Jeff Bellune
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The next culprit to check would be Chapter Playlists. Do you have any, and if so, how many? More than 19 from a single timeline can generate this error.
Next possible issue: Do you have any video clips or slides in a slideshow that are less than 2 seconds long? If so, make them longer.
How are we doing so far?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Do you have a looping motion menu (or several of them)? Check to see that absolutely no overrides are set anywhere in your project. You don’t need them. If you think you do, post back here and explain why, and one or more of us will be happy to show you why you don’t need them. 🙂
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Subpicture highlights are only 2-bit colors plus transparency. That limits you to a solid color shape. You can combine up to 3 solid-color shapes for a single button highlight, but that’s as far as you can go.
Images, mask feathers, effects, etc. from Photoshop can’t be used for the highlights directly.
To get around this, you can create duplicate menus that are activated automatically when the audience navigates to a button on the original menu. The duplicate menu can contain the image that you wanted to use as the highlight in place of the button on the original menu.
-Jeff
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[Kentfry] “Does anyone know when Adobe will add HD encoding to Encore?”
Yep. Adobe does. For everyone else, anyone who knows can’t say and anyone who says can’t know.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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What version of Encore?
In 1.0, the order of timelines on the finished disc is determined by the inverse order of creation in the Encore project.
In 1.5, the order of timelines on the finished disc is determined by the actual order of creation in the Encore project.
In 2.0, the behavior is similar to 1.5, with the exception that you can specify the first timeline on the finished disc by setting the Main Timeline control on the Disc Properties panel.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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What version of Encore? Are you exporting from Avid as QT ref files or self-contained QT mov files?
If in version 1.5 you are trying to use QT ref files, they are not supported. Use self-contained QT mov files.
-Jeff
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NTSC .m2v files work great on my system (and many others). If it was a bug, it would be reproducible across multiple platforms, which it is not.
Since you didn’t answer any of my questions from my last post, can I assume you are done with NTSC files and will stick with PAL, and that the issue is resolved?
-Jeff
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That rules out 704×480 and/or something other than 29.97 fps.
Do you have any version of the DivX codec installed on your system? Older reports of other possible conflicting software include more recent MS Intellipoint drivers (v. 4.1 should be OK).
Do you have Premiere Pro 2? It has the same playback engine as Encore, so you could import the m2v files into Premiere and see if you can play them back properly in PPro. If they work OK in PPro, then export DV or HuffYUV avi files from Premiere for use in Encore.
Failing that, I would recommend converting the m2v files to DV or HuffYUV avi files using dvd2avi and then importing those into Encore.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Encore is fussy about .m2v files. I still need to know the frame size and frame rate.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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What is the frame size/frame rate of the ripped .m2v files? Can you play them separately in a media player?
What program did you use to rip? Settings for the rip (raw, demux, etc.)?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0