Jeff Bellune
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Johnny,
Try exporting as an .avi (DV or HuffYUV) out of Avid and then letting Encore handle the transcoding. One of the beauties of Encore is its Automatic Transcoding, which is 90% of the time a set-it-and-forget-it operation for the author. Encore picks the best compression settings based on the amount of content in your project. The MainConcept transcoder that is used by Encore (and Premiere Pro) is one of the industry’s best. [Insert nod here to those who swear by CCE]
If you don’t want to do the whole 1:48, then export a representative sample from Avid and try that. However, at 1:48 on a DVD-5, you may start to see some artifacting that you won’t see with shorter program lengths. That will be true with any transcoder limited by that much material on a single-layer DVD. But you’ll have to look hard. 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Try making each of the short clips a button transition for the button that takes you to the next menu. Delete the timelines that contain the assets, then link the assets to the Transition tab on the Button properties sheet.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Some factors that affect disc playback:
-Brand and type of blank media
-Burn speed
-Maximum data rate of the transcoded video
-Make and model of computer DVD drives
-Firmware version of computer DVD drives
-Software used to play back DVD
-Computer system configuration, including bus speed and DMA settings
-Make and model of hardware DVD playersHope this helps,
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Can you build a disc image or a set of DVD Folders?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Yes.
You will have to make the animated buttons (and the video clips within them) part of the background video that you create in AE.
The advantage is that you can show any video segment you want in the buttons, and they can even be of different lengths and can loop at different times for as long as your background video plays.
The disadvantage is that it’s more work for you and less work for Encore. 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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In the Layers panel in Encore, poke out the eyeballs of the video thumbnail (%) buttons to turn off their visibility. The subpicture highlight will still work even though the rest of the button set is not visible.
Does that give you what you want?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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For options 1 and 2, you need one copy of the video and 2 audio tracks in an Encore timeline. Audio track 1 contains music and VO, audio track 2 contains just music. You need to mixdown the audio for both tracks outside of Encore.
Without knowing exactly what you mean by “graphics”, I can’t say for sure whether you need another copy of the video program to create the “no graphics” clip. If your graphics are subtitles only, then you won’t need another copy. If they are something else, then you will.
Create the audio for options 3 and 4 the same way you do for options 1 and 2.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Try setting the Loop Point to the time that you first want the buttons to appear.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0