thanks again for all your help!

Celene

[Celene Haberkost]

Don’t have any playlists, but found some good news and bad news.

I deleted “outtakes” and tried to build again. It gave me the same exact error as it was planning the files for the movie, but this time, it’s on the timeline called “rehearsal”. This is the same cyclic effect I was getting on my “internal error” before. If I delete “rehearsal” and rebuild it, it will happen on the next timeline, and then the next, and then circle back to “outtakes” again.

So the good news is it thinks all the timelines have improper aspect ratios, but that’s the bad news too, probably.

Does this help any, or make the diagnosis worse? 🙂

[Celene Haberkost]

I don’t think it’s in a playlist… not quite sure how to do that.

Also, I tried the “interpret footage” option before, but it’s greyed out. I read that it can only interpret footage on untranscoded AVIs. This is an MPEG. 🙁

[Celene Haberkost]

You can get to ‘outtakes’ from the special features menu only. Nothing else is connected to it. When it finished, it goes back to the special features menu.

[Celene Haberkost]

Hi Joe!

That’s good to know!

No, I don’t believe I have any button transitions… I just have very simple text buttons that I copied from a pre-made layout in the program.

Can anything else be doing it?

Thanks again!

Celene

[Celene Haberkost]

Hi Heath,

Yeah, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem combining 4:3 and 16:9, since it lets me do it without complaining at time of building the DVD. Though I’ve seen problems where it didn’t complain about things wrong before…

I’m not sure on the exact codec, but I can check. I rendered everything through Premiere Pro 3, so I’m using whatever the default is there. I’m guessing/hoping they work together.

All my files are currently .mpg video and .wav audio. The thing that may be catching it up is that to fix another error I got when building my DVD, I converted all the .m2v’s to .mpg’s. It solved the issue I was having before (when it was not transcoding the video, but erroring), but now I’m getting this error. I’m wondering if it’s related. Though, the aspect ratio still shows 16:9, so it doesn’t look like it has a problem with it?

Sorry if I’m making this more of a headache than you bargained for! But thanks very much for helping me out… any other ideas?

Celene

[Celene Haberkost]

Hi Heath! Thanks for the fast reply!

What resolution are you rendering to?

All of my dimensions are set at 720 x 480, though is there somewhere to set the resolution it renders to?

When you say that your movie is 16:9 but an interview is 4:3, do you mean that the interview, which is in your movie is a different aspect ratio?

Sorry, I should have specified. Of the DVD, there are several files/timelines. One is called “movie”, the next called “outtakes”, the next called “interview”, etc. “Movie” and “outtakes” are both 16:9, but “interview” is 4:3. Is that doable? My menus are in 4:3 as well.

The weird thing is, it gives me the error on “outtakes”, saying it’s aspect ratio is unsupported, but “movie” renders fine, and “movie” and “outtakes” are exactly the same footage filmed on the same day from the same camera and both are in 16:9!

Thanks again!