Jeff Bellune
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George is on the right track. All of what he asked about would be helpful info. Also good would be what version of Encore you are using.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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First, let me say that an AVID –> ProCoder workflow is not very “Encore-friendly”. There are issues and associated workarounds, but life is harder than it has to be.
Secondly, though, I may have some good news for you. Rather than base your decision on what you see in the Encore preview, burn an RW disc (no coasters) and test the DVD on a hardware DVD player and an interlaced television. For now, keep everything lower field first. You should get silky-smooth motion with no artifacts. If the TV test doesn’t work, then you can investigate other solutions.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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For a single-layer DVD: At 7 Mbps, you can get about an hour and a half. At 4 Mbps, you can get close to 2 1/2 hours. The audio would have to be Dolby Digital to fit that much video content on a single-layer DVD-5.
You can approximately double those numbers for a dual-layer DVD-9.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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First problem:
When you import an image as an asset, even a .psd file, all transparency is lost. To do what you want, you need to import your .psd as a menu in order to preserve transparency. Then alt+drag your .avi file to make it a motion background.
Second problem:
You have to render the motion menu before the video will play. You can do that from the File menu or from the Preview window.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Well, if I did have any info on it I would be bound by NDA and couldn’t tell you; if I didn’t have any info on it I couldn’t tell you because I wouldn’t have any info on it.
Helpful answer, wasn’t it? 😀
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[Arizona Artist] “Can anyone help???”
🙂 I’ll try.
The 16019 error means that you have either renamed, deleted or moved a file that Encore is expecting to find. It is usually caused by replacing or renaming assets instead of removing and reimporting as should be done.
It can be caused by the use of odd characters, and it may show up if you have a very long path to one or more files. By long path I mean something like: C:\Captured TV Shows\Dramas\Emmy Nominated\Broadcast\HiDef\Rerun\After9\Wednesdays\January\1990 to 1995\With Really Bad Acting\TVShowOne.mpg
What version of Encore are you using? How did you do the conversion? What program was used to create the files that you imported into Encore? What file format was used (.avi, .mpg, .m2v, .mp3, .wav, etc.)?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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You’re welcome. Glad it worked out for your project.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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If you burned a DVD-5 (Single-layer, 4.7 GB), then if there is much motion at all in any part of your video, you will see softening and artifacts. 1:56 is a lot to put on a DVD-5, and the low bit rate that is needed to make that much video fit on the disc will not stand up to motion or lots of detail.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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[Michael Goldberg] “The original material was field rendered (or was video captures which have fields) out of AE. When I set the Field order in the encoder settings to Progressive…”
In general, if your source video is field-based, you want to transcode as field-based.
There are technical discussions available on the ‘net if you want the gory details, but the video that is stored on an NTSC DVD-Video disc is stored as 29.97 fps interlaced video. To view the interlaced fields as progressive frames (like through the component outputs of a DVD player that supports progressive playback), the player has to internally de-interlace the video before sending it out. So there is no advantage to rendering or transcoding interlaced source video as progressive if you are going to DVD-Video.
[Michael Goldberg] “If I use the lower field setting (either with or without the deinterlace button checked), the motion on all players looks good, but I get an ugly distortion around the edges – exactly the same way after effects footage looks when it’s deinterlaced prior to rendering with fields.”
Can you post a screenshot of this? I suspect that you have a fairly long program (more than 1.5 hours on a DVD-5 or more than 3 hours on a DVD-9) and you may be seeing mpeg encoding artifacts that are the result of a too-low bitrate in high-motion scenes.
So, how long is the program? What encoder settings did you use? How did you connect the DVD players to the monitor? Hopefully we can eliminate some variables and get to a good-looking disc that plays well on most/all players.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Try burning the project to an RW disc (no coasters) and see if the problem appears on the burned disc. I’ve heard of a few cases where the random red frame only appears in Encore’s preview.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0