Colin Balshaw
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Well, I just went to new menu in Encore and switched it to 16:9, but in the information window displays as 720×480 despite this clearly being a PAL project (And I’ve triple checked that in project settings dialogue).
I’ve imported my PSD background as an asset and simply dragged and dropped it into my menu, but it is too big and I have to scale it down to size. I have checked the interpret footage option is set to PAR 1.46
And yes I have tried to right click on the PSD asset and make it a new menu, but the menu appears blank and in 4:3 NTSC!
I’m thinking I might have to reinstall Encore becuase surely this is a bug in my system and not a widespread problem.
(But I will note that I’ve opened up my previous projects, and this is the same problem for all of them! I never realised they have all been in NTSC!)
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Cheers mate,
I actually figured out what it was, it was the profile was set to 4.1 and won’t allow for progressive pal, has to be at least 4.2.
Thanks for your help
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Can you post me a print screen of these settings? Because I have looked in Premiere, Media Encoder and After Effects and fail to see a progressive option for PAL?
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Yeh, but are you selecting PAL? NTSC works fine for progressive but not PAL…
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CS4 with the latest updates for both PP and AME.
The only presets for PAL are all 1080i, and when you go to change the interlaced or progressive when in 25fps, you can only choose between upper or lower field interlacing, not progressive! You can change to 24, 23.967 etc and get progressive that way but of course we shot 25p!
Is this a glitch in the h264 architecture or is it something much more complex?
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Hi Rick,
Are you transcoding in Encore and then previewing it? This will tell you if it is Encore transcoder, otherwise if this is fine, do you know if your DVD burner is functioning fine? Also if that isn’t the problem, what brand of DVD player are you using (Not a cheapy I’m hoping)?
And lastly and most importantly, what version of Encore? CS4 I assume?
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I know you may have already, but have you tried defragging? Also closing anything else on your system by going to your task manager and closing any processes that you don’t need?
If you are recieving a BSOD, take a note of what it actually says cos if you can get a glipmse of the top bit and then google it and that should source the problem, it usually starts with IRQL…
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When you say duller, do you mean less saturated? not as bright? It could be that the 16mm transfer could be done in RGB colour levels and Premiere is editing in 601. You should able to change the viewing monitor’s colour space by right clicking on it and the option to view in rgb or 601 should be in there.
Also if you are using After effects, rather than exporting and reimporting files, why don’t you use Dynamic Linking? It is heavy on processing power but it means you will retain the original quality until the end product!
Hope that helps
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When you say going back to tape do you mean exporting to tape? Because I was in the exact same scenario as you, I couldn’t export my sequences in AME so I rendered my entire 50 minute sequence and exported to tape, and then recaptured the footage and used that captured clip to burn onto DVD. It might cost you a tape, but hey it is easier than starting again!
Plus I don’t think you would be able to open your project in CS3 being in a CS4 format.*Brainwave* Why didn’t Adobe just integrate their software to work in conjunction with Sorenson Squeeze?
Hope I helped out.
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What authoring software are you using assuming this is finishing on DVD? Because it is probably just as easy exporting as a Microsoft DV Avi then using Adobe Encore (If you got this) to transcode to a mpeg2, as it determines the correct compression based on the filesize. I guess you could just export as a mpeg2 with Media Encoder but you’d be guessing the bitrate to fit on DVD.