Erik Pontius
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Chapter points are created in the “Timeline” of the clip. All of your 30, 10sec animations would have to be in one MPEG or AVI file. Create a “timeline” with Encore, you can choose the option to “import as timeline” and choose your MPEG or AVI. In the timeline view for the clip there is a button to add a chapter point. Thing to remember is Encore will only place a chapter point at an I-frame (the long vertical marks along the bottom of the time line) when dealing with an MPEG…this might make it tricky to place chapter points at the beginning of each animation. Using an AVI and placing you chapter points, and then having Encore transcode the AVI to MPEG will create I-frames for you at those chapter points.
You could also do this with Premiere, using Premiere to place chapter points and encode the video for you with chapter points. Then import the mpeg into Encore as a timeline.Erik
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Another solution would be to make a short 4sec menu that contains just your loop as suggested in the prev post. Then link your submenu “main menu” button to this shorter 4sec loop version of your menu.
Your first play would be the long menu that includes your intro and loop point…this avoids the slight paused mentioned in the previous post before. Then going back to the “main menu” from any submenu would link to the shorter version of the menu.Erik
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Not with a DV source as far as I know. Some analog capture cards might have the ability to do so along with proc amps for video control.
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can you elaborate a little on the process you used to create your menu? Did you create a still menu with photoshop and then import it as a menu, then link an audio track to the menu audio property? How long is the audio track? 10 minutes?
Erik
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I you haven’t already done so, you might try burning a test disc and playing it on a set top DVD player and see if you have the same behavior. In my experience, the Encore preview always has a bit of an exagerated lag as it goes from menu to animation to menu, etc… Set top players might behave differently. I’ve seen variances with the same disc between various players as some can access the titles and load menus faster than others. But, at least in 1.5, I was never able to get it to be completely seamless. Not sure if anything changed in 2.0.
Erik
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I was a bit turned off by the AE 5.5 CIB. Long ago I went throught the CIB for AE 5.5, and found that I got to theend of the book and really hadn’t learned anything. It had a habit of telling you to do things and not telling you why to do them. The structure of the book was bad in that it attempted to teach you AE by building one project.
The Meyer’s books were better since they were structured to teach you individual parts of AE by text discussion (the why) and step-by-step instructions (the how).I’m glad to hear that the AE 7 CIB has changed.
e.
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Go with Vol 1. AE in Production assumes that you already have knowledge of AE and it is broken up into case studies rather than a tutorial that builds on itself.
There are sections in both Motion Graphics vols that suggest exploring certain topics more in depth with the Production book, so it’s a good companion book to have.e.
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Probably, good practice to add a little black at the beginning and ending of videos.
Black at the end solves the problem with a rather abrupt exit at the end of the title.
Black at the beginning is important for stereo receivers with dolby digital to have a chance to recognize the format prior to the start of any audio from the show itself. Otherwise, there will be silence as the receiver locks on.Erik
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Converting the NTSC avi to PAL in Premiere will look horrible…more less how you are describing, since it is doing a poor job of scaling and changing the framerate.
Your best bet is to use a stand alone transcoder like Canopus Procoder (which does an excellent job of format conversions) since it will do a better job. Procoder isn’t cheap, but is probably money well spent in terms of it’s quality and capabilities.
Another option is to find a tape dub house around that will do the format conversion with a professional hardware format converter. This can get pretty costly.
The other thing to consider, is whether you really need a format conversion. A many DVD players sold in Europe will play both formats and do the conversion for you.
Erik
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Here’s a link to Gear’s page:
https://www.gearsoftware.com/products/gearpromastering.cfm