Jeff Bellune
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DVD Folders burned to disc can be unpredictable, depending on which app is used to burn them. Typically, I will burn a disc direct from Encore for a one-off for a client, and then create a disc image from my project for the production burn.
I use Gear Pro to burn the image to disc, although I’ve never had any problem with Encore burning the image. Gear supports burning simultaneously to my multiple burners, and Encore doesn’t yet do that.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Putting the whole program in one timeline and using chapter markers is a good solution in general.
Putting the chapters/segments into different timelines will *always* result in pauses between chapters, so it is generally not a good idea.
If you want to give the audience the option to play the whole program back seamlessly, then don’t set up any Chapter End Actions. Chapter End Actions will also introduce a slight pause between chapters. Different players will have different length pauses, and some players won’t seem to pause at all.
To let the audience play one chapter and then return to a menu, use Chapter Playlists instead. You can use one chapter per playlist.
You can even break each segment into chapters – for example, the “Getting Ready” segment could have a chapter for the bride, the mother-in-law, the groom, etc. You would add those chapters for the individuals to the “Getting Ready” Chapter Playlist. But now I’m getting into the “art” of authoring rather than the “tech” of authoring, so I’d better stop. 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You’re welcome. Let us know how the burned disc works in a hardware player.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I get the same behavior that Joe has described – the Next button in the Preview window will not execute the end action of the current chapter; it will instead skip to the beginning of the next chapter.
There is a button in the Preview window that *will* execute the chapter’s end action, and it called, oddly enough, the Execute End Action button. 🙂
The only way the Next button in the Preview window could simulate executing the end action of a chapter is if the chapter’s end action is linked to the subsequent chapter. Then the behavior of the Next button and the Execute End Action button would be the same.
Just in case you didn’t already know, to get sequential playback of chapters in a timeline, you don’t set any end actions for the chapters at all. The default playback behavior is to simply proceed on to the next chapter. Also, if you do have end actions set for each chapter that link to the subsequent chapter, you will get a very slight pause between chapters. This is not usually desirable when the whole timeline is to be played.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I would not change your project at this point. Putting segments of your video into separate timelines and then assembling them via one or more Playlists is soooo Encore 1.x, and is IMHO a lot of unnecessary work. Setting up Chapter Playlists like you have done is the way to best use Encore 2.0’s power.
If you set up disc navigation so that individual chapters play and then return to the menu, then the audience should not be able to “skip” to the next chapter (or even back to the menu) if they have selected the current chapter from the menu. If they want to return to the menu, they should have to press the “Menu” button on the remote control, just as they would have to do during playback of the whole timeline.
If they want to Fast Forward through the chapter, that’s fine. At the end, they will be returned to the menu.
Two more notes from me:
1. Encore’s preview is only an approximation of a real DVD player. It’s good for a quick check of the disc, but that’s all. Do not base your final disc evaluation on Encore’s preview alone.
2. Software DVD players are a little better than Encore’s preview, but not much. The audience can do things with your disc that they can’t do on a hardware DVD player. Don’t trust a software DVD player for your final disc evaluation, either.
Always burn an RW disc to test your project, and play it on a hardware DVD player – several if you can. Watch every minute of your disc from beginning to end. Perform every disc navigation operation that you would expect your audience to perform. That is the only way to truly evaluate your disc, and be able to decide if you have successfully completed your project.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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MGM,
This is getting off-topic from the OP, so would you mind starting a new topic? I recommend you use the post above this one to start.
I’ll answer in the new topic.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[mgmdavao] “I exported
the entire timeline (about 112 minutes) to MPEG and imported same as asset
into Encore because I did not like the brief pause between sequences (or chapters)
when you play the DVD.”Thank you for the kind words about my book, and I am glad that it helped you learn Encore.
To your question – what was causing the brief pause between “sequences”? If it was a pause between timelines, that is unavoidable. If it was a pause between chapters, that *may* be fixable. We need to know how you constructed the playback of your disc – chapters in separate timelines or chapters in a single timeline?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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What version of Encore?
My first guess would be overrides. Do you have any set? Anywhere in the project? Using Encore 2.0, unless you have a very unique, complex and unusual navigation set up for the disc, you won’t need overrides.
In earlier versions of Encore, overrides could be useful if one was careful how they were used. The most common use for overrides in Encore 1.x was to let a menu button bring the audience back to a menu after a chapter was played, instead of continuing on with the rest of the timeline. Chapter Playlists and Chapter End Actions do that in Encore 2.0.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Add your video to a new timeline (and it’s associated audio file if the source audio isn’t muxed or interleaved) and then set the timeline’s end action to link back to itself.
As for compatibility, the reports I have read and the anecdotal evidence I’ve seen indicate that Encore’s DVDs created on a PC will be more compatible than DVDSPs created on a Mac.
There is also a slight edge in compatibility for DVD-R single-layer discs than DVD+R. However, the reverse seems to be true for dual-layer discs. Currently, Encore only supports +R DL burning.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Using Photoshop CS2.
Try this:
1. New NTSC DV Document. White background.
2. New Group. Name it with the proper button prefix.
3. New Layer in Group. Name it with the proper video placeholder prefix.
4. Use shape tool set to