Jeff Bellune
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The feature is called “Sync Button Text and Name”. You can turn it off for each button in the Properties panel. There is not a way yet to turn it off by default.
-Jeff
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I don’t have Encore in front of me, but in the timelines panel or the project panel, there is a column that shows the transcoded file size.
You do not have to “re-add” the transcoded file to a timeline. Once you have the original .avi file on a timeline you are good to go because, as you noted, Encore will point to the new transcoded asset once transcoding is complete.
-Jeff
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4.4 GB on a DVD-5 is too big. I’ll skip the “powers of 10 versus powers of 2 when calculating file sizes” lecture. 🙂 Do a revert to original and let Encore automatically transcode the video asset. That will create transcoded files that will fit on the disc. See how you like the quality. I think you’ll be pleased.
-Jeff
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Hi Benjo,
This is a preview-only problem with Encore 1.x.
If you burn your project to disc (use an RW disc to test), the chapters will be in exactly the right place.
If you don’t like the preview pictures (called poster frames), then set the CTI in the timeline to the frame you want to appear and right-click on a chapter marker. Select Set Poster Frame. The poster frame doesn’t have to be the chapter’s first frame, or even any frame in the chapter. You can pick any frame on the timeline to be a poster frame for any chapter.
-Jeff
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Back atcha, billyj:
Test this – change your display quality to Draft. RT playback will be smooth and you won’t have to render. If you need to see a portion of your creation at full resolution, then set it to render and go get a cup of coffee.
If that is unacceptable to you, then do your moves in AE. If you have the Production Studio, you can even use Dynamic Link to add the AE comp to your PPro sequence so you don’t have to render out of AE.
PPro 2.0 is much more stable with long-form projects than PPro 1.5. If slower rendering is the price to pay for added stability, I’ll make that trade-off any day of the week.
Hardly a mess.
-Jeff
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Your name in red is a flag to you to indicate in which topics you have posted. It’s kind of a visual search assistant.
What codec was used for your source video in Premiere? DV avi? MPEG? DivX? Something else?
What were your project settings in Premiere?
What were your export settings?
Are the titles (captions) composited over video or still images?
I’m considering the possibility that this is caused by having “Optimize Stills” checked in your project and export settings, but that shouldn’t be an issue for the composited titles if they were composited over video clips.
-Jeff
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Try this in Encore:
1. Import both the extracted audio and the multiplexed video file into Encore.
2. Create a new timeline with just the extracted audio.
3. Drop the muxed video file onto the audio timeline. It should start at the end of the audio clip.
4. Move the video file to the beginning of the timeline.
Do you get the whole video portion without trimming the video track?
If not, then try this tool to actually split the streams into 2 different files: one video-only, one audio-only.
I have not tried any of these demuxing tools. I always export as elementary streams, and Encore has handled muxed mpegs that I’ve gotten from other sources very well.
-Jeff
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Then you will have to demux the file external to Encore. If you have Adobe Audition, you can do this easily. If you don’t have Audition then here’s a link to a program that should be able to do that. They have a free trial and $19 to buy it. I have not tried this program myself.
-Jeff
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Create a short quicktime video clip that has the same properties as the quicktime video that you want to use in Encore.
Use AE to convert the short clip to the proper framerate and then import it into Encore. Then import the short clip directly into Encore. Make a timeline for each video then burn the project to an RW disc. Play the disc back with a software DVD player and then again with a hardware DVD player. Which file gives you better quality on the finished disc?
If I had to choose blindly, I would change the frame rate in AE.
-Jeff
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Thanks for the list. It does not appear to be a codec issue.
What version of Encore are you using?
What format was the source audio – .ac3, .mp3 or .wav (or something else)?
You didn’t say, but I am guessing that the video file which gave you trouble had both video and audio in the same file?
What program did you use to encode the video file to mpeg? If you still have the source video, use the encoding program to export the video portion as an .m2v file and the audio portion as a .wav file. Separate video/audio files are best because Encore will demux the video and audio into separate streams anyway when you import an mpeg file that has both audio and video in the same file.
I suggest .wav because version 1.x of Encore didn’t like .ac3 audio that had embedded timecode. Encore 2.0 can handle embedded timecode. If the source audio was .ac3, you could try exporting as .m2v video and .ac3 audio from your encoding program, just be aware that if the resulting .ac3 file has embedded timecode, you could run into the same problem if you aren’t using Encore 2.0.
HTH,
Jeff