Jeff Bellune
Forum Replies Created
-
You can’t assign a poster frame from a different chapter than the one that is the target of the button’s link. You would have to composite the image you want in the button graphic in Photoshop or After Effects.
If the first frame of the timeline isn’t “bright” enough, then Encore will search for the first bright frame after the chapter point. This works in 2.0; I don’t know if that feature was implemented in 1.5.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
On what software/hardware DVD players did you test the finished disc?
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
It’s easier for Encore to handle, and *may* prevent sync errors to some degree.
If you imported an interleaved or multiplexed video/audio stream, Encore would have break out the audio anyway when the project was built.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
If you are exporting as QT ref files, make them self-contained movies, and export the audio as aiff.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
It sounds like you are having issues with how the subpicture highlight looks.
Go into the Menu Color Set and create a new, editable set from the Automatic set (which is not editable). Then play with color and opacity until you get a look that you like.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
If you will be recording and playing back on the same machine, then almost any brand will do.
If you will record and distribute, then good luck. Some (many? all?) DVD recorders manipulate the video and the file system such that playback in many brands and models of hardware DVD players is not certain at all. At the very least, expect less compatibility than discs authored in the customary fashion.
Also, exercise caution regarding the firewire ports on these units. Some devices will be recognized by your computer and/or editing software and some will not. For example, my old Panasonic unit’s firewire port would accept video from my camera, but not from my computer. Unfortunately, AFAIK, the only way to be sure is to actually test the unit, unless the product’s marketing materials specifically address the firewire issues.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
David,
Just a word of caution, here. It sounds like you are planning on dumping raw footage onto DVD for display/archival reasons.
If you ever intend to edit said footage, then dumping to disc now is a bad decision. I’ll spare you the boring technical details, but you will be better off dumping to an external hard drive and saving as DV avi files. If you’re using an HDV camera, then capturing/dumping to .m2T or similar on a hard drive is still better than dumping to SD DVD.
The only way an external drive wouldn’t be a better solution now is if the camera originally recorded the footage as highly compressed mpeg2 video.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
Do a Revert-to-Original on the shorter assets and then set the transcoding bit rate for them.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
DVD is Standard Definition. For both PAL and NTSC, the DVD frame sizes match the frame sizes for DV.
Creating a DV avi from Premiere is probably best, because you can let Encore automatically transcode the avi file to get the highest bit rate for the space available on the blank DVD. If you transcode in Premiere, then you have to do all of the bit budgeting yourself.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
-
I know that “netiquette” requires us to ignore grammatical and spelling mistakes, but unless you do a better job of punctuating your sentences and organizing your thoughts, it’s going to be hard for anyone to understand what you really need.
That said, I’ll take a guess at a solution for you.
It sounds to me like you have thumbnail buttons that only show a black frame because your timelines (or is it chapters?) fade up from black. To fix that, you can set a poster frame for each timeline/chapter. Put the cursor (the CTI) over the frame you want to be seen in the button, right-click it and choose Set Poster Frame.
Your other issue is pretty simple to fix. Set your intro video as First Play (right-click its timeline in the Project panel) and then set its end action to point to the main menu.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0