Craig Carlen
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I need to amend my initial statement as well – effects keyframes do work – unless the video clip in question is a .mov formatted file with alpha channel (animation). Seems to work fine with mpeg, mp4, and/or avi. But no joy on any .mov file I have that I’ve preserved the alpha channel (basically AE animations) regardless of bitrate and resolution.
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Sorry for the delay – had some out-of-town things that needed my attention.
So I never thought to check for a upgrade – downloaded the upgrade (boxed) and installed it. Didn’t fix the problem. Even went so far as to uninstall all my third party effects and re-install them – no joy.
Any other options before I revert to CS5.0?
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Agreed on not being a fan of Divx/Xvid – at least for editing. For archiving to my media server in my home theater they’re great. Great compression and great quality.
When I get a project file in a non-traditional format like Divx or Xvid I look to non-traditional sources (ie…consumer) to re-encode to something I can use. My personal favorite is Wondershare Video Converter. I haven’t found a format it can’t handle and it does a very good job.
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Well re-encoding from Premiere Pro seems to have worked – at least the DVD plays. It’s jerky and skippy – and it stops after about 8 minutes, but it plays.
I’m wondering if I changed to a CBR if I’d have more success? Guess I’ll play around with some settings and see what I can get.
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In Premiere Pro CS3 I select Export to Encore and the Export to Encore window comes up. I name the DVD (in this case CPDVD) and select Author With Menus. I click Settings and select NTSC Medium Quality from the Export Settings window. I otherwise don’t change anything (i.e. I keep the audio format at PCM, I don’t select a multiplexer (keeping at none) and I don’t change any of the video settings.
Encore will come up after the video is transcoded with the video and audio as separate assets. I created a menu and submenu in Photoshop (I took two that were included with Encore and just changed the background photo). I link the chapter points in the timeline to each point in the submenus and so on. When I go to build the DVD everything checks out fine. I don’t get this Warning message until it’s a few minutes into the actual build (a small amount of data is actually burned to the DVD).
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Nope – no copy protection or limits on copies, I’ve not even specified region codes.
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Don’t mean to cross-post, but this is all continued here: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/145/862096
Basically the same problem.
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It may seem a long route to go, but when I upload my videos to YouTube I’ve always done all my editing in Premiere Pro and export as AVI-DV. I’ll then use Microsoft’s Windows Media Encoder to convert that to a medium bandwidth (usually 512kbs or 1024kbs) .wmv – I’ve never liked the results I get from Premiere’s Media Encoder for Windows Media. I then use that .wmv to upload to YouTube – I get great results going that route.
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Went and got the the CS3 Creative Suite today – looks like I’ve got about a days worth of installing ahead of me with 11 DVDs in the box. And I seem to remember reading on the Adobe forums that uninstalling previous installations and then using their Adobe Clean wiping utility is advised before installing any CS3 suite. Nice way to waste a Saturday.
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I know the markers are correct in the PPCS2 timeline. It appears that if I export the timeline to Encore, Encore will only recognize unnumbered markers and won’t recognize the PPCS2 DVD markers. Looks like I’ll be dropping unnumbered markers on top of the DVD markers and investing in Encore after Christmas.