[Daniel Ludwig]

hi kleoniki,
the best way to create/author a DVD is to prepare your assets before you start authoring.

that means:

1) export your movie as selfcontained quicktime-file to your harddisc
2) encode your video/audio/menus with compressor to MPEG2 video and AC-dolby digital audio
3) import your encoded video/audio-assets the the authoring-application and author

if you follow this guideline, you would have the best result. learn how to create menus using the button-overlay-techique, don´t use layered-menus.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
have you used the button-overlay-technique or have you been creating yor menu using layered (PSD-)menus?

layered menus wont work on most players and they have a VERY slow navigation.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
try to delete you authoring-script-folder of your project-file, that might help. please make a backup-file first.

I´m not sure about that, it might be a bit different between MAC and PC, I´m a mac-user.

maybe it´s a bug.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Eric,
sorry, but that´s not true – with Rimage Systems DVD-R-Robots you can apply copy protection to a burned DVD.

@nina: you might look for someone who have a Rimage DVD-Roboter.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi again,
what kind of audio did you use? could it be possible that episode transcode your audio to mp2?

according to your menu-problem:

I know encore CS3 have a bug with button-creation/button-overlays within menus.

so this may be your main problem.

could you please post a screenshot from your menu/button routing – it´s not quite clear to me, what you meant by that.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi ryan,
as I´m in germany, we are allready in helloween + 1 day, so we are back to normal working-day over here!

why you think audio could be a problem in your case, normally all would be transcoded if it wont match.

what you´ve used? AC3 or PCM audio? multi-channel audio?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey dougle,
you need to learn the basics before you could start doing things like that.

I would advice to use CS4 or CS5 instead of CS3 because it´s very buggy!

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Ryan,
first of all: Encore CS3 is a big mess. it is extremly buggy and I would recommend to use CS4 or better CS5.

so for your transcoded/untranscoded audio you should have a look at your project-settings. encore itself could only handle PCM or dolby AC-3 audio depending on your transcoding/project-settings.

as for all streams (video and audio) I would advice to use elementary streams.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Rich,
the best way would be to export your clips from premiere as a self-contained file.

afterwards import them into encore if you need specific chapter-marker and let encore encode the clips with the chaptermarker on the timelines.

if you wont need specific chaptermarker on a specific TC you an also do a bach-prozess within adobe media encoder to create your assets.

if you starting encore make sure your project-settings are 720p59.94 if not, all your material will be scaled to the selected format (1080 for example).

als be awared that you can´t use different input-materials with encore as the BD-spec normally allow.

all stuff will be scaled/transcoded to the selected setting.

and finally – yes, 720p59.94 is part of the BD-specs.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

oh,
damed – you´re right!

sorry for my mistake – of course it is the left channel 1 that will be connected to FCP.

But (a2) is the connection for VO to your timeline, which audio-track on the timeline will be connected will have the VO-audio afterwards, that was my mistake.

That was far to early this morning – I had an very early shift today.

cheers

danny