Jeff Bellune
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“timeline end action won’t happen because the last chapter has an end action set (on all my timelines, as I need to play individual chapters and then return to menus)”
Step-by-step here, sorry. 🙂
Try deleting each of the end actions from the last chapters, and instead making the timeline end action link to where you need it to go. I can’t think of a scenario where you would need the last chapter of a timeline to have its own end action, whether it was different from the timeline’s end action or not.
Note: Please make sure you do any further testing with an RW disc or two. No coasters. 😉
-Jeff
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The likely solution to your second problem is that the pixel aspect ratio (PAR) is incorrect in CS2, or in CS2’s preview, or both.
The preview of the menu in Encore’s menu viewer may be fooling your eyes also if the “Correct Menu Pixels for TV Display” button is turned off.
-Jeff
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First: Overrides.
Do you have any set? For any project element? If so, why do you think you need them? Your disc seems complicated enough that they might be needed to accomplish your planned navigation, but the probability is very low. Even if your disc navigation is set up correctly, using overrides when not necessary will mess things up horribly.
-Jeff
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Also, depending on your menu background and the buttons’ appearance, you could create a solid-color mask that covers the video clip image in the Normal state. Then for the Selected and Activated states, you could make the mask transparent (using the Menu Color Set), which would allow only the selected button’s video clip to be visible.
-Jeff
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What were the audio settings for the troublesome assets?
-Jeff
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With that much content and using Dolby Digital ac3 audio, the max allowable bit rate is only 5.37 Mbps. You have set 6.0 Mbps.
If you are using PCM audio, then you only have 4.0 Mbps available for video. I’d stick with Dolby audio.
The easiest solution is to import an untranscoded avi file into Encore and let Encore automatically transcode it. If you don’t want to do that or can’t do that, then your best option is to switch to 2-pass VBR transcoding, and set your average bit rate to about 5 Mbps. Try setting max to 7 and min to 3 and see how you like the results.
-Jeff
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[atomicrabbit]
“Codec: XVID avi
Dimensions: 512×384
Duration: 11:14 min
Audio Format: MPEG-Layer-3
Fram Rate: 29 fps
Bit Rate: 141 kbps”There are so many things wrong with this from a technical standpoint that I don’t know what would help you out the most.
With both the video and audio in this clip, you are taking highly-compressed source material and re-transcoding it into new highly-compressed output material. This is a recipe for disaster, as you have discovered.
Kudos to you for getting “something like this” to work before, but again, as you have found out the hard way, it is a lousy workflow if you want consistent, quality results.
Good luck with future projects,
JeffThe Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[atomicrabbit] “What would cause the video bitrate to spike like it did? I reviewed the video and there wasn’t a large change in picture, so what would cause that?”
It could be a transcoder issue, or it could be that the source .avi file gave the transcoder fits. What transcoding software did you use? Nero Vision? What was the codec used in the original .avi files? You said that they weren’t high quality, which leads me to believe they were compressed to some greater degree than, say, DV or HuffYUV.
Before you start re-transcoding, try re-ripping using one of the tools at videohelp.com. I personally use DVDD when I need to rip footage off of the DVDs that I have created. It does a great job, and its illegal abilities don’t seem to interfere with a rip from an unprotected DVD.
If you still get the spike, or are otherwise unhappy with the results, then After Effects, Premiere Pro and Encore. Depending on the codec used in the source .avi files, you may like the Encore results better after it re-transcodes the VOB file.
-Jeff
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Frippy has a point – Using Nero to rip to VOBs is an unusual workflow for this kind of task. Usually one can just copy the VOBs right off of the DVD. We can address that in a moment.
The huge jump in bit rates at that point in the program could be the problem, even if the total bit rate stays under the DVD maximum. To know for sure, we need to know the format of the audio for the program. Is it ac3 or PCM? If it’s PCM, you’ve exceeded the max bit rate at that point by a good bit. If it’s ac3, then you may still be exceeding the max, or at least be coming perilously close. Re-transcoding the asset at a variable bit rate (VBR) with a significantly lower max and a reasonable average bit rate is probably the best solution, unless you are willing to edit out the program content where the spike occurred.
About using Nero – There are any number of DVD rippers available that will rip a non-copy protected DVD to compliant mpeg video files and accompanying audio files. These ripped .m2v and audio files will work much better in Encore than the VOBs. VOBs usually contain extra information than just the video information, and that extra info can gum up the works.
***General Note to Everyone Reading This: if the DVD is copy-protected, then it wasn’t meant to be ripped. You can Google for DVDDecrypter. Let your conscience be your guide. Please don’t steal others’ intellectual property.***
-Jeff
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