Jeff Bellune
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Overrides appeared in Encore before the advent of Chapter Playlists and Chapter End Actions.
The main use for an override was a menu button override. A timeline would have its end action link to another timeline so that they could be played sequentially.
But for certain DVDs, especially performance DVDs, it was desirable for the audience to be able to watch and individual performance and then return to a menu. That’s where overrides were necessary.
The button would link to a timeline and the button override would be set to link to a menu. When the timeline was finished playing after being called from the menu button, its end action (linking to the next timeline) would be overridden, and the audience would be returned to a menu.
If the timeline was played as part of a sequence of timelines, no override would be in effect, and the the timeline’s normal end action would execute.
You can think of an override this way (warning – you will need to read this sentence 2 or 3 times to have it sink in):
“An object’s override alters the end action of its own end action”.
In my book, I give an example of how to set up a trivia quiz using overrides.
As for timeline, menu and disc overrides, I can’t give you an example of a situation where you would need those. But I can imagine that if your project is very complex, and your disc navigation has to jump here and there based on different places that the audience might be at any given time, then overrides may be the only way to get the audience where they need to go. But you would have to be extremely careful, and have your disc navigation planned out to the nth degree to make something like that work. If Encore ever gives the author direct access to the GPRMs, then it’s conceivable that overrides will be removed from the program.
In Encore 2.0, by using Chapter End Actions and Chapter Playlists, most projects can avoid the use of overrides altogether.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Dave,
That link is corrupted in Firefox. Does it work in IE?
-Jeff
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You’re welcome.
Unless you know exactly why you need an override set, and why you can’t set up your disc navigation any other way – don’t use ’em.
-Jeff
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Make sure that not a single override is set anywhere in your project. Then try again.
-Jeff
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[Simon_Tune] “can anyone help please?”
Yes. Go back to Windows XP (32-bit). Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 is not supported on Vista.
I wouldn’t hold my breath for the next version being supported, either. At least not on 64-bit Vista.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s the way it is.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Trim the audio in all timelines that have audio longer than video.
How it happens, I think, depends on how the video transcoding was done compared to how the audio transcoding was done, and then how the file was multiplexed (to put audio and video together in th same file). If Neil Wilkes happens to read this, he may be able to shed some more light on the intricacies of audio transcoding.
If trimming the audio doesn’t work, then try exporting from Sorenson as separate audio and video streams. This is the preferred format for almost any DVD authoring software, Encore included.
-Jeff
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Are the old video and the new video different lengths – by even one frame? Does the audio track get replaced, too? Are the video and audio lengths different – again, by even one frame?
-Jeff
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When you say “at an angle”, are you talking about a 3D effect, or are you talking about a simple rotation of the text?
For the button’s bounding box, Encore will always create the smallest rectangle (and only a rectangle) that encompasses all of the button graphics and text (or text only, in your case). This is not a limitation of Encore – the DVD spec allows up to 36 rectangular buttons per 4:3 menu (18 buttons per widescreen menu).
So as you have probably guessed, your only options are to scale the buttons so that they don’t overlap, or change their relative on-screen positions.
-Jeff
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“Normalization” does not do what you need it to do in this situation. Normalization takes the loudest sound in a sound file and “normalizes” it to 0 dB.
If, for example, you have 3 normalized audio clips mixed together, then the resulting mix will most likely have audio levels that exceed 0 dB, and likely by a large margin.
In Premiere Pro, you need to make sure that each individual audio track never exceeds about -6 dB to leave a little dynamic headroom. During playback, monitor the Master meters carefully. They should always stay noticeably below 0 dB in order to avoid clipped and distorted exported audio.
-Jeff
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